The Tierce de Picardie and the harmonic minor trap. Digging a little deeper into cadences, the importance of horizontal thinking and voice leading in minor keys, plus a cherry on the top - well, at the end....
Developing musical understanding through analytical listening
Ten questions with a rhythm grid and embedded clip, exploring composition devices (ostinato and pedal), note values (crotchet and quaver), identifying rhythmic patterns and matching staff notation with rhythm grids, recognising features of improvisation.
Ten questions with a score fragment and embedded clip, exploring tuned and untuned orchestral percussion, woodwind and brass timbres, melodic movement (sequential, chromatic, conjunct), harmonic devices (pedal note), and rhythmic devices (syncopation, dotting, triplets).
Questions on intervals, tonality, timbre recognition, dynamics, metre, Roman numerals for harmony, rhythmic devices, degrees of the scale, ornamentation, tempo, voice types, keys
Ten questions with a score fragment and embedded clip, exploring melodic movement (chromatic, sequential), timbre recognition, dynamics, compositional devices (ostinato, sequence, drone, pedal), woodwind instrument types.
Perfect cadences in minor keys and the phrygian cadence. Exercises to remind students about visually sharpening the third in chord V in minor keys, introducing the phrygian cadence, establishing the all important contrary motion of the outside parts, and finding opportunities to use it.
Focus: Developing students' understanding of the versatility of functional harmony, making use of I, IV, V and VI in chordal ostinati. Hands-on exercises in performing, improvising, composing and analytical listening. Resources include teaching materials, student exercises, progress and assessment tools, 'do now' tasks and supporting teacher notes.
Five composition workshops with supporting analytical listening resources that focus on functional harmonic frameworks, two and four chord tricks, the use of extended chords, parallel harmony, circle of 5ths progressions, and using harmony to create contrast and define structures.
Five composition workshops with supporting analytical listening resources that focus on characteristics of memorable melodies, phrase structures, functional harmonic connections, question and answer (balanced) phrasing, sequential melodies, 8 and 16 bar melodic structures.
