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ANSWERING THEMES easily
This helps to practice and answer  themes, especially the slow and periodic ones. – Use for this a clear theme with basic functional harmonic structure, like the one above by Frank Sawyer. Consider only the antecedent (the part until the first cadence/ending) Answer the theme each time starting from a)  another position: the third, the…
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Worksheet for Harmonization
from video HARMONIZATION – PRINCIPLES and First Steps in Baroque/Classical Style – Live Lesson, part 1
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Memory Exercise (Theme Recaps)
– short theme – textural contrast between theme and free parts  – keep it diatonic –  theme can reappear alightly different (  with repetition, or  in another register) –  Late Renaissence as reference. But the principle is somehow universal. Depends on which style you start in. You can practice jazz with this! The theme in…
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EARTRAINING Reharmonization
This is a prima vista harmonization. What did I do differently? Answer on dm. AUDIO https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LHuYxacAGzaq9PnStmZOn49uYLGZ1nRY/view?usp=sharing
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More on the useless “Function vs. Partimento” intrigue
When I speak that there are authentic partimento FANATICS I really mean it. I got literally students who did last year left after me mentioning functions. Â They would then left the most important voices regarding concert improvisation in Germany, Nederland and England then? But this has a reason to be: function theory is often taught…
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Comon Figured Bass Cadences – Play on Piano
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1k3SrD-Zxhxr62fZilWbrSCHrzGS8EFnG/view?usp=share_link
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Inside the Sacred Machine (exclusive album teaser, obscure music))
Example of comissioned work.
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S > Dp bei Schutz
Die iii Stufe (Dp) kommt hier ausdrücklich vor. Kein “moderner” Klang in der Zeit Bach´s. Danach ein Fall von S>D, was danach als Sp>D ofter vorkommt. Beobachte auch die Endung ohne Terz.
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Bach´s Son Improvisation Exercises (Reference for Improv.)
Priceless material.