EARTRAINING 1: Harmony (in progress)

Overview
Curriculum

 🟢 Exclusive pedagogy tested in real life lessons by choir conductor and transcriber for the Yousician App 

🟢 Original examples with different instruments gives you an unity according to my composition praxis

🟢 Careful disposition of harmonic material that triggers the inspiration for your first composition exercises  

 🟢 The course is symmetric to my harmony course: keep theory, practical competence and creativity so close to each other as possible!

Curriculum

  • 12 Sections
  • 6 Lessons
  • 17 Quizzes
  • 0m Duration
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Instructions
1 Lesson1 Quiz
  1. General Instructions
  2. this quiz is here to wish you good luck
Cadences in Major
3 Quizzes
  1. Minor and Major Triads
  2. T,S,D root position – PAC and IAC cadences
  3. Major half-cadence vs. authentic cadence
Cadences in Minor
3 Quizzes
  1. T,S,D root position in minor cadences
  2. T,S,D root position in minor half-cadence vs. authentic cadence. Identify the position
  3. T,S,D root position in minor: Half-cadence
INTRODUCTION to SIXTH-CHORDS
1 Lesson
  1. Root position vs. Sixth Chords in General
SIXTH-CHORDS in Major
1 Lesson2 Quizzes
  1. Primary Sixth-Chords in Major (comming soon)
  2. SIXTH-CHORDS vs. Root Chords
  3. Sixth-Chords Intervals in Free Context
SIXTH-CHORDS in MINOR
1 Lesson1 Quiz
  1. Primary Sixth-Chords in Minor
  2. Sixth-chords vs. Root Chords
4/6 Cadences
2 Lessons2 Quizzes
  1. Cadencial 4/6 Chord
  2. Cadencial 4/6 Chords in Major
  3. Cadencial 4/6 chords in minor (Model)
  4. Cadencial 4/6 Chords in Minor
MODULATION with MAIN FUNCTIONS
2 Quizzes
  1. Modulation to D vs. S
  2. Modulation to Tp vs. Sp
ASSIGNMENT: CHORD CHART TRANSCRIPTION
DIMINISHED CHORDS
1 Quiz
  1. Diminished chords vs. abbreviated dominant seventh chord vs. diminished 7th chords
MAIN FUNCTIONS in TETRADS
2 Quizzes
  1. Tetrads in Triadic Harmony
  2. Triads in Tetradic Harmony
SECONDARY FUNCTIONS
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Using Climax for a Surprising Timbre

Finally i find a very clear example of a technique I used a lot, and in some sense discovered alone. This is: to add a new instrument when another group of instruments reach its peak. 

The attention of the listener is distracted with the tutti, and will be surprised by the way another unexpected sound rises from it.

This is very useful to connect different sections of orquestral music. For the first time i see someone doing this an intention so clear as I did in some pieces. The key here is to use this technique in order to present unexpected timbres and instruments that come “from below” the other tutti of instruments being played.

You can also use this technique in a more conventional way, just adding conventional sounds that were no used before. For example, if the flute was not playing so much in your piece, perhaps the next climax will be the perfect moment to set it in action?

I believe there are many cool examples of this powerful technique, and would be happy to explore it more later, also showing my own examples!

Hear the piece of Fukamachi later to perceive the sound in context, otherwise it is hard to tell how amazhing his idea was.


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