Announcements

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Announcements

• Mini-Homework 11 due Friday
• Turn this one in to your AI
• Quiz 4 NEXT Wednesday, November 6

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Harmonic Function

• On Tuesday we discussed harmonic functions in
  terms of planets in orbit around a given tonic

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Harmonic Function

• An analogy can also be made between the basic
  parts of speech and the various harmonic
  functions
• Each word plays a role in forming a sentence
  similarly, each chord plays a role in forming a
  harmonic phrase

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Harmonic Function

• Consider the following sentence
• The scary witch frightened the young children.
• Adj. ? Noun ? Verb ? Adj. ? Noun
• (Subject) (Dir.
  Obj.)
• Now consider the following harmonic progression
• I ? viio ? I ? vi ? ii ? V 7 ? I
• T? D ?T ? P ? P ? D ? T

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Harmonic Function

• The
• scary
• witch
• frightened
• the
• young
• children.
• Identify all of the Adjectives

• I
• ii
• iii
• IV
• V
• vi
• viio
• Identify all of the Pre-dominant Functions

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Harmonic Function

• The
• scary ü
• witch
• frightened
• the
• young ü
• children.
• Identify all of the Adjectives

• I
• ii ü
• iii
• IV ü
• V
• vi ü
• viio
• Identify all of the Pre-dominant Functions

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Non-Chord Tones (course packet, p. 118)

• Sing the following scale-degree pattern
• 5 6 5 4 3 4 3 2 1
• Now, Marians students sing the pattern while
• Karels students sing 1 and hold it out
• Dans students sing 3 and hold it out
• Jonathans students sing 5 and hold it out

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Non-Chord Tones (course packet, p. 118)

• Tones that are not a member of the chord (Root,
  third, fifth, seventh) at any given point
• There are several types of non-chord tones for
  T109 we will deal with two basic types
• Neighbor tones
• Passing tones

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Non-Chord Tones (course packet, p. 118)

• Neighbor tones are used to embellish a single
  tone, and may appear above or below the tone
• At example A, the neighbor tone A embellishes the
  chord-tone G of the I chord in C-major
• At example B, the note G is a chord-tone of both
  the I chord and the V 6 chord in C-major

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Non-Chord Tones (course packet, p. 118)

• Passing tones are used to fill the space between
  two other tones. Usually the space being filled
  is a third, either ascending or descending, and
  the passing tone is given whatever scale-degree
  lies in between
• At example A, the passing tone F fills the space
  between the chord-tones G and E
• At example B, the note G is a chord tone of the V
  6 chord, and the note E is a chord tone of the vi
  6 chord. The passing-tone F fills the space
  between these notes

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Non-Chord Tones (course packet, p. 118)

• Non-Chord tones usually appear in a metrically
  unaccented position
• This usually means that the non-chord tone
  appears on the second (or third) subdivision of a
  given beat, or a weak beat within the given meter

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Non-Chord Tones / Melodic Harmonization

• Consider the following melody
• Identify the implied harmonies for each measure,
  using Roman numerals
• Identify the harmonic function of each chord,
  labeled T, P, or D
• Identify all NCTs in the melody either as
  passing tones or neighbor tones (labeled PT or NT)

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Announcements

• Mini-Homework 11 due Friday
• Turn this one in to your AI
• Quiz 4 NEXT Wednesday, November 6