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Keyboard-style voice-leading schemata

Following are a number of schemata for keyboard-style voice-leading. Some of these are patterns that are common enough to warrant special…

  • Joey Etamity
    Joey Etamity
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Minuet form

Formal containers in the classical minuet A classical minuet movement typically contains a main minuet , followed by a trio that is very…

  • Joey Etamity
    Joey Etamity
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Modulation

Tonicization occurs when a chord or short succession of chords are borrowed from another key in order to emphasize—or tonicize —a chord in…

  • Joey Etamity
    Joey Etamity
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Generating Roman numerals from a figured bass line

Both bass lines and root progressions are important for the study and mastery of tonal harmony. Most of our work will focus on the bass…

  • Joey Etamity
    Joey Etamity
2 MIN READ
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Sonata form – exposition types

The exposition module of a sonata movement comes at or near the beginning of a sonata-form movement. Only an introduction (technically, a…

  • Joey Etamity
    Joey Etamity
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Realizing a figured bass in strict basso continuo style

The following video demonstrates the realization of a figured bass line in strict basso continuo style.

  • Joey Etamity
    Joey Etamity
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Using Variations Audio Timeliner

The following video explains the basics of using Variations Audio Timeliner for annotating musical form on a recording. (I made this video…

  • Joey Etamity
    Joey Etamity
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About Open Music Theory

Inverted (or flipped) music theory This textbook is meant to support active student engagement with music in the theory classroom. That…

  • Joey Etamity
    Joey Etamity
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Chromatically altered subdominant chords

The most common chromatically altered subdominant chords (aside from the applied dominant of V) are the Neapolitan chord and the various…

  • Joey Etamity
    Joey Etamity
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Analyzing poetry

This resource created by Jonathan Sircy, Department of English, Charleston Southern University. What is poetry? We can distinguish poetry…

  • Joey Etamity
    Joey Etamity
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