Music Fundamentals A Balanced Approach

MODULE 9 216 “Moonlight” Sonata in C sharp minor (L.v. Beethoven) “Die Forelle” (“The Trout”) in D flat major (F. Schubert) “El ...

WORKBOOK: MODULE 7 Key _____________________ Meter _____________________ “Uguisu” (“Nightingale”) (T. Inoue), Japanese folk mel ...

Finding the Tonic Note in a Minor Key with Sharps To find the tonic note (also called the key or key tone) for a minor scalekey ...

WORKBOOK: MODULE 7 NAME: “Georgia on My Mind” (H. Carmichael) Key _____________________ Meter _____________________ On the sta ...

Exercise 1—Class Exercise Draw the major (M) and minor (m) tonic notes for the following key signatures and label the keys below ...

WORKBOOK: MODULE 7 Exercise 7.7 Transpose the second phrase of Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” from the original key of D major to Bbma ...

Finding the Tonic Note in a Minor Key with Flats To find the tonic note in a minor scale using a key signature with flats,locate ...

191 Melodies in Compound Meter Let’s look at the piece, “A Little Hunting Song” by Robert Schumann, a short descriptive piece wr ...

Exercise 3—Class Exercise Draw the major (M) and minor (m) tonic notes for the following key signatures and label the keys below ...

TRACK 66—CLASS EXERCISE Listen to “A Little Hunting Song” by Schumann or another piece in 6/8. Discuss accents, staccatos, and t ...

Parallel Major and Minor Key Signatures Major and minor keys that share the same tonic notes are called parallel keys. Notice: ...

As a result of these two concurrent rhythmic patterns, there are two ways of counting compound time signatures. The first metho ...

222 MODULE 9 F/d Bb/g Eb/c Ab/f Db/bb C#/a# C/a G/e D/b A/f# Gb/eb Cb/ab E/c# B/g# F#/d# Circle of Fifths - Major and Minor Keys ...

Notice: There are twomain beats (pulses) in each measure (the top number, 6, when divided by 3 will equal 2). The main pulse is ...

Theory Trainer Exercise 9bSharps, flats, and key signatures. Three Forms of Minor Scales Every minor scale has three forms: Nat ...

Second Method of Counting Compound Meter In the second methodof counting rhythms in compound meter, the lower number of the time ...

Method 3:Memorize the number of sharps or flats, if any, in the minor key signatures. As we saw earlier, A minor is the only min ...

Method 2: Counting compound meter—utilizing the divided beat as a pulse note Rests Rests in compound meter are given the same co ...

The melodicform also has the same key signature as the natural and harmonic forms; unlike the other two forms, the ascendingmelo ...

Beams To show the pulse note in compound meter, notes are beamed into groups in the following ways: Beam notes of similar value ...