The Complete Idiot''s Guide to Music Theory

Chapter 15:Harmony and Counterpoint What we have so far is shown here: 197 Starting to add counterpoint to the first voice. As y ...

Par t 5:Embellishing Note that this approach created eighth notes in the top part when the bottom part is using quarter notes, a ...

Chapter 15:Harmony and Counterpoint Avoid big leaps. Avoid Dissonant Intervals—Unless They Resolve In this case we’re talking ab ...

Exercises Exercise 15-1 Find and correct the voice-leading errors in the following piece of harmony. Par t 5:Embellishing Realiz ...

Chapter 15:Harmony and Counterpoint 201 Exercise 15-2 Create two-voice harmony for the following melody, using half notes and qu ...

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16 Chord Substitutions and Turnarounds In This Chapter ◆Learn how to spice up boring chord progressions with extensions ◆Discove ...

204 Par t 5:Embellishing Chord extensions can make a basic chord sound lush and exotic. There’s noth- ing like a minor seventh o ...

Chapter 16:Chord Substitutions and Turnarounds 205 Altering the Bass Here’s another neat way to make old chords sound new—and al ...

206 Par t 5:Embellishing Examples of compound chords. When you play two chords together like this, you have what’s called a comp ...

Chapter 16:Chord Substitutions and Turnarounds 207 Replacing the I chord (C Major) with the vi (A minor) and the iii (E minor)—l ...

208 Par t 5:Embellishing As you can see in the following table, some of the same substitution rules work with minor as well as m ...

Chapter 16:Chord Substitutions and Turnarounds 209 Substitution Example (for the G7 chord) Diminished chord a third above Minor ...

210 Par t 5:Embellishing Turnarounds Chapter 10 also presented a concept of the phrase-ending cadence.Well, in the fields of jaz ...

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Par t 5:Embellishing Exercises Exercise 16-1 Write out the notes for the following slash chords. 212 Exercise 16-2 Write out the ...

Chapter 16:Chord Substitutions and Turnarounds 213 Exercise 16-6 Add a two-measure turnaround to the following chord progression ...

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17 Special Notation In This Chapter ◆Discover how to notate phrasing with slur marks ◆Find out how to write and play embellished ...

216 Par t 5:Embellishing A tie is made with a small curve, either above or below the note, like this: Two identical notes tied t ...