Music Fundamentals A Balanced Approach

Theory Trainer

Exercise 16aCadence drawing.

Half Cadence

In a half cadence, aphrase ends with a dominant chord, which is usually preceded by the tonic, the supertonic,
or the subdominant chord.
Listen to your instructor play the following half cadences.

As the name implies, the half cadence sounds incomplete.

TRACK 100

Listening: Variations on Paisiello’s “Nel Cor Più Non Mi Sento” (L.v. Beethoven)

Exercise 4—Class Exercise

Listen to Track 100 or your instructor play the beginning of Beethoven’s Variations on “Nel cor più non mi
sento.”

Six Variations on Paisiello’s “Nel Cor Più Non Mi Sento” (L.v. Beethoven)

Antecedent phrase

GM: I V7 I I6 ii6 V I

Half Cadence

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EM: I V Em: i V

MODULE 16

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