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October 26, 2020

Voice Leading Practices

When both chords are in root position, and the two roots lie a perfect 5th or 4th apart Keep the common tone (the tone shared by both triads) and move the remaining two upper voices stepw...
October 19, 2020

Applying Voice Leading Techniques

Back to the issue of the individual lines within a harmonic accompaniment. While you're no doubt thinking of the way the notes stack "vertically," the line itself is still played "horizontal...
October 12, 2020

Voice Leading in Four-Part Chorale Writing

Voice Leading A chord progression can be viewed in two different ways. On one hand it can be viewed as a succession of vertical chords, while on the other it can be viewed as a combination o...
October 5, 2020

Common Triad

Chords Basic chords consist of just three notes, arranged in thirds, called a triad. The most common triads are constructed from notes plucked from the underlying scale, each note two steps ...
September 28, 2020

Interval Inversions

Viewed overall, there are three basic families of intervals: perfect, major/minor, and augmented/diminished. These are related in a special way. Each interval has what is called its inversio...
September 21, 2020

Scales. Part 3: Exotic Scales

Neapolitan Modes Their name comes from the fact that they all have a flat second degree, like the Phrygian mode. You can turn any mode or scale into a Neapolitan simply by flattening the sec...

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Voice Leading Practices