Harmony and Tonality
Harmony
Diatonic Harmony;
By definition, diatonic harmony is created exclusively from whatever melodic recourses we choose to create within. This means that it is not like chromatic harmony when it’s only created from scales from within certain keys. It is more open, and you have the freedom to put in whatever you please and experiment when writing with diatonic harmonies.
Chromatic Harmony;
Chromatic harmonies are defined as chords witch are not in the same key as the music, that are used to create harmonies. There are lots of classical composers who use chromatic harmonies in their music like Bach, Wagner the organist, Sweelinck and many more.
Modulation;
Modulation refers to a musical piece that changes the key or the tone of the peace somewhere in the song. So when the piece of music changes key, modulation is taking place. Modulation is also found a lot in the older classical music but not found so much in more common chart or popular music.
Resolution;
Resolution means ending on the root note or chord, the first degree of the key signature. for example, if you are playing in the key of C major and you hang on a G, which is the 5 chord, it creates tension and your ear wants to hear the "resolution," the C major chord, or the completion with the tonic. There are different ways to resolve and end pieces of music like ending on a perfect cadence or on a interrupted cadence which would be slightly more unexpected.
By definition, diatonic harmony is created exclusively from whatever melodic recourses we choose to create within. This means that it is not like chromatic harmony when it’s only created from scales from within certain keys. It is more open, and you have the freedom to put in whatever you please and experiment when writing with diatonic harmonies.
Chromatic Harmony;
Chromatic harmonies are defined as chords witch are not in the same key as the music, that are used to create harmonies. There are lots of classical composers who use chromatic harmonies in their music like Bach, Wagner the organist, Sweelinck and many more.
Modulation;
Modulation refers to a musical piece that changes the key or the tone of the peace somewhere in the song. So when the piece of music changes key, modulation is taking place. Modulation is also found a lot in the older classical music but not found so much in more common chart or popular music.
Resolution;
Resolution means ending on the root note or chord, the first degree of the key signature. for example, if you are playing in the key of C major and you hang on a G, which is the 5 chord, it creates tension and your ear wants to hear the "resolution," the C major chord, or the completion with the tonic. There are different ways to resolve and end pieces of music like ending on a perfect cadence or on a interrupted cadence which would be slightly more unexpected.
Tonality
Tonality:
The tonality of a piece is the key that it’s in so what scales build up the melodies and what are the root notes and rhythms/chords being played.
Tonal;
Tonal music is the opposite of atonal music. Unlike atonal music, tonal music dose have a key and dose often have melodies and more all from the same key so that it does not sound like its clashes, it instead sounds very nice. Almost all popular and widely listed to music dose have a key so that means that it is tonal.
Atonality;
Atonality is when a piece lacks a sense of key and there is no tonal structure to the piece. In atonal music there are often huge leaps between notes and huge leaps in dynamics. Atonal pieces are very unusual and I dot think they sound very pleasant. Atonal music is often used in horror films to create tension and create different moods while things are happening. However since atonal music has no sense of tone not many people listen to because it’s not catchy and there are no melodies that will get stuck in your head.
Bitonality;
A bitonal piece of music is a piece of music is a piece of music that has to different tonalities init instead of one. To be more precise it is defined as the use of more than one key at once. Bitonal music is very rare in this day and age, but has been used in the past by many classical musicians.
Polytonality;
Polytonality will not be found in much modern music but it is when a composer puts in two or more keys at the same time instead of just one. Fro instance a player would play in the key of C meanwhile another player is playing in the key of Eb major. Each key used has a specific tonal centre. The specific tonal centre is usury the firs not in the key. By using more than one key the composer creates multi tone centres witch could make the music interesting or could make the music sound slightly chaotic.
The tonality of a piece is the key that it’s in so what scales build up the melodies and what are the root notes and rhythms/chords being played.
Tonal;
Tonal music is the opposite of atonal music. Unlike atonal music, tonal music dose have a key and dose often have melodies and more all from the same key so that it does not sound like its clashes, it instead sounds very nice. Almost all popular and widely listed to music dose have a key so that means that it is tonal.
Atonality;
Atonality is when a piece lacks a sense of key and there is no tonal structure to the piece. In atonal music there are often huge leaps between notes and huge leaps in dynamics. Atonal pieces are very unusual and I dot think they sound very pleasant. Atonal music is often used in horror films to create tension and create different moods while things are happening. However since atonal music has no sense of tone not many people listen to because it’s not catchy and there are no melodies that will get stuck in your head.
Bitonality;
A bitonal piece of music is a piece of music is a piece of music that has to different tonalities init instead of one. To be more precise it is defined as the use of more than one key at once. Bitonal music is very rare in this day and age, but has been used in the past by many classical musicians.
Polytonality;
Polytonality will not be found in much modern music but it is when a composer puts in two or more keys at the same time instead of just one. Fro instance a player would play in the key of C meanwhile another player is playing in the key of Eb major. Each key used has a specific tonal centre. The specific tonal centre is usury the firs not in the key. By using more than one key the composer creates multi tone centres witch could make the music interesting or could make the music sound slightly chaotic.
Help from Tom on Key Signatures
In this picture you can see the help that Tom gave me on key signatures. He explained to me how they work and how you can figure them out when you see sharps or flats on the score. Tom taught me one of the variations of the rhymes that help you to remember which notes in the key are sharp and which notes in the key are flat. The rhyme to remember the sharps is: Father Charles Goes Down And Ends Battle. The thyme to remember the flats is simply the same rhyme backwards and it sounds like this: Battle Ends And Down Goes Father Charles. Now that Tom has explained it all to me and written it out as he was explaining it so that I have a visual representation of the key signatures and the shards and flats, I have more of a understanding of what the sharps and flats at the beginning of the score are and what they mean. However I am going to have to go over them all later so that I don’t forget them. I will do some exercises on musician to help me.
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Working on musician
On the first level of key signatures I have been running over some of the simple keys that the music is in then there are sharps and flats on the stave. I have been using the rhyme: Father Charles Goes down and Ends Battle to help me to remember when there are sharps and I have been using the rhyme backwards to remember when there are flats on the key signature. So it sounds like: Battle Ends and down Goes Father Charles. I scored 93 on this exercise so I have decided that I am ready to move up a level. I also went over the drill one more time to see if I could get my score up to 100%. Unfortunately I did the same thing that I did last time witch was get all of the questions right apart from one. So I got 93% again.
In the next section it had a lot of questions that asked what were the relative minors and the relative majors of certain key signatures. I found that these questions I could do very easily but I found the
other questions to be very hard. Some of the other questions were questionsasked me to tell what key signature the picture was on or to put on a sharp ora flat to make it into a certain key. I found this part a lot harder. I think that I need to have a bit more practice on this section to make sure that I really get it into my head. In the screenshot you can see that I got 78 present.
other questions to be very hard. Some of the other questions were questionsasked me to tell what key signature the picture was on or to put on a sharp ora flat to make it into a certain key. I found this part a lot harder. I think that I need to have a bit more practice on this section to make sure that I really get it into my head. In the screenshot you can see that I got 78 present.