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Note Values and Basic Notation In T
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The most common rhythmic notes—ea
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Eighth Notes Just like the scientis
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Triplets are the most common uneven
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Time Signatures In This Chapter ◆
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Quarter-Note Time Signatures Time S
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Subdividing a 6/8 measure into two
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Melodies In This Chapter ◆ Creati
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melody we’ll look at is just one
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Pachelbel’s Canon in D Our final
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the C Major triad notes—G and E
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Conversely, if you’re writing in
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A sixteen-measure melody, consistin
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Chromatic intervals—notes that ar
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to master a single melodic line bef
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Chords In This Chapter ◆ Understa
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In most cases, the type of chord is
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chord is frequently used to set up
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Other Extensions While the seventh
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Chord Progressions In This Chapter
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Key Signature Chords D♭ D E♭ E
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If you’re playing in a minor key,
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Unlike the I-IV progression, this o
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IV-I-IV-V As this progression shows
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To demonstrate, let’s look at the
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Mary Had a Little Lamb Finally, let
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The Least You Need to Know ◆ Ever
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Phrases and Form In This Chapter
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Bridge The bridge is kind of a brea
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Classical Music Forms Within the ge
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4 Part Accompanying Learn how to tr
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168 Part 4: Accompanying Working fr
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15 Chapter Harmony and Counterpoint
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Living in Harmony Harmony is like p
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Tip The succession of root position
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When you’re writing harmony, ther
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When you put your two melodies toge
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What we have so far is shown here:
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Avoid big leaps. Avoid Dissonant In
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Exercise 15-2 Create two-voice harm
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208 Part 5: Embellishing As you can
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Special Notation In This Chapter
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The Long and the Short of It Back i
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Glissandos Whereas turns and trills
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Notating lyrics; split words in syl
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266 Appendix A atonality Music that
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268 Appendix A downbeat The major b
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272 Appendix A staff An assemblage
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