How Harmony Works part 2

Natural Minor Scale

Minor scale with SD7 a step below the tonic causing no leading tone- Traditional Aeolian mode

W H W W H W W

Natural minor scale pattern

Harmonic Minor Scale

Raises SD 7 of natural minor by a half step to create a leading tone

Melodic Minor Scale

Raises or lowers the six and seventh scale degrees

Modulation

The act of changing from one tonal center to another

Common tone modulation

Two chords connected through a single note to bridge distance between two keys

Enharmonic Modulation

Key change where a chord is respelled enharmonically

Parallel key modulation

Technique where a song shifts between major and minor key that shares the same root

Complete cadential progression

Cadence: T - P - D - T

Incomplete Cadential Progression

cadence: ? - D - T

Half- Cadential Progression

Cadence: ? - D … T

Applied Dominant

Major or dominant seventh chord used to temporary make a diatonic chord sound like tonic without modulating to a new key

Pivot Chord

A musical chord shared between two different keys used to smoothly modulate

Related Keys

Key signatures that differ by one accidental and are used to modulate