Chapter 8 - Harmonic Composition 1: Fundamentals

visible reminder

Road map- The ________ of the menu of chord member choices, appropriate doublings, and resolutions.

soprano

The ________, alto, and tenor need to have an available range of two octaves.

non chord tones

Part- writing- It requires knowledge of melody, interval, triads, seventh chords, cadences, ________, figured bass, chromatic harmony, resolution tendencies, counterpoint, and progressional norms.

Part-writing

It requires knowledge of melody, interval, triads, seventh chords, cadences, non-chord tones, figured bass, chromatic harmony, resolution tendencies, counterpoint, and progressional norms

Motion

The direction the melody moves in relation to the bass line

Contrary motion

Moves the melody in the opposite direction of the bass

Oblique motion

When one voice remains on the same note and the other moves in either direction

Similar motion

When the bass and the soprano move in the same direction but at different intervals

Parallel motion

Where the soprano and bass move in the same direction and at the same interval

Crossed voices

Where you cant write the soprano voice lower than the alto or the alto voice lower than the tenor within the same chord

Overlap

Where you dont want to write one voice higher than another voice has been in the previous chord

Road map

The visible reminder of the menu of chord member choices, appropriate doublings, and resolutions

Unequal fifths

The motion from the diminished fifth to a perfect fifth, especially in the soprano-bass pair

Writtten with stem up

Soprano and tenor

Written with stem down

Alto and bass

Always the melody

Soprano

bass in higher range

the soprano is usually in the high end of her range

soprano is high

tenor is high

first choice

double the root

second choice

double the fifth

doubling the third

dont except for minor chords

double a tendency tone

never

resolutions

• If V goes to I (i) or VI (vi), then Ti resolves upward to Do.

• If vii°/vii°7 or V7 goes to I (i) or VI (vi), then Ti resolves to Do and Fa resolves to Mi.

• If you have a seventh chord of any kind, then the seventh of the chord resolves downward or holds until it can.