Chapter 7-8 Flashcards
What is a sequence?
A pattern that is repeated immediately in the same voice but that begins on a different pitch class.
What is a tonal sequence?
A sequence that stays in a single key
What is a real sequence?
A sequence that transposes to a new key
What is imitation?
A pattern which occurs between two or more voices
What is real imitation?
Imitation which occurs in a different voice
What is a modified sequence?
A sequence where the repetitions of the pattern are neither tonal nor real.
What is the definition of the circle-of-fifths progression?
A progression which consists of a series of roots related by descending fifths and or descending fourths.
What is prolongation?
The process of expanding the domain of a chord through the use of one or more subsidiary chords.
What is this an example of?:
[ii]—>[V]—>(1)
Pre-dominant chord
What is a plagal progression?
When IV proceeds to I
Avoid _____ diminished triads.
Root position
What are three uses of triads in first inversion?
1) to improve the contour of the bass line
2) to provide a greater variety of pitches in the bass line
3) to lessen the weight of V and I chords that do not serve as the goals of harmonic motion
What is the usual technique used to avoid parallel fifths in a sixth-chord passage?
To put the root of each chord in the melody.
What is counterpoint?
The combining of relatively independent musical lines
What period is counterpoint seen in most?
Baroque (roughly 1600-1750)
After 1750, counterpoint is mostly found in _____.
Outer voices
What is a canon?
A piece of music in which the motives and figures appearing in one voice are reproduced in another at a fixed interval of time and pitch from the first.
What is it a whole series of parallel first inversion triads to get from chord X to Y?
Sixth cords
What is a canon that is perpetual?
A round
Canons and rounds make use of a special type of counterpoint called _____ counterpoint
Imitative
Can counterpoint have similar rhythms?
Yes
What is a piece in which each voice state a short team (the subject) in turn, after which it is tossed about among the voices, fragmented, and developed.
Fugue
