Harmony And Tonality Flashcards
Triad
Chord with Three Notes
Concord
- Chord where all notes seem to ‘agree’ with eachother
- Feels at rest and complete in itself
Discord
- chord where all the notes seems to ‘disagree’ or clash giving an unsettled feel
Diatonic Harmony
- Uses notes that belong to the key
Chromatic Harmony
Uses notes from outside key to give notes more ‘colour’
Cadence
-Formed by two chords at the end of a passage of music
Perfect Cadence
- Sounds as though the music has come to an end
- A perfect cadence is formed by the chords V-I
Interrupted Cadence
- Are ‘surprise’ cadences
- Think going to hear perfect cadence, but you get a minor chord instead
Imperfect Cadence
- sounds unfinished
- sound as though they want to carry on to complete the music properly
- imperfect cadence ends on chord V
Plagal Cadence
- sound finished
- often used at the end of hymns and sung to ‘Amen’
- plagal cadence formed by the chords IV-I
Tierce de Picardie
-Final piece in minor key ends with a major chord
Tonal
-Music is in a major or minor key
Atonal
-Music is not related to a tonic note and therefore has no sense of key
Modal
-Music is in a mode
Modulate
-When music changes key
Drone
- Held or repeated chord
- Usually a bare fifth, throughout a passage of music
Pedal
- Single note held on or repeated in the bass
- An inverted pedal is a sustained or repeated note in a higher register
Ground bass
-Used in baroque music where a bass part is repeated throughout the piece
