Tonality Flashcards
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Tonality features of Movement One
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The Chorale dominates throughout, meaning that the Chorale’s key (D major) is of major structural importance
For variety, other related keys are employed with:
-E minor (b. 63-64)
-B minor (b. 65-66)
-F# minor (b. 67-68)
-A major (b. 90)
2
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Tonality features of Movement Two
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Also in D major, there are again modulations to closely related keys (A major b. 27) and (B minor b. 46)
3
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Tonality features of Movement Eight
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Movement Eight provides insights into Bach’s ingenious handling of a theme that could have been largely harmonised in D, e.g. perfect cadences in A major (b. 5 and 9) and imperfect cadences in E minor (b. 10)
4
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Examples for Wider listening for Bach Tonality
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