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hello everyone I would like to open a discussion on the classification of chords based on their sound and the role they have within the scale. if I am not mistaken, the scale can be synthesi...
Good morning, I am doing a harmonic analysis of a piece (Georgy porgy) it is in the key of Em, there is a B7(#5) chord present, I cannot understand which scale it is taken from thanks
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Hello everyone Sorry, I didn't quite understand in which occasions the third can be doubled and when it is instead forbidden could someone please explain it to me? thanks a lot
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Are there methodologies or "tricks" to reach a point where one can write more complex counterpoints with ease? Roberto Altieri mentioned quadruple counterpoint, any ideas?
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Hello everyone. At the top of exercise 7 on modulations, there is this text: augmented note: VII. degree - diminished note: IV. degree. I am not sure I understood what it means: that if I fi...
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Good morning, can someone help me play this bass line with modulations?
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Davi
Good evening everyone, I need a hand harmonizing this bass line as I haven't quite understood how to do it. Thank you for your availability
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Good evening gentlemen, I kindly ask you to advise me on how to build a piece starting from two chords; if I were to add a blues scale, on the tonic of the first chord, a walking bass in whi...
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Hello everyone. I have a problem that I cannot solve. I received the Harmony exercises from a classmate (N* 10 Basses by Jacopo Napoli) and looking at his notes, I notice some Modulations. I...
Good morning guys, I would like to know more regarding the development of this suspension. I cannot find chapters concerning this suspension in A. De Ninno's harmony method (or am I mistaken...
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Stratocaster7
hello, I would like to teach scales, chords, and harmony in an easy and intuitive way for children, could you please suggest some books? thank you
Hi everyone! I found this forum recently. I am writing to ask for your help: I am having absurd difficulties working through a bass line to harmonize (the idea that I have two to do terrifie...
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Stratocaster7
Hello everyone! I am doing exercise no. 15 from Jacopo Napoli's harmony book, and before moving forward I would like to know if the degrees and modulations are correct! I am attaching a phot...
Hello, I am new to the forum and I take this opportunity to greet everyone and thank you in advance for the help. I am harmonizing a series of basses (in this case J. Napoli 13), but when I...
Hello everyone. I am new. I wanted an opinion on self-taught study. I should preface that I have studied ancient counterpoint and I know functional harmony and Bach's fugues. I would like to...
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Frank
hi, I knew that in literature there are cases where the false relation is used and among these is phraseology, like arpeggios that break the chord etc. I would like to know if at measure 10...
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Good evening everyone! I have to provide the figured bass for this trio sonata for flute, oboe, and basso continuo, there is just one very slight problem... They gave me a score that is bord...
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antares86
hello everyone, I have just joined. i am attaching a recently finished work (my professor hasn't seen it yet.) I would specifically like to ask you for an opinion on the segment of measures...
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Hi guys.. I have a doubt regarding the leading-tone triad; in your opinion, is doubling the third in this simple arrangement correct? Considering that in a leading-tone triad one must avoid...
Good evening everyone, since the melody workshop was my second... I want to show you my first ever imitated and fugued bass, relatively simple: subject, modulating progressions, and final ca...
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antares86
Good evening everyone, I wanted to ask if you could help me with the harmonic analysis of Danzi's sonata for clarinet and piano. I have to write a paper on this sonata and I would need to kn...
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Frank
Hello everyone, friends. I wanted to ask your opinion on a modulation. Having to make an arrangement of the well-known piece "un amore così grande" for band, I necessarily had to transpose t...
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Hello everyone I am attaching a file from Piston's harmony book, because I cannot understand how the voices are distributed. For example: in the chord of the first measure, there is an A in...
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Fox
guys sorry but I have an urgent need for help on the bass of jacopo napoli n 38.
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antares86
Hi and sorry if I am always asking you a lot of questions But books are sometimes unclear and teachers often say so! There is one thing I really don't understand, and that is why all the boo...
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Fox
