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Hello Do you know how to solfeggio 6/8 - 9/8 and 12/8? Is this correct in your opinion? 6/8 one movement on the beat (3 subdivisions) and one on the upbeat (3 subdivisions) 9/8 one movement...
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Fox
Ok guys, this time I really need a little help; I'm trying to write a bass line but... the transition between the two themes isn't marked haha and I'm having a bit of a crisis trying to catc...
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antares86
Hello everyone I would like to ask you what rhythm is, essentially. I learned that the tempo of a composition in musical terminology is its pace or speed. Then I understood that meter (or me...
Hi everyone, I just ran into a little problem... I started the imitations and aside from the fact that it feels like I'm doing interlocking puzzles... ahahahah I found a progression of desce...
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antares86
Hi everyone! I need a little help analyzing a theme for a barcarolle that I would like to write... but I'm having a bit of difficulty understanding a couple of passages. Immediately after th...
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antares86
Hello everyone. Can you please create bass no. 12 by Jacopo Napoli for me?
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antares86
Good evening everyone, I am a student of Counterpoint and Fugue; I have started tackling the study of four voices based on the advice of Johann Sebastian Bach, who had his students begin dir...
Good morning everyone. I am trying to understand and analyze 4 very simple bars that I devised. Unfortunately, I cannot get past the first one I am attaching an image file with the chords an...
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Piccinesco
Hello sorry, I am studying that the augmented sixth is a minor triad always in I inverted with the fundamental altered upwards. But I didn't understand where it is located, in which degrees...
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Hello, I have been studying jazz improvisation and harmony for quite a few years, and I would like to study multi-voice improvisation; as a lover of Baroque counterpoint, I thought I would d...
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Fox
Hello everyone would someone be so kind as to explain to me what modulations are in harmony? thanks a lot
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Fox
hi sorry, I would like to ask you for some information.. is the diminished 7th chord a 5th species chord and is it found only on the VII degree of the harmonic minor scale? Between handouts,...
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Fox
Hello everyone sorry for the perhaps stupid question, but I cannot understand the difference between Functional, Complementary and Principal Harmony, i tried to do some research on the web b...
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Fox
What is the difference between "harmonic successions and contrapuntal successions". That is, since harmony consists of the chords that accompany the melodic line and counterpoint is the succ...
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Fox
Hello everyone I would like to ask you how harmonic progressions are derived in a minor key. I know that to obtain a harmonic progression in a major key, one must follow this sequence: I - V...
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Fox
Hi can I ask you what the difference is between a harmonic sequence (or formula) and a progression?
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Fox
Hello guys. I am composing a jazz/fusion piece. It is still just an idea in its embryonic state. For now, the only harmonic progression I have established is the following: G6| F#-7 | B7 | A...
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Hello everyone I know that the second inversion of a chord is mainly used in: Cadential fourth and sixth Passing fourth and sixth Neighboring fourth and sixth but I haven't quite understood...
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Crisantemi
Hello everyone Could someone explain to me in simple terms what a secondary dominant is and how and why it is obtained? thanks a lot
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Fox
Hi, I would like to ask you what determines whether the chords in a scale are major or minor? To explain myself better, why are the I - IV - V degrees major, the II - III - VI minor, and the...
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Frank
Hello everyone I am studying harmony but I have many doubts and many gaps; furthermore, the Walter Piston manual that I am following is complicated for me. Can I ask if there is anyone able...
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Fox
It will be a constant thought of recent times, it will be my usual strange way of thinking that if you don't get to the origins you don't truly understand the "essence" of things; it is what...
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thallo
Hello everyone. For a few months now, I have been taking a "complementary/classical" harmony course at the S.Louis in Rome. I should preface that this is just an introductory overview of the...
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RedScharlach
hi everyone a young student who unfortunately has major gaps in harmony and cannot afford a guiding teacher asked me what methodology to use to achieve a good knowledge of the harmony of Mah...
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rstrauss
Hello everyone, Analyzing the modulation schemes in sonata forms of the Classical and pre-Romantic periods (therefore Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven), I wanted to understand, especially in rel...
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RedScharlach
