MU161 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: List Of Compositions By Johann Sebastian Bach, Minor Scale, Submediant
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September 10, 2014: tonal music music that gravitates toward one note (note being the scale or tonic of the scale, why is e the focus note in bach, violin partita no. C1 and c2 and c3 and c4 etc. : pitch, a single note with a designated octave range (eg. C1 or c2 or c3 or c4 etc. : enharmonic pitches, notes with different names but sound the same, enharmonic pitches are not actually the same note. Wwswwws: notes within a diatonic collection have a gravitational pull toward the tonic, tendency tones within a major diatonic collection are the leading tone and the. Super tonic: tendency tones within a minor diatonic collection are the submediant to the. By raising the submediant, we overcome the gravitational pull of the. 6th and 7th notes: key signatures, scales are the linear representation of the keys we are in, key signatures move in perfect 5ths.
