MUSI 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Submediant, Borrowed Chord
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Used a lot is late classical period and early romantic. Instead of tonicising secondary key, they created color of the music. Technique of borrowing harmonies from the parallel mode. It adds both melodic and harmonic color to composition, and particularly effective in music with text. You know in major keys: diminish 7th is borrows flat 6. In minor keys: major one is borrow raised 3rd. Mixture is most effective in major keys. Altered pre dominant harmonies in major ii* and iv. Most common scale degree involved in mixture is flat 6th. Flat 6th intensified motion to the dominant because flat 6th want pull down to fifth. When flat 6th is the root of the chords. We must put a flat before the roman numeral. Notes needed: flat 6th- 1st- flat 3rd. Flat vi used to prolong tonic or as a tonic substitute.
