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In Bach chorales, most perfect cadences will follow the same patterns so it's actually a lot less complicated than it first appears! Firstly, we will look at the most common progressions for a perfect cad...

There are of course many ways to begin to harmonise a Bach Chorale; I would advise identifying the key of the soprano line, by looking at the key signature and the accidentals (sharpened sevenths of the m...

Conceptions of jazz culture and music that began to develop at the very beginning of the twentieth century both in the US and in Europe have had significant repercussions for directions taken not just in ...

The first step is to decide whether the extract sounds complete or not. If the extract sounds completed, it will either be a perfect or plagal cadence. The chord progression of a perfect cadence is V-I. T...

Of course, there is more than one way to approach a Bach Chorale, but I think the first thing to do is identify the basic chords (I, V, IV, VI, II) in the key that you find yourself in. From there you hav...