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A really good way to help yourself with every step of Bach Chorales is to write out a chart of all the notes that the home key, and any keys that you modulate to. This will help make sure you can easily s...

Baroque Period Dates: 1600-1750 Instruments: Importance of the harpsichord / Focus on stringed instuments Orchestra: Small in size (25 or less instruments) Texture: Often complex and polyphonic Key...

A suspension more often than not, will in fact contain within it a dominant 7th, so getting to know the difference between the two can be difficult! The key difference is that a suspension is contained of...

A perfect cadence is chords V-I. When there is a perfect cadence the music sounds finished.

An imperfect cadence is any chord moving to V (e.g. I-V, II-V, IV-V). The music does not sound finished.<...

The structure of Sonata Form - consisting of an Exposition, Development, and Recapitulation (sometimes with Coda) - gives ample room for the execution of a musical argument. In the exposition, all musical...