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A hemiola is a feature of music that originated in the Baroque period. It comes about in music in triple time when the composer subverts the metre by placing the...

Each of the seven scale degrees in the major and minor scales has been given a fancy name:TonicSupertonicMediantSubdominantDominantSubmediantLeading toneThese names are often used when re...

Stravinsky was commissioned to compose Symphony of Psalms by Serge Koussevitsky for the 50^thanniversary of the Boston Symphony Orchestra (1930).  Although adhering to the formal design of a sec...

Analysing melody is mainly about your own perception of the piece rather than memorising a lot of facts - this is where you can bring your own input and subjective view. Firstly, you need to get to know t...

Harmony is based on scales which are constructed according to a certain set of intervals which create a specific sound thereby. For a piece of music to have major harmony, it must be based on a major scal...