UM 1st Year Music Theory

 

AnDieFreude

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Today we experienced technical difficulties related to "Are we in F?  Or are we in C?"  Have a look:

 

 

I circled the CADENCES in green and two dominant chords in orange.  So, forget the V of V business for now!  Here's the simplest way to look at these two chords and the cadence in mm. 12:

  1. Look at the chord content - CEGBb (this only applies to beat one of the measure)
  2. Determine the quality of that chord - Mm7 (which happens to have a super strong association with dominant-tonic motion)
  3. Label the chord - C is scale degree 5 in F major
  4. Determine the cadence - don't be put off by the chords in mm. 11 . . . it's still a HC since it ends on V!

 

More advanced questions:

  1. In mm. 11, what is the (are the) chords in beat 2?
  2. Are there any inversion/chord errors above?
  3. How would you analyze mm. 11-12 if we were already in CM?  How would that affect the cadence label?

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