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Given that the music is supposed to set the scene of a classical period, it is unsurprising that Portman uses an oom-cha-cha bass accompaniment in ‘Six Years Later’, a typical characteristic of the waltz ...

There is a chromatic descending ground bass ostinato played by a viol. This is archetypal of baroque recitativesThe continuo is written for a viol consort. Viols are the baroque predecessors to common vio...

You could think of a 'harmonic device' as a 'harmonic technique' e.g. circle of fifths or chromaticism. When a question is asking what harmonic device is being used it is likely to be very obvious e.g a c...

The function of the musical cadence in western music is to either create tension at the end of a musical phrase to lead into another segment of music, or to definitively conclude a musical phrase. This is...

There are two key differences between dominant seventh chords and augmented sixth chords, despite the fact that they sound the same and use the same pitches: function, and spelling. A dominant seventh cho...