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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...

A sense of threat, and possibly even death, is evoked in the movement’s harmonic workings through the tritone. The first explicit tritone interval is exploited in bars 23-4, between A natural and Eb, when...