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Parallel fifths are an example of poor voice leading, especially in chorales. The melodic lines should be easy to sing. Lines composed using parallel fifths are incredibly difficult to sing and are not contr...

A cadence is a chordal progression that ends a phrase or piece of music. Perfect and plagal cadences provide a harmonically stable end to the music, whereas the imperfect and interrupted cadences make the mu...

The ritornello form was one of the musical structures developed in the Baroque period. It is characterised by a recurring A section in between new sections of music, and is often described as 'ABACA', where ...

The process of Italian unification, know as the Risorgimento, was a long and arduous process that lead to great struggles in Italy all the way up to the rise of Mussolini in 1921. It was the political and so...

When we discuss KEYS in music we must always look at one thing: the KEY signature. This is the bit on the first line, next to the clef (Treble, Bass, Alto or Soprano). You'll notice this as it will have Shar...