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I've heard the word supertonic before. What does this mean?

Each of the seven scale degrees in the major and minor scales has been given a fancy name: TonicSupertonicMediantSubdominantDominantSubmediantLeading tone These names are often used when referring to pitches...
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Answered by Liam G. • Music tutor
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Describe how the opening of Stravinsky’s 'Symphony of Psalms Movement III' sets a religious atmosphere within a secular symphonic genre

Stravinsky was commissioned to compose Symphony of Psalms by Serge Koussevitsky for the 50 th anniversary of the Boston Symphony Orchestra (1930). Although adhering to the formal design of a secular genre (t...
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Answered by Phoebe P. • Music tutor
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How do I analyse melodic features in a piece?

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 the ...
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Answered by Lucia S. • Music tutor
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What does it mean for a piece of music to have major harmony, minor harmony?

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 scale, ...
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Answered by Lowri C. • Music tutor
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Highlight and explain the interest of an harmonic feature from the 2nd mvt. of Schubert's Piano Trio in Bb.

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 th...
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Answered by Bethan R. • Music tutor
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