Author: Keith Kothman
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(musicTheory2) Quiz Postponed until Monday 2/19
BSU is canceling morning classes on 2/14, which means that the quiz originally scheduled for Friday (2/16) will take place on Monday (2/19). I’ll have graded homework to hand back on Friday, and we’ll review for the quiz.
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(musicTheory2) Lecture Notes: Leading Tone Seventh Chords (2)
Focus on resolving the two tritones properly. In all cases except vii°6-5, resolving d5’s in and A4’s out by step will give the proper chord resolution. Note: resolving the tritones leaves you with a doubled third in the tonic chord.
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(musicTheory2) Lecture Notes: Ch. 19, other seventh chords
The subdominant seventh (IV7 and iv7): another choice to harmonize scale-degree 3-2-1 descents at cadences, but unlike the cadential 6-4 can be on a strong or weak beat. The third of the iv7 must leap down to double the fifth of the V chord to avoid parallel fifths. can be part of V – IV6-5…
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(musicTheory2) Assignment: Ch. 19-2
More on Leading Tone Seventh chords: Wkbk: pp. 157 – 158, #5A, #6B
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(compMus1) Reading Assignment: MSP Tutorials
I’ve fixed the link for the MSP tutorials pdf. You can jump to the post here.
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(compMus1) Reading Assignment: more on Phase Vocoding
Additional Phase Vocoder Readings: Square One: A Stitch in Time (EM) A little cheeky, and you don’t need to get deep with the alternate forms of processing suggested. The original documentation for SoundHack on Phase Vocoding sldkjf
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(musicTheory2) Lecture Notes: Leading Tone Seventh Chords
Start by remembering the general stuff: 7ths are dissonant intervals. The chordal seventh must be PREPARED (approached by step or same tone, P – N – Sus; rarely as an appoggiatura), and RESOLVED (down by step). This applies no matter what the root is (or Roman numeral classification) Fully diminished leading tone seventh chords are…
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(musicTheory2) Assignment 6: Ch. 19 Leading Tone Seventh Chords
Wkbk: p. 155, #3 A – F (due Friday) Follow directions on p. 154 carefully. Complete in four voices.
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(compMus1) Lecture Notes: Getting Started with SoundHack
You can download SoundHack at <http://www.soundhack.com>. We’ll be using two processes in SoundHack right now. Both are located in the Hack menu. Varispeed: Continuously variable changing playback speed (without pitch correction). Phase Vocoder: time compression/expansion and pitch change independent of each other. For Varispeed: You can set upper and lower limits for the draw box.…
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(compMus1) Lecture Notes – Digital Performer
Just to remind all of you about the Digital Performer issues discussed in class (2/5): Save often. DP 4.12 crashes. Set your Time Formats (Setup | Time Formats) to Real Time for this project (all formats and rulers) Insert a tempo change into the conductor track so that a quarter note = 60 beats/minute. The…