Tonality
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Tonality
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Key Words for Tonality:
• Major
• Minor
• Modal
• Tonal
• Modulation
• Dominant
• Tonic
• Relative Major
• Relative Minor
• Key Identification
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Exam questions
• An exam question about tonality may be as simple as:• “Describe the tonality of this piece” 1 mark
• So how do you do this? A 1 mark question is generally asking for a one word or phrase answer.
• Some words that may be the answer to your question….
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Major
• A piece that is in a major key sounds happy.
http://www.feedmechocolate.com/stuff/key/Jupiter.mp3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASB6hFUat4g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3Oy2TpdTzU
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Minor
• A piece in a minor sounds sad
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whhAMSSexQ8
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Modal
• Modal music is in a mode. Modes are 7 note scales. They sound as if notes have been missed out of the scale.
• Modal music is hard to spot so be careful! Listen carefully. It’s often found in jazz, folk and pop music.
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Modulation
• Modulation means that you change the key of the piece. This happens a lot in pop songs, near the end, normally for a repeated chorus.
• The 3 most closely related keys are the relative major, the relative minor or the dominant. It is usually one of these that piece modulate into (especially in popular music).
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Dominant Key
• Changing to the dominant key
• If it was major before and major still it will most probably have modulated to the dominant key
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Modulation
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1_MydgRFZw&feature=relmfu
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PivWY9wn5ps&ob=av3e
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