S4-5 theory

S4 chord ear training online practise

https://www.musictheory.net/exercises/ear-chord/zyyyeyyngneydyy

4 chord types

1. Major (happy)

2. Minor (sad)

3. Diminished (tension/suspense)

4. Dominant 7th (unresolved / with 4 notes)

Interval Recognition:

LEVEL 4

• PRACTISE = Major 2nds and 3rds, and Perfect 4ths, 5ths, and 8ves - ascending

Musical element analysis:

· instrumentation: for example the list of instruments/sound sources used

· texture: for example layers of sound (contrapuntal, polyphonic, chordal, homophonic, monophonic, heterophonic, pointillistic, unison); the density of sound (from light/thin to heavy/thick); tessitura (effect of pitch height on texture).

· Timbre: adjectives that describe the sound, - high, low, piercing, distorted, dark, bright. also particular instrumental techniques employed such as muting, pizzicato, glissandi, flutter tonguing; production techniques such as reverb, chorus, distortion.

· structure: for example: verse, chorus, bridge, A B A, large scale structures such as symphonies, dance suites, and operas;
medium scale structures such as twelve bar blues, sixteen and thirty-two bar song form, verse/chorus, strophic, sonata form, binary, ternary, rondo, theme and variations, through-composed, fugue, round, canon, cantus firmus, metrical and/or harmonic cycles;
small scale structures such as motives and motivic development, phrasing, chord patterns, textural components, modulatory systems.

· tonality: for example: major, minor ... modal, diatonic (major/minor - functional), pentatonic, poly-tonal, whole tone, chromatic, atonal, serial.