Unit Objectives

By the end of this unit, students will be able to: 

• Describe common ways in which six-four chords, mediants, predominant 7th chords, and subtonic chords are used in common-practice Western art music.

• Explain how subdominant, submediant, and mediant chord are used in different ways to prolong or substitute for tonic harmony in the phrase model. 

• Identify examples of plagal and deceptive cadences in examples from the repertoire.

• Compose, analyze, and harmonize progressions using the above chords and progressions.