Sound Reasoning
Table of Contents
Part II: Hearing Harmony
18.1 Hearing Harmony: What is Harmony?
18.2 Harmony in Western Music
18.3 Expressing Harmony
18.4 Listening Gallery: Expressing Harmony
18.5 Harmonic Rhythm
18.6 Listening Gallery: Harmonic Rhythm
18.7 Cadences
18.8 Listening Gallery: Cadences
18.9 The Tonic
18.10 Circular and Linear Progressions
18.11 Listening Gallery: Circular and Linear Progressions
18.12 The Major-minor Contrast
18.13 Modes and Scales
18.14 Hearing the Mode
18.15 Listening Gallery: Hearing the Mode
18.16 Tonic, Mode and Key
18.17 Listening Gallery: Tonic, Mode and Key
18.18 Music Within a Key
18.19 Listening Gallery: Music Within a Key
18.20 Postponed Closure
18.21 Listening Gallery: Postponing Closure
18.22 Chromaticism
18.23 Listening Gallery: Chromaticism
18.24 Dissonance
18.25 Leaving the Key
18.26 Harmonic Distance
18.27 Modulation
18.28 Harmonic Goals
18.29 The Return to the Tonic
18.30 Final Closure
18.31 Listening Gallery: Final Closure
18.32 Reharmonizing a Melody
18.33 Listening Gallery: Reharmonizing a Melody
18.34 Conclusion
18.15 Listening Gallery: Hearing the Mode
Please identify the mode in the following examples:
CHOICES
Minor
ANSWER
This excerpt is in the Major mode.
CHOICES
Minor
ANSWER
This excerpt is in the Major mode.
CHOICES
Minor
ANSWER
This excerpt is in the minor mode.
CHOICES
Minor
ANSWER
This excerpt is in the Major mode.
CHOICES
Minor
ANSWER
This excerpt is in the minor mode.
CHOICES
Minor
ANSWER
This excerpt is in the Major mode.
CHOICES
Minor
ANSWER
This excerpt is in the minor mode.
CHOICES
Minor
ANSWER
This excerpt is in the Major mode.
The following examples involve the same music being played first in one mode and then the other. Which comes first – Major or minor?
CHOICES
Minor
ANSWER
This excerpt begins in Major and moves to the minor mode.
CHOICES
Minor
ANSWER
This excerpt begins in minor then moves to the Major mode.
CHOICES
Minor
ANSWER
This excerpt begins in Major and moves to the minor mode.
CHOICES
Minor
ANSWER
The music switches to Major when the piano enters.
CHOICES
Minor
ANSWER
The music switches to Major when the choir enters.