[In the Class, for Quiz 13 (Figured Bass, given sometime after 8am, Thursday, April 26, Diablo Valley College Music, Pleasant Hill, CA]
Voice-Leading Cautions
Avoid Voice-Overlaps (Voice-Crossings) - Ex. Bass may not leap above previous Tenor Note
Avoid Parallel 5ths and Octaves in Traditional Harmony
- these may be acceptable or even unavoidable in Contemporary usages
- some may be avoied by not keeping common tone and simply instead using Contrary Motion
- with inversions, Doubling Root may be preferable to the (First-Semester) Doubled Bass strategy
Figured Bass Reminders
Figures (Arabic Numbers and Accidentals) refer to operations above a given Bass
b6
First Inversion - 6 implies 3 (latter is sometimes stated, if altered - ex. b3
- Root is up at least an Octave - Third of Chord will be the Bass
Second Inversion - 6 - Root and Third are at least up an Octave - Fifth of Chord will be Bass
4
7 implies 5 and 3
Repeated Bass Notes with no change of Chord may be represented in Upper Voices by
longer Note Values appropriate to context
Consequences of Inversions, add6's, and 7th Chords
No Doubling necessary in add6 or 7th Chord
- since there will be 4 Chord Tones: 1 for each Voice (S A T B)
Inversions, add6's, and 7th Chords may result in fewer or more
Common Tones than in corresponding Root-Position Triads
Keyboard-Sofege
John Williams (b. 1932) - Star Wars (1977): The Force
(N.B. Melody and Chords may be performed sequentially, rather than simultaneously)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1937VEYguI
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Williams
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_(soundtrack)
Other Music Referenced in Quiz 13
John Williams
Star Wars
Main Title
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_D0ZQPqeJkk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_(Main_Title)
Princess Leia's Theme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDZa6SdnAgo
Cantina Band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHD-knhS6es
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Yoda's Theme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMw6ufg-g9Y
Imperial March (Darth Vader's Theme)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bzWSJG93P8
Philip Glass (b. 1937) - Einstein on the Beach (1975): BED
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZf34B8SImo (@ 2:17:56)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Glass
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_on_the_Beach
Roger Waters (b. 1942) - Shine On You Crazy Diamond (1975): I-V
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmbLRLMRiIk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Waters
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shine_On_You_Crazy_Diamond
(N.B. Wikipedia's accounting of I-V differs from the sheet music)
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John Williams's Star Wars: The Force for the Theoreticians as Dictation / Keyboard-Solfege / Board harmony,
followed by Quiz 12, with musical excerpts drawn from Paul McCartney, Leonard Bernstein, Lloyd-Webber, and Roger Waters.
Glorious
28th
day
of
summer,
high
up 10 to 73
(Pleasant Hill, 71),
with
a
scenic
return
up
680
and
a
cloud-
bedecked
I-80,
to
errands
and a continuation of system 86 new-edition Mice and Men, Op. 45, and page 18 Igor Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms score-studied, as part of The Opus Project presents Opus 64 (8pm, Saturday, April 28, 2018, Diablo Valley College Music Building, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA)
