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Fundamentals of Music Theory

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The University of Edinburgh

Fundamentals of Music Theory

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This course will introduce students to the theory of music, providing them with the skills needed to read and write Western music notation, as well as to understand, analyse, and listen informedly. It will cover material such as pitches and scales, intervals, clefs, rhythm, form, meter, phrases and cadences, and basic harmony. This course covers the fundamentals of Western music theory, from the absolute basics to some more advanced concepts and, as such, is the perfect course for beginners and more experienced musicians alike. Follow us on twitter @musictheorymooc #edmusictheory

From the lesson

Harmony 2: Inversions, Cadences and Sequences

Chord Names3:47

Meet the Instructors

Dr Michael Edwards

Reid School of Music, ECA
Dr Zack Moir
Teaching Fellow
Reid School of Music, Edinburgh College of Art
Richard Worth

Edinburgh College of Art
Dr Nikki Moran

Reid School of Music, ECA
Dr John Philip Kitchen, MA BMus PhD FRCO LRAM

Reid School of Music

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You've already heard some of the chord names.

That is what we call the triads, which

are built up on different degrees of the scale.

Let's take the scale of F-Major.

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Where we've encountered the tonic, which is chord one.

A dominant, which is chord five.

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And the sub-dominant, which is chord four.

As we hear these are all major triads.

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And they're the three most common, in fact,

some music is harmonized entirely by these three chords.

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But as briefly mentioned before, the

diatonic scale of course, contains seven notes.

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Back to the beginning, and a triad can be built on all of them.

Not all the triads we find, will be major.

But let's go up, and investigate them.

First of all, sticking to the key of F, we've

had the tonic, on the first degree of the scale.

And then above the tonic.

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>> Chord two is called the supertonic, because it's one step above the tonic.

And as you'll hear, the triad is minor, with the notes G, B-flat, and D.

We have to remember that the triads have to be

made up of notes, which are part of the scale.

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So it has to be one of those notes.

So in this supertonic we have the G, B-flat, and D.

Going up another step, the third degree of the scale is called the

mediant, what we call chord iii, and its notes are A,C, and E.

The sub-dominant we know.

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The dominant we know.

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And sub-mediant, chord six is another minor triad.

In this case consisting of D, F, and A.

The sub-mediant you remember is what we hear

in the interrupted cadence that we talked about.

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And then finally, in the context of F we have,.

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The final triad, which is built on seventh degree of the scale.

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And which is a diminished triad as you'll hear, the

notes are E, G and B flat, and that's chord seven.

So to go up through all of these in

F-Major, here we go chord one, two,

three, four, five, six, seven.

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>> And back to one.

Let's just try them in another key, here's C-Major.

One, two, three,

four, five, six, seven

[MUSIC]

And back to one.

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