Lesson 7 of 13

How do composers decide how to end a phrase?

Lesson 7 of 13

How do composers decide how to end a phrase?

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Lesson details

Key learning points

  1. In this lesson, we will explore what makes a musical question and answer phrase, including balanced phrases and the use of the tonic and dominant. We will compose balanced question and answer phrases in 3/4 and also begin to notate our compositions using staff notation.

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5 Questions

Q1.
What degree of the scale is 'I' known as?

Dominant
Subdominant
Correct answer: Tonic

Q2.
What degree of the scale is 'V' known as?

Correct answer: Dominant
Subdominant
Tonic

Q3.
What degree of the scale do we end our question on?

Correct answer: Dominant
Subdominant
Tonic

Q4.
What degree of the scale do we end our answer on?

Dominant
Subdominant
Correct answer: Tonic

Q5.
Which of these is an example of a balanced phrase?

1 bar question, 5 bar answer
Correct answer: 2 bar question, 2 bar answer
2 bar question, 3 bar answer

Lesson appears in

UnitMusic / The Power of the Pentatonic