Harmony
Naming chords based on their degree of the scale.
Covers "Wild Thing" (I - IV - V - IV - I)
Official classification: Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Classical Guitar, Chords, Video, 1b Controlling sounds - playing, 4c Listening, and applying knowledge and understanding - processes and symbols, Unit 10. Hooks and riffs, Danmans Music School
Introduction to 7th chords and how to play them on guitar
Official classification: Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Classical Guitar, Chords, Video, 1b Controlling sounds - playing, Danmans Music School
How to play chords in the octave position
Official classification: Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Classical Guitar, Chords, Video, 1b Controlling sounds - playing, Danmans Music School
How to play F major second inversion (F/C)
Official classification: Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Classical Guitar, Chords, Video, 1b Controlling sounds - playing, Danmans Music School
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Official classification: Flute, Chords, Video, Danmans Music School
Video podcast demonstrating how to teach a C Major 12 Bar Blues progression on the piano. Students must have an understanding of 7th chords and inversions.
Official classification: Piano, Improvising, Chords, 12 Bar Blues, Video, Chord progressions, Unit 8. Jazz improvisations
Root motion is the movement from one chord's root to another chord's root.
Official classification: Understanding Notation, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 4, Chord progressions, Curriculum support, Musictheory.net
Analyzing the notes and chords of a song is a major part of music theory.
Official classification: Understanding Notation, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 4, Chord progressions, Curriculum support, Musictheory.net
In addition to diatonic triads, every major and minor scale has seven diatonic seventh chords.
Official classification: Understanding Notation, Chords, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 4, Chord progressions, Curriculum support, Musictheory.net
Every major and minor scale has seven special triads, called diatonic triads, which are formed from that scale's notes.
Official classification: Understanding Notation, Chords, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 4, Chord progressions, Curriculum support, Musictheory.net
An interval measures the distance between two notes.
Official classification: Understanding Notation, Intervals, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 4, Curriculum support, 4c Listening, and applying knowledge and understanding - processes and symbols, 4c Listening, and applying knowledge and understanding - processes and symbols, Musictheory.net
In this analysis, we will be examining bars 48-50 of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata (Opus 27, Number 2, Movement 1).
Official classification: Understanding Notation, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 4, Chord progressions, Curriculum support, Musictheory.net
A Neapolitan chord is simply a major triad that is built on a special note.
Official classification: Understanding Notation, Chords, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 4, Triads, Curriculum support, Musictheory.net
Although hundreds of different chord progressions are possible, most tend to follow a pattern.
Official classification: Understanding Notation, Chords, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 4, Chord progressions, Curriculum support, Musictheory.net
In this analysis, we will be looking at the first few bars of Auld Lang Syne, a traditional Scottish ballad.
Official classification: Understanding Notation, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 4, Chord progressions, Curriculum support, Musictheory.net
Floating Balloons - Ford Mondeo advert, filmed in London. Excellent example of music creating mood with beautiful haunting Piano track in a minor key as accompaniment.
Official classification: Piano, Expressive & Descriptive Sounds, Advertisements, Video, Key Stage 3, Scales & tonality, Minor Scales, Harmony, Curriculum support, Unit 13. Music and media
Gregorian chant is the central tradition of Western plainchant, a form of monophonic liturgical music within Western Christianity that accompanied the celebration of Mass and other ritual services.
named after Pope Gregory I, Bishop of Rome from 590 to 604, who is traditionally credited for having ordered the simplification and cataloging of music assigned to specific celebrations in the church calendar.
KS1/2 idea: a good example of unison singing by male voices (KS1) and consistent texture (KS2).
Official classification: Religion, Devotion & Meditation, Audio, Male, Male Voice Choir, Unison, Curriculum support
Audio clip of sacred Gregorian chant.
KS1/2 idea: a good example of unison singing for KS1 and continuous unchanging texture for KS2.
Official classification: Religion, Devotion & Meditation, Audio, Male, Male Voice Choir, Unison, Curriculum support, Unit 12. Bhajan/qawwali
Tracks 9 and 10 from Charanga / Saydisc / Christine Richards project - 'Listen to this' for Key Stage 3. English sacred music of the late Middle Ages from Amon Ra album 'Worcester Fragments' performed by The Orlando Consort (1'32") (1'37") Main features: early church music, ostinato, drone. These two extracts are sung by unaccompanied male voices. The Track Explorer has four learning tracks focusing on the titles of the extracts, vocal texture, description of texture and the lowest part.
Official classification: Listening, Rounds , The Middle Ages, Religion, Devotion & Meditation, Interactive Activities, Early Music, Polyphony, Unison, Drone, England, Track Explorer, Curriculum support, Saydisc Records, Saydisc/Charanga World Music
Short video clip (1 min.) examining the detail of a nativity painting by Boticelli. The organ music in the soundtrack reflects the musical style of the time, especially in its bare cadences.
Clip from the Roland Collection of Film on Art (www.rolandcollection.com). Used with kind permission of Anthony Roland.
Official classification: Painting, Paintings, Video, Cadences, Curriculum support, The Roland Collection of Films on Art