Many people are comfortable working in the harmonic and melodic keys when harmonising a melodic line but feel less assured doing the same in the natural minor. In this music theory lesson we explore which chords are major, which are...

This music composition lesson explores the embellishment of music with non-chord tones/ inessential notes, including a reminder of what are the most common inessential notes. We then consider the implication of using too many non-chord...

See why every musician should become familiar with figured bass. For harpsichordists and organists needing to realise figured bass in performance realising figured bass fluently with style is essential. For others it’s a useful way of...

We explore the Pentatonic scale. As the title suggests the scale comprises 5 notes instead of the 7 notes that make up the major scale and the minor scale. This music theory lesson looks at the different ways of calculating the notes...

How to approach constructing a note row that also incorporates a sense of tonality. The music composition lesson explores how to build in some implication of a key within a twelve-tone serial piece and explains how to achieve a...

How using traditional elements of music theory is useful to think about when writing a twelve-tone serial piece of music. Examples of using tonal elements and rhythm that isn't too complex are explored in order to demonstrate that...

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This music composition lesson takes a simple passage and explains how you can spot obvious places in which to add non-chord tones. The video explains neighbour tones (auxiliary notes) and passing tones (passing notes) then goes on to...

Learn about the Musical Alphabet and Lines and Spaces on the music staff in this animated video about music theory.

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Learn about the Musical Alphabet and Lines and Spaces on the music staff in this animated video about music theory.

This music theory lesson explains how to effect radical modulation by using just a single note. By using a single pivot note, rather than a pivot chord, it is possible to modulate to distant keys without making the music sound strange....

I've gotten a lot of questions about Interval Inversions over on Twitter, so I give a run down of inversions on today's Q+A.

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Part 2 of our Intro to Post-Tonal Music Theory (or, fourth semester theory). Today we look at base 12 counting, which is something we are already familiar with because of how we count time.<br/>

Today we begin looking at Post-Tonal Music Theory (or, fourth semester theory). Atonal music can be super confusing at first. Don't worry, we're starting off slow: we're just looking at Octave Equivalency and Pitch Class today.

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