MUSC 122 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11 and 12: Minor Scale, Diatonic Function, Tritone
MUSC 122 - Chapter 11 and 12 Notes
Things highlighted in yellow is what I think is important. Other colors are for things that refer to each other. All pictures are either
from the textbook Music in Theory and Practice 9th Edition or notes that I hand wrote.
Chapter 11 The Dominant Seventh Chord
Important Concepts
- Dominant Seventh Chord
- Diatonic seventh chord built on the fifth scale degree of the major,
harmonic minor, and ascending melodic minor scales
- All seventh chords have a particular sound or quality determined by two
characteristics
- Type of triad
- Major, minor, diminished, or augmented
- Type of interval form
- From root to the seventh (m7, M7, or d7)
- Quality described as major-minor because it has major triad and minor
seventh
- “Mm”
- V7 is found almost as frequently as the dominant triad
- Inversion of the V7
- 7 = Interval of a seventh above the bass
- 5 = Interval of a fifth above the bass
- 3 = interval of a third
- Macro Analysis Symbol
- Purpose of macro analysis is to expose root relationships and harmonic
gestures throughout a composition
- One of most common circle progressions is dominant to tonic
- History
- Dominant Seventh Chord was foreign in Renaissance Period
- Sixteenth century, the sound but not function, came into existence
- Early Baroque Period introduced the V7 chord
- Also introduced functional harmony in general
- Early seventeenth-century music, examples of dominant seventh chords
are scarce
- Chords are treated very conservatively
- In Baroque Period, V7 chords were more plentiful and became integral
- Constant use throughout Classical Period
- Treatment similar to Baroque Period
- Romantic Period, dominant chord was plentiful
- Freer voice-leading treatment developed
- Post-romantic and impressionistic periods, functional use of the dominant
seventh chord was on the wane
Document Summary
Musc 122 - chapter 11 and 12 notes. Things highlighted in yellow is what i think is important. other colors are for things that refer to each other. All pictures are either from the textbook music in theory and practice 9th edition or notes that i hand wrote. Diatonic seventh chord built on the fifth scale degree of the major, All seventh chords have a particular sound or quality determined by two harmonic minor, and ascending melodic minor scales characteristics. From root to the seventh (m7, m7, or d7) Quality described as major-minor because it has major triad and minor seventh. V 7 is found almost as frequently as the dominant triad. 7 = interval of a seventh above the bass. 5 = interval of a fifth above the bass. Purpose of macro analysis is to expose root relationships and harmonic. One of most common circle progressions is dominant to tonic gestures throughout a composition.
