Music Theory Comprehensive Complete: Part 7, 8, & 9

• Master college-level Music Theory Class
• Compose music in the style of Bach and other Baroque composers
• Compose music in the style of many well-known Composers
• Create more emotional music using suspensions, resolutions, and non-chord tones effectively
• Pitches and Pitch Classes
• The keyboard layout
• The 2 main clefs
• Reading Rhythms
• The main musical symbols you find in scores
• The 4 main scale patterns
• The 3 notes in any chord (and how to find them!)
• Analysis projects of Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, and some modern music as well!
• How 7th chords work
• Keys and Key signatures
• The circle of fifths
• The 7 scale degrees
• Compound meters
• The 3 types of minor scales
• Diatonic chord progressions
• The 7 Modes
• The 12 intervals
• The 5 types of counterpoint
• Writing melodies
• Melodic embellishment
• The 5 types of cadences
• Harmonizing melodies
• Figured bass
• Harmonizing chorale melodies
• Passing chords
• Sequences by chords
• Changing keys
• Diminished chords and tonic expansion
• Identifying phrases
• Motives
• Sentences, periods, and melody structure
• Secondary dominants

In this class, we will cover:

• Tools of Counterpoint
• How Inversion Names Work
• 7th Chord Inversion Names
• The Chordal 7th
• Root Position V7 – I Resolutions in SATB Voicing
• Inversions of V7 – I Resolutions in SATB Voicing
• Exceptions to Voice Leading
• Doubling Concerns in 7th Chords
• Figured Bass
• Figured Bass and Roman Numerals
• Studying with Bach
• “Realizing” Figured Bass
• The Pre-Dominant Phrasing Area
• Moving from Root Position IV to V Without Parallels
• Predominant 7th Chords
• Harmonization Steps
• Finding Cadences
• Finding the Right Chord Progression
• Finding the Right Inversions
• The Cadential 6/4
• Chord Function
• Writing Cadential 6/4 Chords
• Neighboring 6/4 Chords
• Pedal 6/4 Chords
• Writing Neighboring 6/4 Chords
• The Arpeggiating 6/4 Chord
• Parallelism in Music
• New Analysis Notations
• The V7 as a Tonic Expansion
• Other V7 Expansions
• The Double-Neighbor V7 Expansion
• Submediant Expansions
• Chord Progression Sequences
• Descending Fifth Progressions
• Descending Sequences in Minor
• Other Fifth Related Sequences
• Making a Quick Key Change
• Part-Writing with Descending Fifth Sequences
• Descending Third Sequences
• Descending Thirds in Minor
• Ascending Third Progressions
• Progressions by Second
• 4-Voiced Progressions by Second
• Analysis: Canon in D
• Analysis: Bach, Cello Suite No. 1
• Finding Chords in Monophonic Music
• Finding Chord Function in Bach
• Secondary Dominant
• Toniciziation
• Key Modulation
• Changing Keys
• Practicing Harmonization
• Melodies for Practice
• Worksheets and Music for Practice
• …and much, much more!