Using a Common Note in Harmony - Music Composition

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How to convert a less than satisfactory passage of harmony into a passage that works much better. In particular, there is a focus on how to use common notes (common tones) to maintain stability in the part writing when moving from one chord to the next. The video illustrates how to use the nearest available note when a common note is not available. By following this guidance your part writing will quickly improve and you will discover how effective is this approach in avoiding breaking the advisory ‘rules’ of harmony.
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0:00 - Introduction to using a common note in harmony
1:53 - Original passage
8:18 - Refining the music with common notes
11:52 - Using nearby notes
17:25 - Conclusion
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@carlstenger5893 Год назад

I can’t speak for every composition student; but when I took composition at university (40+ years ago), my professor OVER EMPHASIZED the concept and practice of writing parts with contrary motion. Consequently, most of the students (in my class) produced four part harmony that looked exactly like your first example. Provided they had not violated any of the cardinal sins (parallel 5ths or octaves, doubling the third, etc), they would receive high (if not top) marks for their submissions. Because I had been singing in choirs for a dozen years by then, my submissions always had parts with reasonably singable lines. As a result , cardinal sin errors occasionally crept into my submissions. That still happens every once in a while ( but far less frequently than it did in the beginning). Your courses are the reason that I’m doing so much better at it. Thanks so much!

@MusicMattersGB Год назад

You’re too kind Carl. It’s interesting looking back at how one was taught and how that can be put in context with the passage of time.

@mgbchoralmusic6443 Год назад

Great refresher! I always try to make sure that my voice parts are as singable and natural as possible.

@MusicMattersGB Год назад

Excellent

@ftumschk Год назад

Thanks for sharing your thought process! As a chorister, I know which version I'd prefer to sing :)

@MusicMattersGB Год назад

Indeed!

@oldepersonne Год назад

Thank you for your brilliant (as usual) communication skills.

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@ltb1919 Год назад

Gareth is a superb teacher.

@MusicMattersGB Год назад

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@MusicMattersGB Год назад

A pleasure

@NomeDeArte Год назад

Amazing! Thank you

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@32dineshkumar Год назад

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@davedave8608 Год назад

thank you

@MusicMattersGB Год назад

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@jayducharme Год назад

When I write choral pieces, I often try singing each part to see where my voice wants to go. If the line moves where I instinctively want to sing it, then other singers will probably find it more natural to sing. I've never enjoyed singing pieces that jump all over the place. BTW, a bit off-topic, but when you were talking about moving from note to note, I thought of chess and the dangers of moving too far afield early in the game. It's often smarter to stay closer to home, where you have other pieces to support you.

@MusicMattersGB Год назад

Good analogy

@canman5060 Год назад

Good thinking.

@MusicMattersGB Год назад

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@martinbennett2228 Год назад

To my ear, the problem with low close intervals between the tenor and bass lines (with a big gap to alto and soprano) is that it produces dissonant harmonics. Of course there could be reasons to want this as an accentuation, but it usually sounds 'muddy'.

@MusicMattersGB Год назад

It certainly makes for muddy textures.

@markchapman6800 Год назад

I quite liked the sound of the series of 3rds in the alto in the first version, particularly given the the resulting opportunity to fill them in with passing notes 😊 My only quibble with the improved version is that, from beat 3 to 4 in bar 1, the altos and tenors move by leap to a dissonance (tritone), which isn't ideal. Doubling the 5th of the chord (D) on beat 3 would make the alto E on beat 4 slightly less perilous, since they would then move by step. The tenors' D-Bb-A is such a common gesture that they would probably be strong on it regardless.

@MusicMattersGB Год назад

It’s great to explore all the possibilities.

@crpope10 Год назад

Fell into this rabbit hole on the way here; "The Fully Diminished Seventh as Pivot Chord"

@MusicMattersGB Год назад

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@texanfrog1750 Год назад

Hello Gareth!

@MusicMattersGB Год назад

@ECHQ Год назад

Thanks a lot. Very useful as always. But isn't the parallel movement in the soprano/alto voices considered "to be avoided" or "boring"? I think you mentioned this a few videos ago.

@MusicMattersGB Год назад

Parallel movement between S/A often happens but we need to try to avoid parallel 5ths and 8ves. Parallel movement between top and bottom parts is something that we need to be more careful with.

@luiginomarchetto309 Год назад

I'm looking for ward to seeing a video on Ostinatos.

@MusicMattersGB Год назад

😀

@vannigio6234 Год назад

💥🐻💥🐻👍👍👍... well... i like the first way too, maybe because dodecafonic/serial/jazz/punk music filling my head... 🌋🚀🌋🚀🎸🎷🎸🎷

@MusicMattersGB Год назад

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@FrankMGarcía Год назад

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@MusicMattersGB Год назад

Thank you

@canman5060 Год назад

When I was taught music harmony in the past , I was instructed to avoid parallel thirds and parallel fifths because they don't fall within the rules of harmony.Is this the exception in the seond example ?

@MusicMattersGB Год назад

Parallel 3rds are often good. It’s parallel perfect 5ths and octaves we try to avoid.

@canman5060 Год назад

@@MusicMattersGB Parallel 5ths sounds like Oriental Eastern harmony used very often in Chinese music.

@MusicMattersGB Год назад

Yes

@m.walther6434 Год назад

Convincing arguments regarding the usage of common notes. On the other hand, using to much common notes may degrade the inner voices to filler material, loosing their function as an independence voice, I wonder.

@MusicMattersGB Год назад

There’s a balance to be achieved

@canman5060 Год назад

Common note prompted me to think about the use of suspension in harmony.

@MusicMattersGB Год назад

😀

@luiginomarchetto309 Год назад

What is meant by "Ostinatos"?

@MusicMattersGB Год назад

Repeated patterns

@luiginomarchetto309 Год назад

@@MusicMattersGB Have you done a video, explainingOstinatos?