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ScoreClub Reference Guide ECTF

The document serves as a reference guide for essential music composition training, covering foundational concepts such as voicing, voice-leading, and chord functions. It includes topics like harmonic scales, cadences, and various chord progressions, along with practical techniques for composing and arranging music. The guide is structured into parts, each focusing on specific aspects of music theory and composition techniques.

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ScoreClub Reference Guide ECTF

The document serves as a reference guide for essential music composition training, covering foundational concepts such as voicing, voice-leading, and chord functions. It includes topics like harmonic scales, cadences, and various chord progressions, along with practical techniques for composing and arranging music. The guide is structured into parts, each focusing on specific aspects of music theory and composition techniques.

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ESSENTIAL COMPOSER

Ò
ItÕs not because you see it
that you can do itÓ
TRAINING: FOUNDATIONS
REFERENCE GUIDE

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From Part I - “Voicing From Part I - From Part II -


& Voice-Leading” “Subdominant” “Figuration”
The harmonic series: Harmonic Minor Scale:
A group of notes naturally Figuration:
Raising the leading tone (7th
occurring from a Decoration of a musical line
scale degree) when
(Passing Tone, Neighbour Tone,
fundamental. harmonising. Arpeggiation, etc.).

Cadences:
Voice-Leading: Group of chords happening at
The concept of going to the the end of a musical phrase. From Part II -
next logical note. (Perfect, Imperfect, Plagal, Deceptive)
(Motions: Parallel, Similar, “Composing Out”
Oblique, Contrary)
From Part I - “Mediant Composing Out:
& Dominant 7” Expanding homorhythmic
Voicing:
SATB writing using simple
SATB (Chorale) & Keyboard
arranging techniques like
writing. Root Progression:
repeated notes, pulses,
Grouping (or Gestalt). How the root tone of each
octaves, rests...
Doubling concepts. chord progresses from one
chord to another (descending 5th,
3rd, etc.).
From Part I - “Tonic &
4-3 Rule: From Part II - “7th
Dominant”
The 4th scale degree will Chords”
resolve to the 3rd scale degree
7-1 Rule: on a dominant 7th-chord. 7th Chords:
The 7th scale degree Adding the 7th to our triads.
should always resolve to Tertian harmony: harmony
the Tonic. From Part II - “Inversions” based on stacking 3rds.

Inversions:
Chord Functions: Voicing your chords differently Shell Voicing:
Tonic Pre-Dominant than with the tonic in the bass A chord containing only the
Dominant. (Beware of the cadential 6/4). Root, 3rd, and 7th.

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