7, but with variation in rhythm and contour, so it called a variation (V). So, we indicate both relationships in the score. It is also a variation on the music in bar 6. Bar 6 looks like a repetition of bar 9 at a different pitch level. Bar 9 looks a lot like bar 5, but is decorated with a grace note and has a different rhythm. Bar 6 repeats bar 5 starting on a different pitch level, so is labeled as a repetition (R). Bar 5 begins with material that we haven’t yet seen, so is labeled N for new material. Because it includes these changes, but is still recognizably related to the music of the first two bars, we call bars 3-4 a variation. 3 also includes a pickup note that was not part of the original material. Instead of descending for the first interval, it ascends. It has changes in the shape of the line (contour). It is also not the same material repeated at a different pitch level. It is not exactly the same, so it is not a direct repetition. 3 of the example above, we see material that looks very similar to the opening two bars. New material continues until a variation or repetition is seen. The first notes of the composition are considered new material because nothing else has happened yet to compare them to. Let’s look at an example and listen to the recording to see how these three options are used in the example below. A repetition of the melodic material takes the original material and either repeats it so that it is exactly the same, or repeats it so that it is primarily the same but is transposed so that it starts on a different pitch. A variation sounds and looks similar to the original material, but is not exactly the same. It could have decorative notes, or changes in rhythm and contour, for example. A variation takes the original material and changes aspects of it. New material is melodic material that has not yet been seen in the music. The options available to a composer writing melodic material include: create a new idea, vary the idea, or repeat the idea. It is probably better demonstrated than written down.7.2 Melodic Material: Create/Vary/Repeat and Sequences: Tutorial Melodic Variation and Repetition Or take modulations to the dominant and sub-dominant in minor keys, which are quite unlike modulations from minor keys: in minor keys the dominant feels far away (and if you can make it a major chord in your head, it will sound dominant-y, but the modulation to the sub-dominant often feels like a shot of caffeine, because the most obvious way to the sub-dominant is through its dominanat a.k.a. an interrupted cadence feels like it is going to be a perfect cadence, until suddenly, at the last moment, the rug is pulled from under your feet. At Grade 1, if you can’t decide whether the music is in two or three beats in the bar, it is likely in three - one of the characteristics of man being bi-pedal, is that we find two beats in the bar more obvious, in my experience.įor cadences and modulations at Grades 7 and 8, I am a great believer in being familiar with what they feel like, rather than trying to work them out mechanically, e.g. (Entrainment is a deeply embedded reaction to music, and is rarely wrong). Sometimes it is simple little things that make the difference: for example, if you can’t clap the beat for early grades, try tapping your foot. Sometimes, other instrumental teachers are reluctant to take their students through practice aural tests for the higher grades - perhaps because of a lack of lesson time, or because the tests need advanced keyboard skills to administer them.Ī lot of the time, there is a technique for tackling the questions, and you simply have to learn how to do it and practice. Fergus Black prepares students for aural tests at Grades 6,7 and 8, and for auditions.
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