Chapter 4. Minor Keys and the Diatonic Modes BASIC ELEMENTS

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1 Chapte 4 Supplementay Execises - 1 Chapte 4 Mino Keys and the Diatonic Modes BASIC ELEMENTS I. Witing mino scales: Relative majo and mino A. Fo each majo key below, wite out the majo scale on the left-hand side of the staff, using the coect key signatue. Cicle scale-degee ^6. Now, on the ight-hand side, wite out a new scale that begins on the pitch class you cicled (you may have to move it down an octave), with the same key signatue. Wite the name of this elative-mino scale on the line indicated. F majo: Relative key:?? A majo: Relative key:

2 Chapte 4 Supplementay Execises - 2 B. Beginning on the pitch given, build a (natual) mino scale by detemining the key signatue of its elative majo. Add flats o shaps in font of the emaining pitches, accoding to that key signatue. (Remembe: The elative majo s tonic lies thee half steps and thee lette names above the mino-key tonic.) On the ight-hand side of the staff, wite the key signatue of the elative majo and name the key.? # w w w w w w w w? Gƒ Gs majo: mino Relative majo: Dƒ Ds mino: mino # w w w w w w w w Relative majo:

3 Chapte 4 Supplementay Execises - 3 C. Fill in the blanks with the missing infomation. The elative majo of G mino has how many flats? The paallel majo of C mino has how many flats? The elative mino of E Majo is... The paallel mino of Cƒ Majo has how many shaps? The elative mino of Aß Majo is... The paallel majo of D mino has how many shaps? The elative majo of Gƒ mino is... The elative mino of Bß Majo has how many flats?

4 Chapte 4 Supplementay Execises - 4 II. Foms of the mino scale On the blank staves below, wite the coect key signatue fo each mino key indicated. (Place the shaps and flats in the coect ode and octave!) Then wite out that scale, ascending o descending, alteing scale-degees ^6 and ^7 as needed. B hamonic, descending A melodic, ascending F hamonic, ascending? Gƒ hamonic, descending

5 Chapte 4 Supplementay Execises - 5 III. Scale degees in mino A. Given the scale degee notated and labeled below, wite the est of the mino scale to which the pitch belongs. Use natual mino, unless the aised submediant o leading tone is given. Begin by witing whole notes on the lines and spaces above and below the given pitch, then fill in the necessay accidentals. Do not change the given pitch. # w bw aised submediant subdominant # w? #w tonic dominant

6 Chapte 4 Supplementay Execises - 6 B. Fo each key listed in the left column, wite the pitch-class name of the scale degee given in the middle column. Fƒ mino dominant B mino ^2 C mino subtonic F mino ^6 Cƒ mino leading tone A mino ^4 Bß mino ^3 D mino dominant

7 Chapte 4 Supplementay Execises - 7 WRITING EXERCISES Witing melodies fom scale degees A. The sequence of solfège syllables below epesents a mino-key melody. An undelined syllable shows a pitch below the tonic. On the staff, in the key equested, wite out the melody (hythm is optional). If you know the name of the tune, wite it in the blank povided. Then indicate one of the following: P, P+, PT, o TP. do ti do e me e me fa sol me sol fa e fa sol me sol? G mino Name of melody: Cicle one: P P+ PT TP B. Wite out anothe mino-key folk tune in solfège o scale-degee notation. Tade with you classmates and ask them to guess which tune you have witten.

8 Chapte 4 Supplementay Execises - 8 ANALYSIS Bief analysis A. Majo, mino, o modal? Play o sing the taditional folk-song melody below. Then, on the blank povided, indicate the majo key, mino key, o mode that is used in the melody. Include the lette name of the fist scale degee (fo example, G Doian). Scots Wha Hae (ignoe the bagpipe s gace notes!) # # c # # Name of key o mode:

9 Chapte 4 Supplementay Execises - 9 B. Scale and key identification The following piece featues a pominent scale o scale segment as pat of its melody. Name the key. If it s mino, be sue to name the fom of mino scale used in the passage. Heny Pucell, Music fo a While, final measues c J # J J w all, all, shall all you caes be - guile.? c c # n # # w w Key and scale type:

crotchets Now transpose it up to E minor here! 4. Add the missing bar lines and a time signature to this melody

crotchets Now transpose it up to E minor here! 4. Add the missing bar lines and a time signature to this melody Scale: Semeste 1, 015 x e Scale: buy a pig. in this line of poety.. Place an upight lineiinwent fontto of maket accentedtowods ofat syllables. Wite se intevalsiabove given tonictonotes went to maket buy