Music Theory Level 2: Part Eleven

Welcome to Music Theory Level 2: Part Eleven

Melody, Motives and Phrases

In this course you will develop your capacity to identify and appreciate the use of melody, motives, musical phrases and sentences. This course forms part of the complete Music Theory Fundamentals Guide.

This is a class designed for the average person who is ready to take their music career (or music interest) and turn it into a business. Whether you are an active musician, an aspiring musician, or an aspiring music manager or agent - this class is perfect for you.

For years I've been teaching Music Theory in the college classroom. My approach to music theory is to minimize the memorization. Most of these concepts you can learn by just understanding why chords behave in certain ways. Once you understand those concepts, you can find any scale, key, or chord that exists. Even invent your own. If you've tried to learn music theory before, or if you are just starting out - this series of courses is the perfect fit.

In Part 11: Melodies, Motives and Phrases we will cover:

• Tools of Music Theory
• Why phrases are important
• Identifying Phrases
• Finding Motives
• Labeling Motives and Phrases
• Melody Augmentation
• Melody Diminution
• Melody Inversion
• Melody Extension and Truncation
• Countour, Rhythm, Transposition, and Interval Alterations
• Harmonizing altered melodies
• Musical Sentences
• Musical Periods
• Antecedents
• Consequents
• Performing Phrases
• Hypermeter
• Phrase Rhythm

You will not have another opportunity to learn Music Theory in a more comprehensive way than this. All the tools you need to successfully learn Music Theory are included in this course and the entire course is based on real-life experiences - not just academic theory.

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• Sentences (The musical kind)
• Now let's take another step in our musical gramatology and learn about musical sentences.
• Motives
• Let's drill down a little deeper and look at Motives.
• Welcome & Overview
• Welcome to the class! A few things to get out of the way before we dive in.
• Hypermeter
• A fun sounding word - this has to do with the shape of a melody.
• Musical Periods
• Next, the period. It isn't exactly what you might think.
• Identifying Phrases
• First, let's define what a "phrase" is, and how to spot them.
• Playing with Motives
• Once we identify motives, you can do a few tricks with them.
• Vocabulary
• We learned a lot of terms in this class, so let's go over them all one more time to make sure we've got it.