Lesson 29 January 28th, 2022 Lesson 29 Lecture notes: Fugues are opening melodic ideas that become the theme of a song and are explored or variated as the song progresses. Fugues are done in no less than two voices and can range up to five voices . A subject is the opening melodic line or phrase in a fugue or invention . This opening line establishes the key / mood of a song and is imitated throughout the various voices in the music. The point of imitation is when a melodic idea is played in one voice and then answered by another voice with the same idea . The point of imitation is an octave apart in an invention and is a fifth and octave apart in the first two points of a fugue . The subject of a fugue is followed by an answer or countersubject , which comes in two forms , namely real answers and tonal answers . They are usually transposed up a fifth or down a fourth . A real answer is a melodic idea that is an identical t...
Lesson 36 April 1st, 2022 Lesson 36 The photo above consists of three diminished scales: Bb diminished, C diminished, and D diminished. In addition, there are three melodic modal minor scales: A Dorian melodic minor, A Lydian melodic minor, and A Mixolydian melodic minor. This is me playing the various scales from the photo above the video.
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