Grade 6 Music Theory, Unit 15, Lesson 2 of 6
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Cadences in context

Music theory, Analysing an extract, 15 minutes

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Every cadence as it appears inside a real phrase, perfect, imperfect, plagal and interrupted, and the chords just before them, with a way of checking each answer.

Find the end of the phrase first

The phrase mark ends in bar 4: the cadence is the last two chords, in bars 3 and 4

A cadence is the last two chords of a phrase: find where the phrase ends, then name those two chords.

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Find the phrase's end from its phrase mark, a rest, a long note or the bar numbers in the question ("the first phrase, bar 4"). Then name the two chords exactly as you named the marked chords: collect, stack, read the bass.

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