Grade 7 Music Theory, Unit 9, Lesson 3 of 5
Brainlag Music

Modulating in the second phrase

Music theory, Melody writing, 12 minutes

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Bringing in the new key's leading note and closing there.

The new leading note

G sharp, the new leading note, rises to A

Bring the new key's leading note in from bar 5 or 6 and let it rise to the new tonic. Moving from a minor key to its relative major, leave out the old raised 7th.

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End bar 8 on the new tonic, reached by step: from its leading note below or the note above.

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