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Unit 3: Performance and music language
Quick questions on Tonality, modulation and key relationships in VCE Music
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What is hearing a tonal centre?Show answer
A tonal centre is the note that feels like home, the one a melody wants to rest on. You can test for it by humming where the music seems to want to finish. In tonal music the final chord and the bass line strongly imply the tonic. If no note ever feels like a resting point, the music may be atonal or in transit between keys.
What are describing key relationships?Show answer
When you name a modulation, describe the relationship, not just the new key letter. Saying the music moves to the dominant or to the relative minor tells the marker you understand the structural function. The same destination can be described two ways, and the relational term is the more analytical one.
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