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Grade 6 Course
A1. Introduction to Harmony

A2. Triads and Chords

A2. Triads and Chords Exercises

A3. Inversions

A3. Inversions Exercises

A4. Chord Progressions

A4. Chord Progressions Exercises

A5. Melodic Decoration

A5. Melodic Decoration Exercises

A6. Harmonizing a Melody I

A7. Harmonizing a Melody II

A6 & A7. Harmonising a Melody Exercises

A8. Figured Bass an Introduction

A8. Figured Bass Introduction - Exercises

A9. Figured Bass Rules for Realization

A9. Figured Bass Rules Exercises

A10. Figured Bass Worked Example

A10. Realising a Figured Bass - Exercises

A11. Adding a Figured Bassline

A11. Adding a Figured Bass - Exercises

The Rules of Harmony

B0. Composition - Introduction

B1. Composition - Architecture

B1. Composition Architecture Exercises

B2. Composition - Motifs & Sequences

B2. Composition Motifs and Melodic Sequence Exercises

B3. Composition - Cadences

B3. Composition Cadences Exercises

B4. Composition - Interpolation

B4. Composition Interpolation Exercises

B5. Composition - Key and Tonality

B5. Composition Key and Tonality Exercises

B6. Composition - Modulation

B6. Composition - Modulation Exercises

B7. Composition - How to Compose

B7. Composition How to Compose Exercises

C1a. Reading an Orchestral Score

C1a. Reading an Orchestral Score Exercises

C1b. Reading a Chamber Music Score

C1b. Reading a Chamber Music Score Exercises

C2a. Musical Instruments, Families and Names

C2a. Musical Instruments, Families and Names - Exercises

C2b. Transposing, Reed & String Instruments

C2b. Musical Instruments,Transposing, Reed and Strings - Exercises

C3. Musical Terms and Signs

C3. Musical Terms and Signs - Exercises

C4. Commenting on Music

C4. Commenting on Music - Exercises

C5. Key

C5. Keys - Exercises

C6a. Naming Chords

C6b. Chords in a Score

C6. Naming Chords - Exercises

C7a. Ornaments

C7a. Ornaments Exercises

C7b. Melodic Decoration and Pedals

C7b. Melodic Decoration and Pedals Exercises

C8. Technical Exercises

C8. Technical Exercises - Exercises

C9. Periods and Composers

C9. Periods and Composers Exercises

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A1. Introduction to Harmony

Written by Victoria Williams

Category: Grade 6 Online Course

Last Updated: 23 October 2014

Created: 16 July 2010

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Grade Six Music Theory - Harmony Lesson 1:

Introduction

What is Harmony?
The first three questions in the ABRSM Grade Six Music Theory Exam are all about harmony - but
what exactly do we mean by "harmony"?
When we look at music with our analytical hats on, we can think about it in two different ways. We
can look at it from left to right - this is the melody and rhythm.
Or, we can look at it from top to bottom - this is the harmony.

For example, here are a few bars by Bach from his "O haupt voll Blut und Wunden".
There are 4 melodic lines (or "voices") here, the soprano, alto, tenor and bass.

On each beat of the bar, those four voices combine to make chords. The science of how we
combine notes into chords, and how the chords work together, is called "harmony".

Tonal Harmony
For Grade 6, we are going to study Tonal Harmony. This just means that we're going to focus on
the kinds of chords used by composers from roughly the 17th to the 19th centuries - composers
like Bach, Mozart, Haydn and Schubert.

Grade Six Harmony

In this part of the course we're going to study:
How chords are built
Different naming systems to describe chords
Chord inversions
Chord progressions and cadences
How to choose chords to harmonize a melody (Q.1a in the exam)
How to understand "figured bass" (which is a chord short-hand system)
How to complete a bass line and add a suitable figured bass (Q.1b in the exam)
How to recognise "melodic decoration" (which means notes which aren't part of the main
chords)
How to realise a figured bass (Q.2 in the exam)

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