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Music Fundamentals II: Minor Scales and Key Signatures, Melody, Timbre, and Texture

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  1. 01Music Fundamentals I: Pitch, Major Scales and Key Signatures, Rhythm, Meter, and Expressive Elements10
  2. 02Music Fundamentals II: Minor Scales and Key Signatures, Melody, Timbre, and Texture13
  3. 03Music Fundamentals III: Triads and Seventh Chords5
  4. 04Harmony and Voice Leading I: Chord Function, Cadence, and Phrase5
  5. 05Harmony and Voice Leading II: Chord Progressions and Predominant Function7
  6. 06Harmony and Voice Leading III: Embellishments, Motives, and Melodic Devices7
  7. 07Harmony and Voice Leading IV: Secondary Function4
  8. 08Modes and Form3
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13 lessons in this unit

  1. 2.1Minor Scales: Natural, Harmonic, and MelodicOpen lesson
  2. 2.2Relative Keys: Determining Relative Minor Key and Notating Key SignaturesOpen lesson
  3. 2.3Key Relationships: Parallel, Closely Related, and Distantly Related KeysOpen lesson
  4. 2.4Other Scales: Chromatic, Whole-Tone, and PentatonicOpen lesson
  5. 2.5Interval Size and QualityOpen lesson
  6. 2.6Interval Inversion and Compound IntervalsOpen lesson
  7. 2.7Transposing InstrumentsOpen lesson
  8. 2.8TimbreOpen lesson
  9. 2.9Melodic FeaturesOpen lesson
  10. 2.10Melodic TranspositionOpen lesson
  11. 2.11Texture and Texture TypesOpen lesson
  12. 2.12Texture DevicesOpen lesson
  13. 2.13Rhythmic DevicesOpen lesson

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