Harmonic Idioms at the Keyboard(1)

TH101 - Seth Monahan

TASK QUIZ No. 4 THREE-CHORD HARMONIC IDIOMS For Task Quiz no. 4 (Thursday, 11/13), you will play one of the 3-chord harmonic idioms shown below. A detailed description follows underneath the progressions. 1. Passing chord links I and I6 [REVERSIBLE!]

& ˙˙˙ ? ˙ I

˙˙˙ ˙ V$

3. Passing chord links V and I6

˙ & ˙˙ ? ˙ V

˙˙ ˙ ˙

V%

w w w

2. Arpeggiating chord links I and I6

˙˙

w w

˙

w

w

& ˙˙ ˙ ? ˙

˙˙ ˙

w w w w

Ifl

I

V#

I

w

& ˙˙ ˙ ? ˙

Ifl

I

w w w

IVfl

Ifl

4. Neighbor chord to tonic

˙

OPTION 1: IN-CLASS PERFORMANCE If you wish to perform in class, your TA will give you a 3-note bass segment (e.g., “1–2–3”). You must then play the appropriate progression as shown above—without a written supplement—while singing the bass line. As with Task Quiz 3, this option includes an assessment of peer performance. Once you’ve finished playing/singing, you will stand aside while a classmate comes to the piano for their evaluation. Once they’ve played, you must decide—by sight and/or sound—whether what they did was correct. If your assessment is correct, you get to keep your original grade. If you’re off, then your grade receives a “minus”. (So “A” becomes “A-”, etc.)

OPTION 2: VIDEO SUBMISSION If you like, you may submit a video instead of performing in class. In that case, you will play ALL FOUR progressions, one after the other, in a single take. While you play, you must also sing the bass lines on scale degrees.