CHOOSE ONE OF THE BELOW TOPICS FOR ESSAY OR DISCUSSION
1. Discuss several ways in which harmony is achieved through homophonic and polyphonic texture.
2. How are the three textures used in today’s popular music? Give examples of each from artists who have recorded after the year 2000. From the 90s? From the 80s?
3. Describe how dissonance is used in a popular rock, rap, or jazz piece. Is dissonance constant throughout the piece or does it help articulate the form through opposition with consonance?
ANSWER CRITICAL THINKING QUESTIONS
1. Name three melodies that could be harmonized using I, IV, and V chords.
California King Bed, Clean, and Hello.
2. Ask a friend to join you in singing these rounds:
a. “Row, Row, Row Your Boat”
b. “Are You Sleeping, Brother John?”
3. What other rounds do you know? “Itsy Bitsy Spider”
3. Using a keyboard instrument, play harmonies that use only these intervals:
a. seconds
b. thirds
c. fourths
d. fifths
4. Do some of these harmonies seem more consonant or dissonant than others? Why?
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