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Library AP Music Theory Unit 6: Harmony and Voice Leading III: Embellishments, Motives, and Melodic Devices
⁂   AP Music Theory · Unit 6

6. Harmony and Voice Leading III: Embellishments, Motives, and Melodic Devices

Key topics: Passing tones (accented and unaccented), Neighbor tones (upper and lower), Anticipations, Escape tones (échappées), Appoggiaturas, Pedal points, Suspensions and retardations (4-3, 7-6, 9-8, 2-3 bass suspension), Motive and motivic transformation (inversion, retrograde, augmentation, diminution), Melodic sequence, Harmonic sequence.

12 instructional periods standard track

Unit 6: Harmony and Voice Leading III: Embellishments, Motives, and Melodic Devices

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Topics in this unit

  • Passing tones (accented and unaccented)
  • Neighbor tones (upper and lower)
  • Anticipations
  • Escape tones (échappées)
  • Appoggiaturas
  • Pedal points
  • Suspensions and retardations (4-3, 7-6, 9-8, 2-3 bass suspension)
  • Motive and motivic transformation (inversion, retrograde, augmentation, diminution)
  • Melodic sequence
  • Harmonic sequence