Welcome to Try This! Your weekly look at a partimenti rule. This week we are going to continue with the Rule of the Octave (RO), but in minor. Dun, dun, dun, daaaaaaa. That’s not just a sound effect, the oh-so-famous opening of Beethoven’s 5th Symphony, which starts with 20 bars of RO harmony in C […]
Welcome to Try This! Your weekly look at a partimenti rule. This week we are going to start with the Rule of the Octave (RO)! If you don’t know the RO it is the most useful musical pattern that shows up in music from Bach to Taylor Swift. The Rule of the Octave Don’t think
Welcome to Try This! Your weekly look at a partimenti rule. This week we are looking at an example of a rule from the reperetoire. Last week we looked at the ascending 7-6 sequence. If you haven’t worked that through, you can find it here. Check out how Mozart uses the ascending 7-6 sequence in
The previous post was about the descending 7-6 sequence. and now we’re going to check out the ascending 7-6 sequence So grab your instrument and let’s try it! The Ascending 7-6 Sequence. Are you up for a challenge? Try transposing the ascending 7-6 sequence to D minor and F major. Play with the meter. Do
