Tuesday, September 19, 2023

Musical theory behind Bach Prelude in CMaj

 Theory explained https://andrewhennington.wordpress.com/2015/10/22/j-s-bach-prelude-no-1-in-c-major-bwv-846/

Tonic cord - the root cord

Supersonic: the second note in a normal 8 note (heptatonic: 7 pitches) scale

Phrase- usually 4 bars long, ending in some form of a cadence. The first phrase ends in a imperfect authentic cadence 

Authentic cadence goes from the dominant to the tonic. Perfect cadence has tonic the highest tone in the final cord. Imperfect does 

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Google Colab first program, Hello World

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