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- What is chorale harmonization?
- What is true of a Bach chorale?
- What are the steps for harmonizing a chorale melody?
What is chorale harmonization?
Chorale is the name of several related musical forms originating in the music genre of the Lutheran chorale: ... Such a tune presented in a homophonic or homorhythmic harmonisation, usually four-part harmony (e.g. Bach's four-part chorales, or the chorale included in the second movement of Mahler's Fifth Symphony)
What is true of a Bach chorale?
Bach's chorales are strictly choral arrangements of well-known hymn tunes adorned with elaborate harmony; he never composed an original chorale. In modern times the chorale is considered to be a musical setting, usually polyphonic, of a traditional religious text.
What are the steps for harmonizing a chorale melody?
The first few steps given here are designed to make the chorale more approachable and to make its structure easier to understand.
- Step 1: mark where the cadences appear. ...
- Step 2: work out the tonic key of the chorale. ...
- Step 3: work out possible cadences for each phrase and a possible approach chord.
