Chorale rules

Chorale is meant to be sung not played on the Piano. with the left hand – so keep the tenor part high. you do jump it should be very small jumps. The only large gap should be between the tenor and bass.

1. What are the steps for harmonizing a chorale melody?
2. What is the characteristics of chorale?
3. What is chorale harmonization?

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.

1. Step 1: mark where the cadences appear. ...
2. Step 2: work out the tonic key of the chorale. ...
3. Step 3: work out possible cadences for each phrase and a possible approach chord.

What is the characteristics of chorale?

Chorales tend to be simple and singable tunes. The words are often sung to a rhyming scheme and are in a strophic form (the same melody used for different verses). Within a verse, many chorales follow the AAB pattern of melody that is known as the German bar form.

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)