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    This document provides a list of musical devices and concepts for A2 Listening Techniques. It covers melodic devices, harmonic devices, textural devices, cadences, modulations, tonality, chords, and techniques for strengthening listening skills. Key points include distinguishing unison from octaves, recognizing perfect versus imperfect cadences, modulating to related keys, and different types of intervals, pedal notes, appoggiaturas, and modulations.

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    This document provides a list of musical devices and concepts for A2 Listening Techniques. It covers melodic devices, harmonic devices, textural devices, cadences, modulations, tonality, chords, and techniques for strengthening listening skills. Key points include distinguishing unison from octaves, recognizing perfect versus imperfect cadences, modulating to related keys, and different types of intervals, pedal notes, appoggiaturas, and modulations.

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    A2 Listening Techniques

    Melodic Devices
    Accented passing notes
    Chromatic appoggiatura
    Augmentation
    Diminution
    Portamento
    Harmonic Devices

    Cycle of fifths
    Suspension
    Sequence

    Textural Devices

    Octaves

    Students often confuse unison and octaves. Some use the term unison
    octaves which is a contradiction in terms. Make sure you know and can hear
    the difference.
    Cadences

    No additional cadences, but be prepared for a tierce de Picardie.


    Cadences can now occur in related keys. You now need to have the new
    tonic of the related key in mind. Take extra care and do practice
    recognising the difference between a perfect cadence in the dominant key
    and an imperfect cadence in the home key. Remember, a perfect cadence
    has movement from the leading note to the tonic in the last two chords,
    and an imperfect cadence does not.

    Modulations

    To the dominant minor


    The tonic minor
    The major of the relative minor

    Tonality

    Modality
    Bitonality
    Atonality
    Twelve note
    Whole tone

    Chords
    Diminished 7th
    Augmented 6th
    Secondary 7ths
    Dominant 7ths in 3rd inversion

    Strengthening your listening test technique


    Melodic intervals
    A 4th, 5th and octave should be recognised quickly, rather than being
    worked out by counting the notes in between. You can only do this by
    constant practice of singing them both out loud and in your head.
    Modulations

    A modulation to the dominant has a definite feeling of wanting to return to


    the tonic immediately. The subdominant has a much more settled feeling
    when it arrives.

    Pedal Notes

    The two types are very different; the tonic pedal, when in the bass part,
    gives a strong feeling of being rooted to the spot; the dominant pedal
    gives a feeling of anticipation making you look forward to arriving
    eventually in the tonic.

    Appoggiaturas

    These are sometimes described as leaning notes or musical sighs,


    especially if they are in their most common form of moving downwards.

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