Harmonic features - Music 2 (1 Viewer)

[sambo_rambo]

Hi everyone,
I've come across a number of hsc papers where they ask you for harmonic features, usually from a given score extract. All I can ever think of are lame things like:
Repeated use of a certain interval
Grace notes
Pedal points
Melodic ostinatos
Can anyone think of any others?
Thanks,
Sam

 

[bernz]

how about things like prallel fourths/fifths/ocaves, dissonance, pedal points, etc?

 

[demosthenes]

modes are good to talk about if you can identify them.....

 

[floyd_pepper]

why are grace notes harmonic features?

 

[Phanatical]

Harmonic features are, off the top of my head, things like (but not limited to) Overall Form - Binary, Ternary, Sonata etc. Relationships between movements (including keys). Things like harmonic progressions, sequences, cadences - and the more specific the better. Tonal structures (atonality, homophony, polyphony) and their significance according to certain musical periods and styles (atonality, for example, is most associated with the early 20th century, and specifically composers such as Schonberg, Berg and Webern), and specific movements (Serialism, Neoclassicism, Electronic Music (Music Concrete). More as I think them.

 

[sambo_rambo]

Thanks for that. For say, the Music 2 paper where we get a 2 minute excerpt, would those more simple things be adequate?

 

[sambo_rambo]

why are grace notes harmonic features?

I don't know... It was a random idea, but come to think of it they are not a particularly good example. Sorry.

 

[ujuphleg]

Grace notes are considered to be a harmonic feature because they provide clashes and resolves in terms of intervals whilst playing.