Major is a harmony with a smile

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

Everyone knows what music is. First of all, it is harmony, that is, harmony, orderliness and consistency of sound. But it is impossible to get music by pressing which piano keys you have to. As in a joke:

- Can you play the violin?

- I don't know, haven't tried it. Maybe I can.

Sounds funny, doesn't it? Indeed, to create music, first of all, harmony is needed. Where to look for it? In the relationship between sounds of different heights! Only then will the necessary harmony and harmony be obtained.

Steps fret

Sing softly to any familiar music (it doesn't matter if it's a children's song, a modern dance, a military march, or a theme from some famous symphony). Try to stop in one place, then in another. It will immediately be clear that in some places it is simply impossible to complete a musical thought. Not at all because the words of the song did not end or the dance movement was not completed.

The sounds themselves do not give rest, because some of them are stable, while others are unstable and drive the music further with all their might, they seem to be standing on one leg, and some are also on tiptoe. When sounds of different heights are combined and lined up as if in height - one after another, a harmony is obtained. Sounding light, sunny - major. This is if you play all the keys in a row from one note "to" to "to" the next. Remember how it sounds and mark two semitones. It turns out the note "C-major". This is the only major that does not require black keys. And if you play from "la" to the next "la" - you get a minor mode, more "dark" in sound, like rainy weather. The first sound (first step) fret - tonic. This is where the musical phrase most often begins and ends. He is the most stable. The third and fifth steps help him - they are also stable. All three together - the tonic triad, the support of music, its "home" with the mistress-tonic at the head. The rest of the steps are unstable. Two of them - fluctuate just to an extreme extent. This is the second and seventh. They surround the tonic and with all their might reach for it along with the melody, resolving (that is, dissolving and calming down) only in it.

Major scale structure

Major is a mode, translated from Latin "big" or "greater". The scale is built like this: two tones plus a semitone, then three tones plus a semitone. Check by playing the C major scale - it matches exactly. But if you try to play the same scale on the white keys from the note "re" to "re"? Get "D-major"? Not? And if you count by tones, you get only the sounds of the note "fa", and "do" will have to be increased bysemitone. "D-major" is played with two sharps. In the same way, you can build major scales from any note. Shall we practice? For example, scale "A-major". Between the notes "la" and "si" - certainly a tone, but between "si" and "do" - a semitone (but we need a tone, so we raise it, it turns out "to-sharp"), then from "do- sharp" to the note "re" - a semitone, and rightly so, between the notes "re" and "mi" - the tone we need, but from the note "mi" to the note "fa" - again a semitone. Again, we need a tone, which means it will be "F-sharp", and again between the notes "F-sharp" and "sol" - we got a semitone, not a tone, which means we'll play "sol-sharp", and finally we need a semitone between "sol-sharp" and "la" - it is, a semitone, and this is already correct. This means that "A-major" is a key with three signs at the key: the first sign is always "F-sharp", the second - "C-sharp" and the third - "G-sharp". At the heart of any individual melody and a whole musical composition there is always one or another mode that organizes the pitch of sounds, giving the music harmony, that is, harmony and purity of sound.