Getting outside the tonality while staying inside the melody [Keyboard technique, part II]

Canadian Musician | January 1, 2000| | Copyright

This issue CM continues Kevin's advice from last issue which included advice on achieving dissonance while maintaining subtlety. This issue, we pick up where he left off:

Leaps of an octave are also useful after the imposition of a dissonant note or passage to re-establish the tonality and/or foreshadow another trip outside the tonality. By exaggerating the familiar elements of a melody, tonal area or progression prior to introducing dissonance you provide a frame of reference from which you can deviate without shocking listeners. I like to depart from the melody by repeating the first note ...

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