Year 7

How do composers decide how to end a phrase?

Year 7

How do composers decide how to end a phrase?

Lesson details

Key learning points

  1. In this lesson, we will explore what makes a musical question and answer phrase, including balanced phrases and the use of the tonic and dominant. We will compose balanced question and answer phrases in 3/4 and also begin to notate our compositions using staff notation.

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5 Questions

Q1.
What degree of the scale is 'I' known as?
Dominant
Subdominant
Correct answer: Tonic
Q2.
What degree of the scale is 'V' known as?
Correct answer: Dominant
Subdominant
Tonic
Q3.
What degree of the scale do we end our question on?
Correct answer: Dominant
Subdominant
Tonic
Q4.
What degree of the scale do we end our answer on?
Dominant
Subdominant
Correct answer: Tonic
Q5.
Which of these is an example of a balanced phrase?
1 bar question, 5 bar answer
Correct answer: 2 bar question, 2 bar answer
2 bar question, 3 bar answer