LESSON 4
MODAL MIXTURE
Ø Modal Mixture: defined as a ‘borrowed chord’; these chords add color and variety to the harmony and come from the parallel keys.
This diagram uses the C major scale and the C minor scale to identify the borrowed chord notes highlighted in the C minor scale for the C major scale.
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Ø Usually, these chords are borrowed from the parallel minor keys and used in Major keys. The chords often used are the flat third, sixth, and seventh degrees, and the most commonly used is the flatten sixth degree.
This diagram exhibit notes of the melody and harmony in the C minor scale used as borrowed chords for C major.
Ø Using the flattened sixth as a borrowed chord in Major keys affects a few other chords. Such as those of the 2nd, 4th, and 7th degree.
This diagram exhibit notes of the melody and harmony in the C minor scale used as borrowed chords for C major in Roman numeral.
https://viva.pressbooks.pub/openmusictheory/chapter/modal-mixture/
Ø The 2nd, 4th, and 7th-degree chords in Major keys because of the lower 6th degree, the IV chord becomes a minor iv chord, the minor ii7 chord becomes the iiø7 chord, and the viiø7 chord becomes the viio7 chord.
Ø To avoid the flat 6 degrees from being augmented, the third degree of the chord must be lower by a semitone, making the chord a Major b6.
In the key of Db Major, the musical examples identify iiø4/3 as a borrowed chord. The chord was an ii7 chord.
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In this video, you will be able to view;
The
definition of the Modal Mixture,
will be comparing Modal Mixture to secondary
chords,
Describing where
Modal Mixture borrowed from initially,
Explaining
borrow chords from major to minor,
Using
listening and visual examples,
Explaining
the predominant function,
Borrowed chords
from minor to major,
Listening and
visual examples,
Describing the
most frequently borrowed chords.
In this video,
you will be able to view;
The use of Modal
Mixture and progression,
A
demonstration of the major and minor modes on the keyboard,
Identifying
chords available from the C major scale,
Identifying chords
in C minor scale,
An example of
Modal Mixture used in a melody,
An example of
the same melody performed without Modal Mixture.
This melody of "We've Come This Far by Faith," written in G major, highlighted the bVI7 borrowed chord from the G minor key.
In this video,
I am performing the melody above, "We've Come This Far by Faith" the piece has
a bVI7 as a borrowed chord.
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