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Chord Progression
What Are Secondary Dominants in Music, and How Do V/V and V/ii Work?
Secondary Dominants: How to Create Temporary Harmonic GravityIn tonal music, the dominant chord has a particularly strong relationship with the tonic. It creates tension and expectation, encouraging the music to resolve… read more
What Is Voice Leading in Music, and How Does It Make Chord Progressions Sound Smooth and Connected?
Voice Leading: How Individual Notes Create Harmonic MovementHarmony describes the relationship between chords. Voice leading describes how the individual notes within those chords move from… read more
What Is the Difference Between Perfect Authentic, Imperfect Authentic and Half Cadences?
Authentic Cadences and Half Cadences: Understanding Harmonic Closure and SuspensionOne of the most important distinctions in tonal harmony is the difference between a musical phrase that feels complete… read more
What is a musical cadence, and how do tonic, subdominant and dominant chords create a sense of harmonic movement?
Cadences and Chord Progressions for Electronic MusiciansA chord progression gives music a sense of direction. Some progressions feel as though they are moving away from a point… read more
How Can Quantizers Change Scale and Key Automatically?
Quantizer Modulation and Generative HarmonyMany musicians think of quantizers as simple pitch-correction devices.
In generative music they can become active harmonic processors.
Modern quantizers often allow scale and key… read more