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Question and Answering Phrases basics


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Question and Answering Phrases

 

 

How do i compose Question and Answering Phrases?

 

What are the Basics of doing Question and Answering Phrases?

 

I think the questioning Phrases doesn't end on the tonic but the dominant or another scale degree to make it unfinished to create tension

 

The Answering Phrase ends on the tonic to resolve

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I seen some Answers phrase Melodically sequenced

 

what other tricks does composers used for Question and Answering ?

 

i Think Mozart and Haydn are the first ones to do question and answering phrasing?

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Originally posted by Walters9515

I seen some Answers phrase Melodically sequenced


what other tricks does composers used for Question and Answering ?


i Think Mozart and Haydn are the first ones to do question and answering phrasing?

 

 

It goes back long before them!

 

Antecedents/consequents take many shapes. The basic idea is that the antecedent should be 'unfinished', and the consequent should finish it. Often it's simply a matter of I-V, V-I (ant., con.), other times it's more elaborate. There are no 'tricks'...and it's something I think composers just do naturally, just like we do when speaking.

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I thought Antecedents/consequents is way different than question and answering phrasing or are they the same thing?

 

Because in Baroque they didn't really do question and answering but more Antecedents/consequents phrasing

 

in Classical era Mozart and Haydn did the question and answering dividing sections more

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The difference is making a Question Melody how do i do this?

"end on a Tension note"

a phrase that is unfinished and unresolved

 

making a Answer Melody how do i do this?

"end on the tonic note"

a phrase that is finished and resolved

 

4 phrase:

First 2 phrases are "Antecedent" phrases can either be

parallel Antecedent or Contrasting Antecedent making

a Period and cadencing with a half cadence I-V

 

Secord 2 phrases are "Consequent" phrases can either be

parallel Consequent or Contrasting Consequent making a

Period and cadencing with a (PA) V-I

 

Either a Parallel Period or a Contrasting Period

 

Whats the Difference between a Antecedent phrase and a Consequent phrase? its the cadences are different thats all i see?

 

The Contrasting Period has 2 theme's melodys that are different where the Parallel Period has just 1 theme and it repeated.

 

If you have a 4 line phrase with 2 Contrasting Periods thats equals 4 themes that are all different?

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