The "I Need Help With Homework" thread

[Animeniax]

I need help with this assignment. I don't want the answers, just general help with the concepts. Any help is appreciated. Please ignore the handwritten stuff as it's all wrong.

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[Buffalobiian]

The first tune is Jingle Bells. I'm not sure what renotate means.

edit: wait, I see now. Couldn't tell that some lines were hand written and some were printed.

I always treated cut-common time the same as two four time...

What sort of help? I can only think of playing these notes and trying to figure out the tune, or hum it in your head if you could.

As for renotation, it's about changing the value of the notes so that you get the same "pattern" in each bar. Eg, in Q3, the original piece contains six semiquavers per bar, while the renotated one should have six demi-semi-quavers. As the duration of each bar is halved, so should the duration of each corresponding note in the original piece.

Harmonisation... lol, I haven't done that for so long..

[Animeniax]

So for the harmonization part, do you just identify the note and then add a chord that contains that note?

[Buffalobiian]

So for the harmonization part, do you just identify the note and then add a chord that contains that note?

You can do that, yeah.

Edit: for the purposes of the homework, yes, do that. Below is the original post.

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Note: I have not touched this for way too long that the information, if pointed out to be incorrect, very likely is. I learned from a purely academic point of view and had no real talent in this whatsoever.


You can do that, yeah.
Normally what you try to do is to pick a chord that harmonises most with the music that will be playing for the duration of the chord.

(Eg. in Piece 1 Bar 3, if you were only asked for one chord that will last for the duration of the bar, you'd pick chord I as it contains G, B and D). But since you're allowed to change chords almost every time it clashes, I can't see why you can't use Chord I followed by Chord V the second time.

There's also chord progression and cadence rules that can apply.