Vince Guaraldi Cast Your Fate to the Wind.Tchaikovsky Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy.Neil Young Only Love Can Break Your Heart.Beethoven Piano Concerto No 5 in C Minor.Chicago Does Anybody Really Know What Time it Is?.
Bach 18 O Christ Who Art the Light and Day.Bach 19 Lord Jesus Christ Thou Prince of Peace.Bach 20 Lord Jesus Christ My Life My Light.The beautiful thing about music, at least for me, is the fact that there are no rules. The following examples use the above mentioned technique and go through all 12 keys. The third stays the same and becomes the fifth of the new chord. If you want to move a chord down by a minor third, you raise the root a half step and raise the fifth by a whole step.
For example G B D, or G Major, becomes F B-flat D, or B Flat Major. Download the PDF Chord Charts for Raise A Hallelujah (Simplified) by Bethel Music / Melissa Helser / Jonathan David Helser, from the album Simplified Worship at PraiseCharts. The fifth doesn’t move and it becomes the third of the new chord. To move a chord up by three half-steps (a minor-third): Lower the root by one whole step, and lower the third by a half-step. The root moves up a minor third each time. For example, the first four chords are G, B-Flat, D-Flat, and E. The melody contains the notes of the chords, called arpeggios. This little musical experiment has all dominant chords, ascending and descending by minor thirds. That involves moving as few notes as possible. In music theory, we are taught to use “smooth voicing” when changing chords. I find it very comforting to listen to.Īnd now for something completely different. Whether or not he wrote all of the music is a question I guess only he can answer. Here are nine chorales, harmonized by Johann Sebastian Bach. Today, Pachelbel is best known for the Canon in D other well known works include the Chaconne in F minor, the Toccata in E minor for organ, and the Hexachordum Apollinis, a set of keyboard variations.Īnd the list of Bach Chorales is growing. Pachelbel’s music enjoyed enormous popularity during his lifetime he had many pupils and his music became a model for the composers of south and central Germany. He composed a large body of sacred and secular music, and his contributions to the development of the chorale prelude and fugue have earned him a place among the most important composers of the middle Baroque era. Johann Pachelbel (1653 – 1706) was a German composer, organist, and teacher who brought the south German organ schools to their peak.
You thought I was done with the music lessons, didn’t you? You were so wrong….