Lessons

Contents:

• Motives
  • “Ceora” by Lee Morgan
  • Introduction
  • Characteristics of a Motive
  • Types of Motives
  • “Figures”
  • Motivic Repetition
  • Strict Repetition
  • Modified Repetition
  • Exercise
  • Assignment
• Motives and Melody
  • Developmental Repetition
  • Single Interval Motives
  • Melodic Writing and Analysis
  • Melodic Reductive Analysis
• Phrases and Cadences (Notes from Caplin, 1998)
  • Sentences
  • Periods