Lesson 13: Classical Cadence Games

[@threethrushes]

Your series is a hidden gem on KZbin. I could listen to your analysis of music all day long. Please never stop!

[@SethMonahan]

Thanks Gerhard! I'm so glad you like the videos. I wish I had more time to work on them, but (sadly) I seem only to be able to do a few every summer. I have SO many planned out in my head, but they take forever!

[@enzocypriani5055]

I could not agree more!

[@jacobshort7181]

not gonna lie I'm binging this series at like 4AM because I'm really interested and the whole falling-apart intro to this vid scared the absolute shit out of me. great material though!

[@josephalvarez5315]

Most underrated gem by far. Amazing videos

[@agustinfodrini]

Your course is a Masterpiece Seth. I couldn't thank you enough. Have a wonderful day.

[@SethMonahan]

Thanks, friend!

[@tomhamilton5707]

Thoroughly useful, enjoyable, and well put together. Your context on why it these techniques are employed has filled in a lot of valuable gaps for me that appear when self studying. Thanks again.

[@SethMonahan]

Thanks so much, Tom!

[@thieunientinlanh]

Thanks for the video. I’ve learnt a lot about music composition and concepts from your videos

[@EdwinK909]

I got a headphone amp and have been having audio issues. And I thought something was happened to my audio again haha...

[@therandombiker7168]

Love the series. Your tactic of beginning the video with a deceptive cadence of sorts was brilliant. Keep up the good work!

[@LouisSerieusement]

The whole vidéo serie is fascinating, plus you are such a good teacher, and I say that beeing a teacher myself ; your courses are incredibily well made ! Thank you again for sharing them ! :)

[@SethMonahan]

Many thanks for the kind words-I'm glad you like them!

[@partitayu]

❤ really learn so much from you. Thanks for the great content and detailed explanation! Really appreciate that! 😊❤

[@banoffibear]

Fascinating stuff! I've always struggled with enjoying classical era composers but this series is really opening up this style of music for me

[@deborahstephens863]

the beginning was too funny XD had me a bit scared!

[@SethMonahan]

I'm so glad you liked it-I laughed so much when I was editing that part that my wife and daughter threatened to kick me out and change the locks!

[@tomvanschoor2905]

Wow, Seth! This video series is superb! I have been schooled at Jazz theory myself and stumbled across this series while preparing for an article on my website on chord progressions using harmonic function. For sure this is giving me a great perspective from the classical point of view. You have a very structured and well thought out manner of teaching, it is a pleasure to listen to your stuff. I don't want to spam your comments with links to my own site on musical theory and piano playing tips and tricks, but if you are interested then let me know and I will pass you the URL. I would be very interested to hear your thoughts on some of the articles there. Keep up this awesome work! Regards, Tom

[@SethMonahan]

Hey, thanks Tom-I'm glad you like the series! By all means, send me the URL for your site. I'd love to have a look. And I regularly get questions from aspiring jazz players here, so I'd hope that some of my viewers might visit as well.

[@tomvanschoor2905]

@@SethMonahan Awesome! Thanks a lot! :) Here's my site pianowalk.com Regards, Tom

[@nomacaiu]

this is incredible. thank you so much! these videos are very illustrative and show a lot of examples

[@ShombitKumarPodder]

Hey Mr. Monahan. I had a request. Recently I had been studying examples of modulations, There are many videos on KZbin regarding How to modulate and what kinds of modulations are they. But my search is specifically on Mozart's modulations found in his Piano sonatas. They are lengthy, confusing yet seems natural. I wanted a detailed analysis on such examples of modulations. It need not be only Mozart, it could be anyone from that time. I have noticed particularly that he made sure never to end the exposition till the repetition in the original key. And in between there is always some puzzle, hinting a change in key, but the exact point is somehow lost to my eyes. Could you make a video on modulations please? You teach them really good.

[@praddeeshm]

Epic series ❤🎉

[@LucaBovelli]

I really love your content, keep up the good work man! One question though: Could you evade from a cadence by adding even more dissonance, like from a G7 to Gdim7 and then F9 and modulate to Bband delaying the resolution by two bars like that? (Thats just an example, im sure there are wayy cleverer ways to increase the tension/dissonance but you get the point)

[@SethMonahan]

Great question! In fact, as time goes on, composers find more and more ways of evading cadences, many of them with hugely dissonant chords substituted for tonic. Diminished sevenths are pretty common, though they often resolve to a chord in the home key. (For instance: a G7 might resolve to an Edim7, which then resolves to F, the IV chord.) By the time you get to mature Wagner, in the 1860s, you'll often have enormous spans of music-10, 20 minutes or more-where ALL of the cadences are evaded, in creative and ear-grabbing ways that send the music in some new or unexpected direction.

[@JacobGran]

Excellent stuff!

[@SethMonahan]

Thanks, Jacob!

[@amirhosseinmohsenian5241]

I am really delighted that I find a genuine teacher. Thanks, 1) At 2:17, the last bar is termed the PAC part, while G, B, and top G can be built into a tonic triad chord. But PAC is made of two consequent chords, a Dominant plus a Tonic chord, is not it? where is the dominant chord before this Tonic (G, B, and top G) chord?

[@SethMonahan]

Hi Amirhossein! The dominant of G major is spelled, complete, on the final eighth note of the previous bar: D and C in the left hand, A and F# in the right hand.

[@amirhosseinmohsenian5241]

@@SethMonahan I got it, Sir. Thank you,

[@LucBoeren]

I love this so much

[@hrmnnmusic9310]

How come your videos don't have many views, these videos are gems.

[@SethMonahan]

It would sure be nice to get more views, but I don't think many KZbinrs are interested in classical music-at least not on the level I'm teaching it here. KZbin music theory is mostly basic chord and scale theory for self-taught amateurs, which is totally fine. (I was one such amateur, long before the internet.) Plus, I'm allergic to silly clickbait titles and not very photogenic, so I'll never compete with the big boys with 100Ks of views! That said, I'm glad you like the videos. There should be another one coming out in a day or two. :)

[@hrmnnmusic9310]

@@SethMonahan I appreciate the time and effort you put into making these videos. Thank you.

[@curtpiazza1688]

👍 Thanx!!

[@soxxy8588]

I was looking forward to writing some music today... Alas, I haven't moved! Hahaha ;)

[@SethMonahan]

Wow, Soxxy-you're on a heck of a roll today. Glad you like the videos! :)

[@soxxy8588]

@@SethMonahan Yes, certainly helping make sense of what I have been trying to understand. Must of done like 5 hours haha Thanks again Seth! Cracking stuff ;)

[@nikolaopacic5207]

Cadences aren't the only thing Beethoven evaded

[@karifrancis7080]

Hmm... both of Beethoven's Op. 34 and 24 center on F major, but the "Spring" violin sonata is Op. 24 (not 34, which is the 6 Variations), correct? (Regardless, wonderful video!)

[@caterscarrots3407]

Yeah, I just searched op. 34 Beethoven on google and up came 6 Variations on an Original Theme in F Major.