The ToolKIT, which is accessible from all pages of the site, outlines the three main analytical skills that TonalityGUIDE.com aims to develop. It also links to a short introduction to the study of tonality as well as a reminder of some basics (note and interval labels, clefs and transpositions).
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Style Awareness
Melodic Dissonance in Handel, Haydn and the Beatles
Haydn String Quartet Extracts
Prominent accented unprepared dissonances (appoggiaturas) are one of the hallmarks of Classical writing. The underlying guidelines for dissonance treatment are the same as in the baroque but here they become an even more important feature of the style. Some people characterise the Baroque style as decorative and the Classical as dramatic and this certainly makes some sense with regard to the treatment of dissonance.
This appoggiatura is not prepared but resolves downwards and by step. Although you might find similar dissonances in a piece from the baroque era, the rhythmic emphasis given to this seventh would be quite unusual.
The first of these two dissonances is a double appoggiatura (in the violin and viola parts).
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