Music A-Level

Harmonic identification

What Harmonic identification means in Music A-Level, as defined for AQA.

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Naming chords and harmonic progressions from a printed score, accounting for the key signature and accidentals.

AQA · Area of study 1: Western classical tradition 1650–1910 (compulsory) - Reading staff notation

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Area of study 1: Western classical tradition 1650–1910 (compulsory) - Reading staff notation (AQA A-Level)

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