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This AP Music Theory study guide covers tonality (including its historical development), harmonic progressions (including tonic, dominant, and predominant functions, basic progressions, and tendency tones), and cadences (including types, classifications, and the Picardy third). It emphasizes understanding harmonic functions and cadences for the exam, provides practice questions on these topics, and offers a cadence cheat sheet as a memory aid.
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Question 1 of 12
What is the central pitch around which tonal music is organized? 🏡
Dominant
Predominant
Subdominant
Tonic