| Re: Basic Questions on Music Theory
Theory I is usually the class first used to separate the wheat from the chaff amongst music students. In naming chords, things are stacked up in thirds, based on the scale of the home tone. If the music says "C" the chord is C major: "C E G." C minor uses the notes of a minor scale "C Eb G". The Roman numeral stuff makes everything transposable. "I" equals the (major) tonic, "ii" equals a chord built on the second degree of the scale, so if I = C, then ii = d minor, (II = D major).
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