Tonicization

This lesson is part of the Harmony category.

Objectives

• Students will be able to identify and analyze different types of tonicization in a musical composition.
• Students will be able to create a chord progression which includes a tonicization.

Class Activities

• Discussion and definition of the concept of tonicization
• Discussion of different types of tonicization using dominant and leading-tone chords
• Harmonic analysis of tonicizations in different types of music
• Composition and improvisation of a tonicization of a given chord in a key

Assignments

• Analysis of tonicization in written and recorded music
• Inflection of a given diatonic musical excerpt to add tonicization
• Composition of a chord progression which uses tonicization
• Spelling Tonicizing Chords in Basic Form (Finale | MusicXML | PDF)