Suggested Learning Resources

1) YFIO

2) Video Lesson: YouTube UltimateMusicTheory.com Lesson http://youtu.be/cmGal-qSI3E 

3) Online Reading: WikiBooks http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Music_Theory/Finding_the_Key_and_Mode_of_a_Piece  

4) Interactive Lesson: 

Music Theory QuickThink: 

-          Use the key signature to identify a minor key as a potential key for the music example

-          Confirm the piece is in the minor key indicated by the key signature by identifying the tonic note of the piece.

• o   Observe the first and last note of the piece to see if it is the tonic of the key signature.
• o   Observe if the tonic of the key signature appears prevalently in the piece, at phrase endings, and is often preceded by the dominant or the leading tone of the minor key.
• o   Look for raised 6th and 7th scale degrees within the piece especially as they approach the tonic. (accidentals will be present)

Play, sing, or audiate the piece to confirm the tonic note of the piece is the same as is indicated by the minor key signature

Objective 2.8: Examples in Music: YouTube

http://youtu.be/vZXv9DAFXDU?t=6m20s

Objective 2.8: Identify the minor key of a melody, or simple piece of music, by using the key signature and other notation clues