Harmony

• Harmony - what makes up the accompaniment
• chords - major, minor, 7ths, extended jazz chords, broken chords
• cadences - perfect, imperfect, plagal, interrupted
• ostinato/riff - repeating pattern
• drone/pedal note - long held note / repeated rhythm on the same note
• modulation - key change
• tonic - chord 1
• dominant - chord 5
• subdominant - chord 4
• primary chords - 1, 4, 5
• basso continuo - repeated bassline (baroque)
• diatonic - notes/chords from within the key/scale