1. Ground Bass Composition
Year 10 Music

2. Lesson Objectives
To understand chords and triads and to be able to construct chords in C major
To understand what a perfect cadence is
To understand the term Ground Bass
To begin to write a ground bass as the basis for a composition

3. Theory Grade 5 Theory Class
Compulsory if you haven’t got Grade 5 Theory already
Monday lunchtimes

4. Chords

5. Cadences Two chords Musical resting point, like punctuation
Perfect cadence sounds like the end
V-I

6. Sonnerie de Sainte-Geneviève du mont de Paris
This is a piece of Baroque music written in 1723.
It is an example of a ground bass. This means that the bass part repeats a simple pattern throughout.
Another example of this type of piece is Pachelbel’s Kanon in D.

7. Ground Bass

8. Writing a Ground Bass