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How to write an harmonic for piano using treble clef?

Q. please answer i have no ides what to do.
just write a harmonic using notes using treble and bass clef for piano

A. That is such a broad question is there anyway you can be more specific much better I think you're looking for a four part harmony probably for a choral setting
You need to set it up in SATB range and depending on what time period you are writing for will be the basis for what notes you will use
I will give you an example in 18th century style the range is set as a soprano can sing from a c4 up to a5 and an alto from a g3 up to a g4 and a tenor from a g4 to a c3 and a bass from a d2 up to a c4
Then you consider spacing make them equal intervals
Then you double the root of the chord and apply

Original Question

Harmony in an orchestra?
Q. I know in rock, blues, and pop, chords are often played by one player (guitar, piano, keyboard, etc) In jazz depending on the stylistic features the piano can play chords, guitar but something I have yet to read about is chords formed by single intervals played by diff. instruments, e.g. guitar playing the root, piano the 3rd and 5th, trumpet the 7th and so forth. Lastly it seems to me that in classical music obviously the harmony is there, but how can it be identified since it's not as obvious as in rock, pop, etc where one instrument will mainly play chordally. Is harmony in an orchestra achieved mostly by single intervals of chords played in diff. instruments? I'm not familiar with classical music so pardon the ignorance.

A. The only music without harmony is monophonic, although I suppose you could include music which only uses untuned percussion as well.

Imagine you've got two kids singing the round 'London's burning'. The harmony is a bit clunky, it's got a lot of open fifths and octaves in it (for instance when the second singer starts) but it IS harmony. Harmony is simply two pitches sounding simultaneously. As long as you've got two notes at once it's harmony, it doesn't even have to be harmonious!

While it may at first appear that only one player is responsible for the harmony in rock for instance - the guitarist - this is not the case. The bassist plays a very important part in structuring the harmony. Baroque orchestras often had a harpsichordist playing continuo - essentially supporting the rest of the orchestra. The only thing that would be notated would be a rough harmonic outline and the bass part, even perfectionists like Bach would essentially let the harpsichordist do what they wanted as long as they got the bass part in!

A poor bassist will often just play 'root notes' - i.e if the chord sequence is C | C| F | G | they will play just those notes. A better one might play C | E | F A | G B |. This has changed the harmony and has made the piece substantially more interesting (by using something called voice leading - you're approaching your next note - giving your audience a clue as to what's coming next). It might appear as if the guitarist is completely in control of the harmony, but the bassist has a substantial role to play too.

Let's take a look at figaro http://petrucci.mus.auth.gr/imglnks/usimg/d/d2/IMSLP25308-PMLP03845-Mozart_Figaro_K.492_Act_1_I--IV.pdf You can see on the first page that the double bass is playing a G the viola a G (it's in alto clef!) and the 'fagotti' (bassoon) is playing a G as well. This gives us a G5 chord. Add to this the violin 2 part who plays GBDB every beat. This is a broken chord of G major. The different parts are adding up to give us a chord of G.

You can look at what notes each part is playing and then add them up to see what the chord (and therefore the harmony) is. It's as if each instrument is playing one string on a guitar, or one note on a piano. The beauty comes from the fact that an orchestra has more flexibility than a guitarist or even a pianist when it comes to playing parts - for instance on the second system there's a whole load of stuff going on. However if you ignore all the interesting stuff and just take what's going on in every beat you can still work out the basic harmonic structure.

Original Question

Can anyone help me figure out what song this is?
Q. The most I can tell you of its origin is that I most recently heard it in a Korean drama called Soul/Possession...
It plays in the sad/emotional parts.
Although I took the liberty of trying to figure out how to play it on the piano, and found a simple single note progression that matches the part of the song I remember.
it goes like this:
F A E A, D G D C#, D F D F, D F F E, and then plays again...thats all I can remember and there may or may not be other extra chords...anyways can anyone help me figure out what its called?

A. X:1
T:
R:reel
C:Jeff Lindqvist
H:March 9, -00
M:C|
L:1/8
K:D
F3E FDA,D|~B,2DB, A,B,DE|~F2FE FDA,D|B,DGD
CEAB|
AFDA FDA,D|FGAF GABG|AFdF eFdF|EFGE FDD2:|
|:FD~D2 FGAd|eA~A2 efgf|e=c~c2 efge|afge fdec|
dAFD A,DFA|~G2GF ~E2FG|AFdF eFdF|EFGE FDD2:|
"My chords:"
"D"F3E "D"FDA,D|"G"~B,2DB, "D"A,B,DE|"D"~F2FE
"D"FDA,D|"G"B,DGD "A"CEAB|
"D"AFDA "D"FDA,D|"D"FGAF "G"GABG|"D"AFdF
"D"eFdF|"A"EFGE "D"FDD2:|
|:"D"FD~D2 "D"FGAd|"A"eA~A2 "A"efgf|"C"e=c~c2
"C"efge|"Bm"afge "A"fdec|
"D"dAFD "D"A,DFA|"Gm6"~G2GF "Gm6"~E2FG|"D"AFdF
"D"eFdF|"A"EFGE "D"FDD2:|

X:2
T:
R:reel
C:Jeff Lindqvist
H:March 9, -00
N:Fifth bar in second part also played: FDC^A
BcdB.
M:C|
L:1/8
K:D
D2DE DB,A,B,|DEFD G2FE|DEDB, DEFA|~B2dB AGFE|
FAEA FDDB,|A,B,D=F ^FABA|dA~A2 dAFA|GEFD
~E2FE:|
|:DDFA ~d2cd|BGGF GABG|~E2^GB ee^de|cAA^G
ABcA|
Fdc^A BcdB|ABcA ~d2ce|dA~A2 dAFA|GEFD ~E2FE:|
"My chords:"
"D"D2DE "D"DB,A,B,|"D"DEFD "G"G2FE|"D"DEDB,
"Bm"DEFA|"G"~B2dB "A"AGFE|
"D"FAEA "D"FDDB,|"D"A,B,D=F "D"^FABA|"D"dA~A2
"D"dAFA|"G"GEFD "A"~E2FE:|
|:"D"DDFA "D"~d2cd|"G"BGGF "G"GABG|"E"~E2^GB
"E"ee^de|"A"cAA^G "A"ABcA|
"F#"Fdc^A "Bm"BcdB|"A"ABcA "D"~d2ce|"D"dA~A2
"D"dAFA|"G"GEFD "A"~E2FE:|

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