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This video explores various musical embellishments that enhance the expressiveness and depth of melodies. These embellishing tones, including passing tones, neighbor tones, appoggiaturas, suspensions, ret. tones, anticipations, escape tones, and pedal points, serve to enrich melodies by introducing variation, tension, and color.

Through examples such as Bach's Minuet in G and Beethoven's Op. 34, the video illustrates how passing tones smoothly connect chord tones, while neighbor tones alternate between chord and non-chord tones, adding ornamentation. Examples from Chopin and Beethoven demonstrate the emotional depth added by appoggiaturas, while suspensions in Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" create tension and anticipation. Mozart's Minuet in F showcases ret. tones, which intensify tension before resolution, and anticipations prepare for upcoming chord changes. Escape tones, exemplified in Beethoven's Pathetique Sonata, provide unique embellishments by diverting from expected harmonic progressions. Additionally, pedal points, as seen in Bach's "Musette in G Major," offer stability against changing harmonies.

Overall, these embellishing tones are crucial in enriching melodies, adding emotional resonance, and enhancing the listener's experience of musical beauty.

0:00 Intro0:10 What are Embellishing Tones?
1:37 Passing Tones
2:00 How Bach Uses Passing Tones in Minuet in G
2:47 How Beethoven Uses Passing Tones in Op. 34
3:28 Neighbor Tones
3:49 How Beethoven Uses Neighbor Tones in The Tempest Sonata
5:00 Neighbor Tones Used in a Trill
5:44 Appoggiaturas
6:28 How Chopin Uses Appoggiaturas in Nocturne in Eb
7:30 Suspensions
8:14 How Beethoven Uses Suspensions in Moonlight Sonata Mvt II
8:52 Ret. Tones
9:29 How Mozart Uses Ret Tones in K. 2
10:00 Anticipation Tones
10:22 How Bach Uses Anticipation Tones in Air on a G String
11:09 Pedal Points
11:43 How Bach Uses a Pedal Point in Musette in G
12 :09 Escape Tones
12:30 How Beethoven Uses an Escape Tone in “Pathetique” Sonata Mvt III
13:20 Conclusion
13:44 Outro

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