Level (music)

[1] This characteristic is common in the English virginalists music such as William Byrd's "The Woods so Wild" theme, which is an example of levels (F and G) being elaborated through cadence, melodic divergence from the accompaniment, and subsidiary chords, reaching a complete cadential phrase.

[4] Tonal variety and melodic unification is often achieved by repeating similar phrases on different steps of a pentatonic mode.

[8] Tonality levels or "root progression" are the most important structural feature found in African folk music.

[1] Eventually, levels and other musical traits found their way into American jazz harmony and blues tonality through spirituals.

[10] Levels can be compared to a traditional root progression in western music with a tonic – subdominant – dominant relationship.

[11] In the twentieth century, chords give way to levels in the blues, completed with the V-IV-I progression, which spread to all popular music.

[12] For instance, In the blues – influenced style, the boogie-woogie bass, levels occur in shifts from primary triads rather than neighboring tones.