Musical Terms

[adrian]

Hello..Im playing this Baroque piece by JS bach called fugue in G (from the well temepered clavier book).  Anyway...during the entire piece it is in a minor key but at the very end, it finishes on a MAJOR key which sounds very contrasting.  I remember my music teacher telling me what this device in music is called and it is used in a lot of baroque music.  Except,...I've forgotten the word...do YOU? (BTW...the word sounds funny)

[xvimbi]

Picardy third.

[jazzyprof]

Here's a fun resource, a multimedia dictionary of musical terms where you can actually hear the correct pronunciations of "Picardy third",  "appoggiatura", "passacaglia", and "Bach".
http://www.music.vt.edu/musicdictionary/

[janice]

My Harmony teacher called it a 'tierce de Picardy", which is the same as the picardian third.  but you said that it sounds funny, so you are probably thinking of this pronounciation of it.