Principles of Harmony

Description

This is a textbook to develop the musicianship of a music performer, the basic course required of every college music major, but successfully learned by advanced musicians from high school age and older. The complete chordal vocabulary is learned, along with melodic and original compositions, in the style of hymns.

Contents

1. The Keyboard and Musical Alphabet; Scales
2. Intervals
3. Triads
4. Triads in Root Position Arranged for Four Voices
5. Progression of Principal Triads
6. Secondary Triads
7. Triads in First Inversion
8. Triads in Second Inversion
9. Cadences
10. Harmonization of Melodies
11. Passing and Auxiliary Tones
12. Modulation by Pivot Chord
13. Harmonies of the Melodic Minor Scale
14. Suspension, Ornamental Resolution, Appoggiatura
15. Interchangeable Harmonies
16. The Dominant Seventh Chord
17. Modulation with the Dominant Seventh
18. Seventh Chords on the Leading Tone
19. Secondary Seventh Chords
20. Borrowed Dominant Forms
21. Modulation with Chords on the Leading Tone
22. The Nondominant Diminished Seventh Chord
23. Changing Tones, Anticipation, and Pedal Point
24. Ninth Chords
25. Eleventh Chords
26. Thirteenth Chords
27. The Sequence
28. Chromatic Chords; The Neapolitan Sixth Chord
29. Augmented Sixth Chords
30. C Clefs and Open Score
31. Other Chromatic Alterations
32. Other Methods of Modulation
33. Modes
34. Parallelism
35. Polychords and Polytonality
36. Expanded Metric and Rhythmic Resources
37. Other Scale Systems and Chord Formations
38. Synthetic Scales
39. Nontertial Harmonies
40. The Chromatic Scale
41. Summary

Appendix 1: Other Irregular Features and Exceptional Progressions
Appendix II: Masterworks for Analysis and Observation