Synopses & Reviews
Designed for undergraduate music majors, Harmony in Context provides the richest possible musical context for the study of harmony, constantly encouraging students to translate what they are learning into better performances and better listening. The musical examples and anthology encompass a wide variety of different composers and repertoires. Students will particularly appreciate the clarity of the presentation and the attractiveness of the texts layout, both of which enable a smooth progression through the material.
Synopsis
Designed for undergraduate music majors, Harmony in Context successfully teaches a wide range of tonal mechanics, all richly contextualized by discussions of large-scale formal functions, by illustrations representing a great diversity of genres and repertoires, and by close attention to historical style periods.
Table of Contents
THE FUNDAMENTALS OF MUSIC -- Pitch: Notation and Intervals -- Rhythm and Meter -- Tonality: Scales, Keys, and Transposition -- Introduction to Species Counterpoint -- The Rudiments of Harmony I: Triads and Seventh Chords -- The Rudiments of Harmony II: Labeling Chords -- Musical Style -- DIATONIC HARMONY -- The Connection of Chords -- The Tonic and Dominant Triads in Root Position -- Harmonic Function; the Subdominant Triad in Root Position -- Texture; Triads in First Inversion -- Cadences -- Melodic Organization I: Phrase Structure -- Melodic Organization II: Thematic Development; Phrase Extension; Formal Functions -- Nonchord Tones -- 6/4 Chords -- The Supertonic; Metric Reduction -- Harmonic Rhythm. Hypermeter -- The Dominant Seventh and Its Inversions -- The Leading-Tone Triad -- The Mediant, Submediant, and Subtonic Triads; Diatonic Sequences -- Other Diatonic Seventh Chords -- Application: Diatonic Harmony in Context; Diatonic Functions and Performance -- CHROMATIC HARMONY AND FORM -- Secondary Dominants I -- Secondary Dominants II -- Secondary Leading-Tone Chords -- Modulation to Closely-Related Keys -- Small Forms: Binary and Ternary -- Contrapuntal Genres -- Modal Mixture. Variation Forms -- The Neapolitan and Augmented Sixth Chords -- Chromatic Modulatory Techniques; Modulation to Distantly Related Keys -- Introduction to Large Forms -- Expanding Functional Tonality: Extended Tertian Chords; Linear Chromaticism II -- The German Romantic Lied: Chromatic Harmony in Context -- 29 Toward (And Beyond) the Limits of Functional Tonality -- Non-Functional Pitch Centricity.