Harmony in Context

Book Summary

Includes a 2-CD sets with recordings of more than 200 audio examples from the music literature reproduced in the chapters of "Harmony in Context".
Performed by students and faculty at the College-Conservatory of Music (CCM), University of Cincinnati and by artists from the Naxos label.

CONTENIDO:

-Preface
-A message to the student: why do we study music theory?

Introduction: The fundamentals of music
A. Pitch: notation and intervals
B. Rhythm and meter
C. Tonality: scales, keys
D. Introduction to species
E. The rudiments of harmony I: triads and sevenths chords
F. The rudiments of harmony II: labeling chords
G. Musical style

Part 1: Diatonic Harmony
1. The connection of chords
2. The tonic and dominant triads in root position
3. Harmonic function: the subdominant triad in root position
4. Texture; triads in first
5. Cadences
6. Melodic organization I: phrase structure
7. Melodic organization II: thematic development; phrase extension; formal functions
8. Nonchord tones
9. 6/4 Chords
10. The supertonic; metric reduction
11. Harmonic rhythm; hypermeter
12. The dominant seventh and its inversions
13. The leading-tone triad
14. The mediant, submediant, and subtonic triads; diatonic sequences
15. Other diatonic seventh chords
Appendix to part 1

Part 2: Chromatic harmony and form
16. Secondary dominants I
17. Secondary dominants II
18. Secondary leading-tone chords
19. Modulation to closely related keys
20. Small forms: binary and ternary
21. Contrapuntal genres
22. Modal mixture; variation forms
23. The neapolitan and augmented sixth chords
24. Chromatic modulatory techniques: modulation to distantly related keys I
25. Modulation to distantly related keys I; linear chromaticism I
26. Introduction to large forms
27. Expanding functional tonality: extended tertian chords; linear chromaticism II
28. The German Romantic "lied": chromatic harmony in context
29. Towars (and beyond) the limits of functional tonality
30. Nonfunctional pitch

Subject index
Musical example index

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