The Practice of Harmony

by Spencer, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780130223500
• ISBN10: 0130223506
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Spiral Bound
• Copyright: 2000-01-01
• Publisher: Prentice Hall

Summary

For freshman/sophomore courses in Basic Music Theory, Lower Division Theory and Theory I-IV. With an emphasis on learning and understanding by doing, this text/workbook takes students from music fundamentals through harmony in common practice to some of the more important harmonic procedures of the 20th century. The approach is additive throughout, allowing students to use what was learned in one chapter to help comprehension of the materials in the next. This allows for minimum of memorization since students repeatedly use the concepts throughout the semester.

Table of Contents

Preface	vi
PART ONE FOUNDATIONS	1	(102)
Clefs and Basic Pitch Notation	1	(14)
Scales	15	(16)
The Major Scale	16	(1)
The Minor Scale	16	(1)
Naming Scales	17	(1)
Scales in Descent	17	(1)
The Synthetic Minor Scale	17	(1)
Modes	18	(13)
Key Signatures and Scale Degrees	31	(20)
Intervals	51	(16)
The Quality Of Intervals	52	(2)
The Inversion Of Intervals	54	(1)
Compound Intervals	55	(12)
Triads	67	(12)
Types Of Triads	67	(1)
Triads In Major And Minor Keys	68	(11)
The Notation of Rhythm	79	(24)
Note Values	79	(1)
Meter Signatures	80	(1)
Principles Of Notation	81	(22)
Flags and Beams	81	(2)
Dots and Ties	83	(1)
Borrowed Divisions	84	(1)
Augmentation and Diminution	85	(1)
Rests	85	(18)
PART TWO HARMONY IN COMMON PRACTICE The Diatonic Vocabulary	103	(112)
Four-Part Vocal Writing	103	(4)
Primary Triads in Root Position	107	(12)
Cadences	107	(1)
Roots A Fourth And Fifth Apart	108	(1)
Roots A Second Apart	109	(1)
Restrictions In Voice Leading	109	(2)
Primary Triads In Combination	111	(1)
The Function Of Primary Triads	112	(7)
Inversions of the Primary Triads	119	(20)
Chord Symbolization: Figured Bass	120	(1)
Primary Triads In First Inversion	121	(8)
Primary Triads In Second Inversion	129	(10)
The Cadential 64 Chord	129	(1)
The Passing 64 Chord	130	(1)
The Auxiliary 64 Chord	130	(9)
Secondary Triads	139	(10)
Chord Relationships	140	(2)
The Sixth And Seventh Scale Degrees In Minor Keys	142	(7)
The Harmonization of Melodies I	149	(8)
Nonchord Tones: Passing Tones, Neighboring Tones, Changing Tones, Appoggiaturas, Escape Tones, Anticipations	157	(14)
The Passing Tone	157	(1)
The Neighboring Tone	158	(2)
Changing Tones	160	(1)
The Appoggiatura	160	(1)
The Escape Tone	161	(1)
The Anticipation	161	(10)
Nonchord Tones: Suspensions	171	(6)
Diatonic Seventh Chords	177	(14)
Figured Bass Symbols For Seventh Chords	178	(1)
The Seventh Chord In Four-Part Writing	178	(1)
The Function Of Diatonic Seventh Chords	179	(12)
The Harmonization of Melodies II	191	(8)
Writing for the Piano	199	(16)
Four-Part Chordal Styles	199	(8)
The Piano Accompaniment	207	(8)
PART THREE HARMONY IN COMMON PRACTICE The Chromatic Vocabulary	215	(114)
Secondary Dominants	215	(16)
The Function Of Secondary Dominants	217	(10)
Deceptive Resolutions Of Secondary Dominants	227	(4)
Secondary Diminished Seventh Chords	231	(14)
The Function Of Secondary Diminished Seventh Chords	233	(8)
Irregular Resolutions Of Diminished Seventh Chords	241	(4)
Augmented Sixth Chords	245	(16)
The Function Of Augmented Sixth Chords	247	(10)
Other Uses Of Augmented Sixth Chords	257	(4)
Borrowed Chords	261	(8)
The Neapolitan	269	(12)
The Neapolitan Sixth Chord	269	(1)
The Function Of The Neapolitan Sixth	270	(1)
The Neapolitan In Root Position	271	(10)
Pedal Point	281	(12)
The Tonic Pedal	281	(1)
The Dominant Pedal	281	(12)
Modulation	293	(36)
Common Chord Modulation	294	(15)
Abrupt Modulation	309	(2)
Enharmonic Modulation	311	(18)
PART FOUR POST--COMMON PRACTICE HARMONY	329	(87)
Ninth, Eleventh, and Thirteenth Chords	329	(16)
Ninth Chords	330	(1)
Perfect Eleventh Chords	330	(1)
Augmented Eleventh Chords	331	(1)
Thirteenth Chords	332	(2)
Ninth, Eleventh, And Thirteenth Chords In Combination	334	(11)
Chord Symbols	345	(10)
Modal Harmony	355	(12)
Modes	355	(4)
The Pentatonic Scale	359	(8)
Nonfunctional Harmony	367	(12)
Root Movements Based On The Chromatic Scale	367	(1)
Parallelism	368	(1)
Chords Of Addition	369	(1)
Polychords	370	(1)
Bitonality	371	(1)
Pandiatonicism	372	(7)
Artificial Scales	379	(8)
The Whole Tone Scale	379	(1)
The Octatonic Scale	380	(7)
Nontertian Harmony	387	(12)
Nontertian Projections	387	(2)
Freely Formed Harmonic Structures	389	(10)
Harmonic Procedures in Twelve-Tone Serialism	399	(17)
Introduction	399	(3)
The Construction Of The Basic Set	402	(1)
The Harmonic Basis	403	(13)
Appendix	416	(4)
Musical Calligraphy	416	(1)
Instruments	417	(2)
Tempo And Expression Marks	419	(1)
Index	420