Harmony in context / Miguel A. Roig-Francolí.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roig-Francolí, Miguel A., 1953- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Harmony--Textbooks.

Harmony.

Music theory--Textbooks.

Music theory.

Genre:

Textbooks.

Physical Description:

xvii, 776 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : McGraw-Hill, [2011]

Contents:

Introduction: The fundamentals of music. Pitch, notation and intervals ; Rhythm and meter ; Tonality: scales and keys ; The rudiments of harmony I: triads and seventh chords ; The rudiments of harmony II: labeling chords; Musical texture ; Introduction to species counterpoint

Diatonic harmony. The connection of chords ; The tonic and dominant triads in root position ; Harmonic function; The subdominant triad in root position ; Triads in first inversion ; The supertonic; Melody harmonization ; Nonchord tones ; 6/4 chords ; The dominant seventh ; The leading-tone triad ; Cadences ; Melodic organization I: phrase structure ; Melodic organization II: thematic development, phrase extension ; Harmonic rhythm; Metric reduction ; The mediant, submediant, and subtonic triads ; Other diatonic seventh chords ; Harmonic sequences

Chromatic harmony and form. Secondary dominants I ; Secondary dominants II ; Secondary leading-tone chords ; Modulation to closely related keys ; Small forms: Binary and ternary; Variation forms ; Contrapuntal genres ; Modal mixture ; The neapolitan chord ; Augmented sixth chords ; Chromatic modulatory techniques: modulation to distantly related keys I ; Modulation to distantly related keys II; Linear chromaticism I ; Introduction to large forms ; Expanding functional tonality; Extended tertian chords; Linear chromaticism II ; The German Romantic Lied: chromatic harmony in context ; Toward (and beyond) the limits of functional tonality.

Notes:

Includes indexes.

Local Notes:

From the personal collection of Penn composer James Primosch, presented to the Penn Libraries by his wife, Mary Murphy.

ISBN:

9780073137940

0073137944

OCLC:

436028158