Harmony / Walter Piston ; revised and expanded by Mark DeVoto.
| Author/creator | Piston, Walter |
| Other author | DeVoto, Mark. |
| Other author | Jannery, Arthur. |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | 4th ed. |
| Publication Info | New York : W. W. Norton, ©1978. |
| Description | xix, 594 pages : music ; 24 cm + 1 workbook (250 pages : music ; 24 cm) |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Scales and intervals -- Triads -- Harmonic progression in the major mode : rules of voice leading -- The minor mode -- Tonality and modality -- The first inversion -- the figured bass -- Function and structure of melody -- Nonharmonic tones -- The harmonic structure of the phrase -- Harmonization of a given part -- The six-four chord -- Cadences -- Harmonic rhythm -- Modulation -- The dominant seventh chord -- Secondary dominants -- Irregular resolutions -- Problems in harmonic analysis -- The sequence -- The diminished seventh chord -- The incomplete major ninth -- The complete dominant ninth -- Nondominant harmony -- seventh chords -- Ninth, eleventh, and thirteenth chords -- Chromatically altered chords : the raised supertonic and submediant -- The Neapolitan sixth -- Augmented sixth chords -- Other chromatic chords -- Harmonic practice historically considered -- Extensions of common practice -- Scalar and chordal types -- Extended chromaticism. |
| Contents | Workbook contents: Our long march -- To America -- Poor little Chinese refugee -- My movie star dad -- Me and Mrs. Roosevelt -- My short Harvard education -- Going home -- The East is red -- Back in the bosom -- The atomic death-belt plan -- Welcome to Kansas -- Two years of perfidy and fleas -- Foreign devils face off -- The premier and I cheat death -- The other China -- Calm between the storms -- Contradictions at the top -- Beating a drowning dog -- The man on Mao's right -- Death and birth -- The Dark Ages begin -- Our Lord of the flied -- Nothing public without purpose -- The two young ladies -- A circle closes, another opens -- An empty seat on the stage -- China's second liberation -- The Reagan crisis -- From cannibals to caviar. |
| Abstract | Piston's Harmony teaches by demonstrating snapshots of particular harmonic practices from more or less standard classical pieces. These illustrations are then combined with variations on figured bass or melody harmonization exercises. |
| General note | Includes indexes. |
| General note | Accompanying workbook by Arthur Jannery. |
| LCCN | 78002267 |
| ISBN | 0393090345 |