Harmony / Walter Piston ; revised and expanded by Mark DeVoto.

Author/creator Piston, Walter
Other author DeVoto, Mark.
Other author Jannery, Arthur.
Format Book
Edition4th ed.
Publication InfoNew York : W. W. Norton, ©1978.
Descriptionxix, 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 noteIncludes indexes.
General noteAccompanying workbook by Arthur Jannery.
LCCN 78002267
ISBN0393090345