Harmony and voice leading / Edward Aldwell, Carl Schachter.
| Author/creator | Aldwell, Edward |
| Other author | Schachter, Carl, author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, ©1978-1979. |
| Description | 2 volumes : music ; 25 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | v. 1. Part I. The primary materials and procedures. Keys, scales, and modes. Tonal relationships, major keys ; Minor keys, modes, tonality -- Recognizing and constructing intervals ; The overtone series ; Consonance and dissonance ; Intervals in a key -- Rhythm and meter. Rhythmic organization ; Rhythm and dissonance treatment -- Triads and seventh chords. Triads ; Seventh chords ; Texture and structure -- Part II. I-V-I and its elaborations. Procedures of four-part writing. Chord construction ; Voice leading -- I, V, and V⁷. Tonic and dominant ; The dominant seventh -- I⁶, V⁶, and VII⁶. I⁶ and V⁶ ; VII⁶ (leading-tone triad) -- Inversions of V⁷. V6/5, V4/3, and V4/2 ; Contrapuntal expansions of tonic and dominant -- Leading to V: IV, II, and II⁶. Intermediate harmonies ; IV and II in contrapuntal progressions ; Some new writing techniques -- The cadential 6/4. An intensification of V -- VI and IV⁶. Use of VI ; Use of IV⁶ -- Supertonic and subdominant seventh chords. Supertonic seventh chords ; Subdominant seventh chords -- Other uses of IV, IV⁶, and VI. IV and IV⁶ ; VI -- V as a key area. Tonicization and modulation ; Applications to written work -- III and VII. Use of III ; Use of VII -- Part III. 5/3, 6/3, and 6/4 techniques. 5/3-chord techniques. Progressions by 5ths and 3rds ; Contrapuntal chord functions -- Diatonic sequences. Compositional functions ; Sequences with descending 5ths ; Sequences with ascending 5ths ; Sequences using the ascending 5-6 technique ; Sequences falling in 3rds (descending 5-6) ; Less frequent sequential patterns ; Sequences in minor -- 6/3-chord techniques. 6/3 chords in parallel motion ; Other uses of 6/3 chords -- 6/4-chord techniques. Dissonant 6/4 chords ; Special treatment of cadential 6/4 chords ; Consonant 6/4 chords ; Some exceptional cases -- |
| Contents | v. 2. Part IV. Elements of figuration. Melodic figurations. Chordal skips (arpeggios) ; Passing and neighbor tones -- Rhythmic figurations. Suspensions ; Anticipations ; The pedal point -- Part V. Advanced tonal procedures. Mixture. Combining modes ; The cross relation -- Leading-tone seventh chords. The diminished seventh chord ; The half-diminished seventh chord -- Remaining uses of seventh chords. Seventh chords in sequence ; Transferred and delayed resolutions ; Apparent seventh chords -- Applied V and VII. Applied chords ; Chords applied to V ; Other applied chords ; Applied chords in sequence -- Diatonic modulation. Modulatory technique ; Modulation, large-scale motion, and form -- Seventh chords with added dissonance. Ninths ; "Elevenths" and "thirteenths" -- Part VI. Chromaticism. The Phrygian II (Neapolitan). A chord leading to V ; Other uses of (flat)II ; Chromatic notation -- Augmented sixth chords. A chromatic preparation for V ; Approaching augmented sixth chords ; "Inversions" of augmented sixth chords ; Motions to goals other than V ; German sixth and dominant seventh -- Other chromatic chords. Advanced uses of mixture ; Augmented triads ; Altered dominant seventh chords ; Common-tone diminished seventh chords ; Other chromatic embellishing chords -- Chromatic voice-leading techniques. Chromaticism based on parallel motion ; Chromaticism based on contrary motion ; Equal subdivisions of the octave -- Chromaticism in larger contexts. New modulatory techniques ; Chromatic tonal areas -- Appendix. Keyboard exercises. |
| Abstract | This book is a textbook in two volumes dealing with tonal organization in the music of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. |
| Local note | Little-343620--3051310499754--v.1 |
| General note | Most chapters end with sections called "points for review" and/or "exercises." |
| General note | Includes indexes. |
| LCCN | 78317025 |
| ISBN | 0155315153 (v. 1) |
| ISBN | 9780155315150 (v. 1) |
| ISBN | 015531517X (v. 2) |
| ISBN | 9780155315174 (v. 2) |
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