Harmony

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"This fifth edition...marks the forty-fifth year of its successful use...The major departure of the fourth edition was the addition of seven new chapters, including four on the complicated subject of harmony after common practice...[enhanced] substance of the book intended to benefit the student in developing practical skills in musical analysis...new chapter on musical texture...to clear up many difficult points encountered by the beginning student in analysis of examples from the literature..…

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Title Statements

Full title :Harmony / Walter Piston.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:©1987.
Edition:5th ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Norton
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:©1987.

Notes

Includes indexes.

The Physical Object

Description:xvi, 575 pages : : music ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0393954803, 9780393954807
oclc:ocn867482852
LC Classification:MT50
Dewey Decimal:781. 3

I. Tonal harmony in common practice: materials of music, scales and intervals -- Triads -- Harmonic progression in the major mode, principles of voice leading -- The minor mode -- Tonality and modality -- The first inversion, the figured bass -- Function and structure of melody -- Nonharmonic tones -- Harmonization of a melody -- The six-four chord -- Cadences -- Harmonic rhythm -- Harmonic structure of the phrase -- Modulation -- Dominant seventh chord -- Secondary dominants -- Irregular resolutions -- Musical texture -- Problems in harmonic analysis -- The sequence -- The diminished seventh chord -- The incomplete major 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. II. After common practice: Harmonic practice historically considered -- Extensions of common practice -- Scalar and chordal types -- Extended chromaticism -- Appendix I: Acoustical basis of the scale, the harmonic series and equal temperament -- Appendix II: Special exercises based on Bach's chorale harmonizations -- Index of musica…