Harmony

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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 harmonisation exercises.

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Title Statements

Full title :Harmony / Walter Piston.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:©1987
Edition:Fifth edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):W.W. Norton & Company
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:ocm14692175
LC Classification:MT50
Dewey Decimal:781.25

[pt.] I. Tonal harmony in common practice -- 1. Materials of music : scales and intervals -- Intervals measured by scales -- Scale degrees -- Classification of intervals -- Compound intervals -- Inversion of intervals -- Enharmonic intervals -- 2. Triads -- Chord factors -- Triads on the scale degrees -- Kinds of triads -- Inversions -- Consonant and dissonant intervals -- Triads of the major mode -- Four-part writing -- Doubling -- The leading-tone triad -- Spacing -- Close and open position -- Notation -- 3. Harmonic progression in the major mode : principles of voice leading -- Table of usual root progressions -- Connection of chords : two rules of thumb -- Improving the exercise : beyond the rules of thumb -- Conjunct and disjunct melodic motion -- Rules of motion -- The direct octave and fifth -- Treatment of the leading tone -- Overlapping and crossing -- Similar motion of four voices -- Quick summary of motion rules -- Working on the exercises -- 4. The minor mode -- Scale differences -- Triads in the minor mode -- Harmonic progression -- Voice leading -- 5. Tonality and modality -- Modal scales -- Tonal functions of the scale degrees -- Dominant harmony -- Tonal strength o…