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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : W. W. Norton, (c)1978.Edition: forth editionDescription: xix, 594 pages : music ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • MT50 .H376 1978
  • MT50
Available additional physical forms:
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Contents:
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.
Subject: 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.
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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.

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.

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