Description
Book Synopsis From the classical violinist to the hip hop producer, creating music pays homage to principles of harmony. It is not just the sum of the musical parts that makes a song come alive, but how every part interacts with others to create more harmonies, enriched melodies, dynamic rhythms, and more interaction. Composers, engineers, producers and performing musicians constantly use the harmonic principles derived from basic acoustics every time they work through a piece.
This book offers a deep analytical dive into the theories of harmonics. It explores many nontraditional approaches such as extended and hyperextended chords and it includes an explanation for the consonance of the elusive minor triad. The book also covers voicing and arranging from a vertical or harmonic perspective, a system of classifying the sonority of each chord, how extended chords impact the listener, and how the composer applies these principles.
Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgments xvii
- Foreword by Warren Pettit
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. Justifying Thirds as a Basis for Analysis
- 2. Tertian Chord in Harmonic Perspective
- 3. Sub-position
- 4. Acoustic Justification
- 5. Psychoacoustic Considerations
- 6. Continuity as a Function of Context and Consonance
- 7. Tone-Sustaining Issues
- 8. Principles of Separation
- 9. Linear Concepts
- 10. Harmonic Permutations of Chordal Klang
- 11. Complex Chord Systems Using Harmonic Matrices
- 12. Manifesting Inaudible Sound
- 13. Chord Classification
- 14. The Minor Triad
- 15. Shifting Harmonic Imagery
- 16. Hyperextended Chords
- 17. The Approach Tone and Chord
- 18. Jazz Analysis and Context Using Hyperextended Tones
- 19. Approach Chords Applied in Improvisation
- 20. The Blue Tonality and the Augmented Twenty-Third
- 21. The Enigmatic Spanish Phrygian: A Contextual Case Study
- 22. Concert Music Analysis
- 23. Light Correlations: Conjecture
- Glossary
- Appendix A: Graphs
- Appendix B: Additional Musical Figures
- Appendix C: Methodology and Systems
- Chapter Notes
- Sources and Further Reading
- Index
