Harmony / 6
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Walter Piston.
- Fourth edition / revised and expanded by Mark Devoto.
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- xix, 594 p. : music 24 cm.
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Includes indexes.
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.
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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 harmonization exercises.