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Harmonic Experience : Tonal Harmonic from Its Natural Origins to Its Modern Expression / W. A. Mathieu

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Vermont: Inner Traditions International, 1997Description: 560 pISBN:
  • 0-89281-560-4
DDC classification:
  • 781.4 M431 har
Summary: PART ONE HARMONIC PURITY: FEELING THE NUMBERS 1. Seeing air and touching sound 2. Singing unison with a drone 3. Singing octaves 4, Singing perfect fifths 5. Singing mayor thirds 6. A map of harmonic relationships 7. The perfect fifth below: Hello, mother 8. The major third below 9. The central section of the map completed 10. The five-limt lattice of twelvw notes 11. Available modes: Lydian through Phrygian 12. Mixed modes 13. Internalizing the lattice 14. Numbers and mysteries 15. Chromatic Pairs 16. Beyond twelve notes: the extended five-limit lattice 17. The seventh partial and beyond 18. The practice of pure harmony PART TWO THE SELECTIVE USE OF EQUAL TEMPERAMENT 19. Leaping from Paradise 20. Six unambigous chords 21. Twelve unambiguous chords: tonal harmony within the Lattice of twelve notes 22. Unambiguous triadic harmony in the extended lattice 23. Dronality in Equal temperament: Lydian through Phrygian 24. Dronality in Equal temperament: mixed modes 25. Chromatic pairs and the magic mode 26. Pushing the magic mode envelope PART THREE THE FUNCTIONAL COMMAS OF EQUAL-TEMPERED TONAL HAYMONY 27. Comma phenomena 28. Didymic pairs of tones 29. Didymic pairs of triads 30. The great diesis; the beauty of the beast 31. The tonal array of the great diesis 32. The diaschisma 33. Quasi-functional and nonfunctional commas 34. The shape of tonality PART FOUR HARMONIC PRACTICE, ANALYSIS AND REVIEW OF THE THEORY 35. Practical matters 36. A small syllabus of diatonic sequences 37. Cadential practices: parallel borrowing 38. The long cadence: a comprehensive view of cadential energy 39. Tonicization and modulation 40. Modal modulation 41. A syllabus of cyclic sequences 42. Symmetrical harmony and the dissolution of tonality 43. The notation of positional analysis 44. Review of the theory
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PART ONE
HARMONIC PURITY: FEELING THE NUMBERS
1. Seeing air and touching sound 2. Singing unison with a drone 3. Singing octaves 4, Singing perfect fifths 5. Singing mayor thirds 6. A map of harmonic relationships 7. The perfect fifth below: Hello, mother 8. The major third below 9. The central section of the map completed 10. The five-limt lattice of twelvw notes 11. Available modes: Lydian through Phrygian 12. Mixed modes 13. Internalizing the lattice 14. Numbers and mysteries 15. Chromatic Pairs 16. Beyond twelve notes: the extended five-limit lattice
17. The seventh partial and beyond 18. The practice of pure harmony
PART TWO
THE SELECTIVE USE OF EQUAL TEMPERAMENT
19. Leaping from Paradise 20. Six unambigous chords 21. Twelve unambiguous chords: tonal harmony within the Lattice of twelve notes 22. Unambiguous triadic harmony in the extended lattice 23. Dronality in Equal temperament: Lydian through Phrygian 24. Dronality in Equal temperament: mixed modes 25. Chromatic pairs and the magic mode
26. Pushing the magic mode envelope
PART THREE
THE FUNCTIONAL COMMAS OF EQUAL-TEMPERED TONAL HAYMONY
27. Comma phenomena 28. Didymic pairs of tones 29. Didymic pairs of triads 30. The great diesis; the beauty of the beast
31. The tonal array of the great diesis 32. The diaschisma 33. Quasi-functional and nonfunctional commas 34. The shape of tonality
PART FOUR
HARMONIC PRACTICE, ANALYSIS AND REVIEW OF THE THEORY
35. Practical matters 36. A small syllabus of diatonic sequences 37. Cadential practices: parallel borrowing 38. The long cadence: a comprehensive view of cadential energy 39. Tonicization and modulation 40. Modal modulation 41. A syllabus of cyclic sequences 42. Symmetrical harmony and the dissolution of tonality 43. The notation of positional analysis 44. Review of the theory

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