Major Diatonic Harmony

This lesson is part of the Harmony category.

Objectives

• Students will be familiar with the (usual) musical roles and tendencies of each diatonic chord in a major key.
• Students will be able to identify tendency tones within each harmony

Class Activities

• Exploration of diatonic harmony in different major keys
• Analysis of music from multiple genres and time periods which utilize diatonic harmony
• Improvised performance using diatonic harmony

Assignments

• Harmonic analysis of a simple musical excerpt