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====Readings====
====Readings====


*''[https://tobyrush.com/theorypages/ Music Theory for Musicians and Normal People]:''
*[https://tobyrush.com/theorypages/ T. Rush, ''Music Theory for Musicians and Normal People'']'':''
**[https://tobyrush.com/theorypages/pdf/en-us/altered-chords.pdf Altered Chords]
**[https://tobyrush.com/theorypages/pdf/en-us/altered-chords.pdf Altered Chords]
**[https://tobyrush.com/theorypages/pdf/en-us/borrowed-chords.pdf Borrowed Chords]
**[https://tobyrush.com/theorypages/pdf/en-us/borrowed-chords.pdf Borrowed Chords]
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**[https://tobyrush.com/theorypages/pdf/en-us/altered-and-enharmonic-modulation.pdf Altered and Enharmonic Modulation]
**[https://tobyrush.com/theorypages/pdf/en-us/altered-and-enharmonic-modulation.pdf Altered and Enharmonic Modulation]
**[https://tobyrush.com/theorypages/pdf/en-us/secondary-subdominants.pdf Secondary Subdominants]
**[https://tobyrush.com/theorypages/pdf/en-us/secondary-subdominants.pdf Secondary Subdominants]
*''[http://openmusictheory.com Open Music Theory]:''
*[http://openmusictheory.com K. Shaffer, R. Wharton, eds., ''Open Music Theory'']'':''
**[http://openmusictheory.com/alteredSubdominants.html Chromatically Altered Subdominant Chords]
**[http://openmusictheory.com/alteredSubdominants.html Chromatically Altered Subdominant Chords]
**[http://openmusictheory.com/appliedChords.html Applied Chords]
**[http://openmusictheory.com/appliedChords.html Applied Chords]
**[http://openmusictheory.com/modalMixture.html Modal Mixture]
**[http://openmusictheory.com/modalMixture.html Modal Mixture]
*[http://musictheory.pugetsound.edu/mt21c/MusicTheory.html Hutchinson, ''Music Theory for the 21st-Century Classroom'']
*[http://musictheory.pugetsound.edu/mt21c/MusicTheory.html R. Hutchinson, ''Music Theory for the 21st-Century Classroom'']
**[http://musictheory.pugetsound.edu/mt21c/SecondaryDominants.html Chapter 17: Secondary Dominant Chords]
**[http://musictheory.pugetsound.edu/mt21c/SecondaryDominants.html Chapter 17: Secondary Dominant Chords]
**[http://musictheory.pugetsound.edu/mt21c/SecondaryDiminishedChords.html Chapter 18: Secondary Diminished Chords]
**[http://musictheory.pugetsound.edu/mt21c/SecondaryDiminishedChords.html Chapter 18: Secondary Diminished Chords]
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**[http://musictheory.pugetsound.edu/mt21c/AugmentedSixthChords.html Chapter 21: Augmented Sixth Chords]
**[http://musictheory.pugetsound.edu/mt21c/AugmentedSixthChords.html Chapter 21: Augmented Sixth Chords]
**[http://musictheory.pugetsound.edu/mt21c/EnharmonicModulation.html Chapter 23: Enharmonic Modulation]
**[http://musictheory.pugetsound.edu/mt21c/EnharmonicModulation.html Chapter 23: Enharmonic Modulation]
*[https://global.oup.com/us/companion.websites/9780199990870/online/ Snodgrass, ''Contemporary Musicianship:'']
*[https://global.oup.com/us/companion.websites/9780199990870/online/ J. Snodgrass, ''Contemporary Musicianship:'']
**[https://global.oup.com/us/companion.websites/fdscontent/uscompanion/us/static/companion.websites/9780199990870/online_ch2.pdf Chapter 2: “Chromatic Chords Functioning as the Predominant”]<br />
**[https://global.oup.com/us/companion.websites/fdscontent/uscompanion/us/static/companion.websites/9780199990870/online_ch2.pdf Chapter 2: “Chromatic Chords Functioning as the Predominant”]<br />



Revision as of 18:50, 29 July 2020

This lesson is part of the Harmony category.

Objectives

  • Students will be familiar with common chromatic harmonic vocabulary, including the Neapolitan chord, borrowed chords and augmented sixth chords.
  • Students will be able to substitute chromatic chords into a diatonic chord progression.
  • Students will be familiar with enharmonic modulation and tritone substitution.

Resources

Readings

Class Activities

  • Discussion and definition of chromatic harmonic vocabulary
  • Harmonic analysis of music from different genres and time periods
  • Substitution or insertion of chromatic chords into a given diatonic chord progression
  • Composition and improvisation of chord progressions which use altered or enharmonic modulation to modulate between two given keys

Assignments

  • Notation of various chromatic chords in a given key
  • Identification and analysis of chromatic harmony in written and recorded music
  • Substitution of chromatic chords into a diatonic chord progression
  • Composition of a chord progression which uses chromatic harmony

Files

Notes