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In Action-Music Harmony 3, learn the classic blockbuster sound of chords with more than one tonic. Also learn how a large number of action chords are built from a consistent set of notes called “action extensions”. Exercises are included in this course.
In Action-Music Harmony 4, learn how to construct classic atonal and quartal action chords and how expressions in an action cue tend to be associated with certain types of action harmonies. We break down two complete classic action cues and watch a new action cue composed with harmonies from all four Action-Music Harmony courses. Exercises are included in this course.
Action-Music Harmony 3 – Breakdown
Lesson 7 – Composing with Dissonant-Tonal Chords
- Understanding How Action Chords Are Used
- Expanding a Single Chord with “Action Extensions”
- Overview
- The m(b6), M(b6) and augM7(#9)
- Polytonal Voicings of Action Chords
- Overview
- The m(b6)
- The mM7(b6)
- The mM9(b6)
- The mM7(add#4)
- The mM9(add#4)
- The Mm(M7,b6)
- Unifying Action Chords
- Progressions with Chords from Different Action Scales
- Composing Out a Chord
- Composing Out a Scale
Lesson 8 – Dissonant-Bass Chords
- Preliminaries
- What Are Dissonant-Bass Chords?
- How Dissonant-Bass Chords Are Used
- Major Chord + Dissonant Bass
- +1 Major
- +4 Major
- +6 Major
- +9 Major
- +11 Major
- Minor Chord + Dissonant Bass
- +1 Minor
- +3 Minor
- +6 Minor
- +8 Minor
- +10 Minor
- +11 Minor
- Dissonant-Tonal Chord + Dissonant Bass
- Overview
- A Final Example
Lesson 9 – Polychords
- Overview
- Defining Polychords
- Common Polychords and Their Component Chords
- Typical Associations
- Pedal Point with Polychords
- Quiet-Tension Polychords Next to Action Music
- +11 Polychords
- +6 Polychords
- Polychords for Mystery in Action Scenes
- +4 Polychords
- Other Hexatonic Polychords
- Other Associations of Polychords
- Mortal Dread
- Brutal Strength
Action-Music Harmony 4 – Breakdown
Lesson 10 – Tonalizing Atonal Chords
- “Action-Tonic” Chords
- As a Dyad
- As 3-Note Chords
- As 4- or 5-Note Chords
- Mirroring Tonal Practices
- Separating a 3rd
- Resembling a Tonic Chord
- Organizing with a Diatonic Melody
- Extending Atonal Chords
- Breaking Up (0134) Chords
- Combining (0134) Chords
- Varying a Single Atonal Chord
Lesson 11 – Expressive Quartal Chords
- Perfect Quartal Chords and Their Re-Voicings
- Overview
- Strong, Powerful – Rising 4ths
- In Trouble – Falling 2nds
- Intensifying – Rising 2nds
- Varying Quartal Chords
- Imperfect Quartal Chords
- Gapped Quartal Chords and “Secundal Harmony”
- Augmented Triads in Action Music
- Overview
- Expressions of Augmented Triads
Lesson 12 – Putting It All Together
- Summarizing Action Harmony
- Harmony Types and Their Expressive Uses
- Melody and Accompaniment
- Action Cue Analyses
- Joining Sections with Similarities in Material
- Complete Cue 1
- Dyads of 3rds as the Basis of a Cue
- Complete Cue 2
- Composing an Action Cue
- Planning Material According to the Scene
- Cue, Section 1 – The Chase Begins
- Cue, Section 2 – Into the Cave
- Cue, Section 3 – Starting an Avalanche
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