Learn harmony that goes beyond the tonal tradition. Start with deriving chords and melodies from non-diatonic scales like the whole tone and Phrygian dominant. Then move into common dissonant chords like those built from stacked 2nds, atonal chords with semitone dissonances, and polychords that include atonal chords. Finally, learn how to write 12-tone rows with musical character and explore a range of modernist techniques like composing with clusters, extreme registers, and writing aleatoric music to give your music an eerie and foreboding sound.
Extended Tonal and Atonal Harmony – Breakdown
Lesson 1 – Non-Diatonic Scales
- Pentatonic Scales
- Major and Minor Pentatonic Melodies
- Pentatonic Mixture Melodies
- Harmonizing with Dyads
- Harmonizing with Diatonic Harmony
- Composition 1
- Whole-Tone Scales
- Typical 2-, 3-, and 4-Note Chords
- Combining Harmonic Materials
- Composition 2
- Augmented-2nd Scales
- Phrygian Dominant
- Variants of Phrygian Dominant
- Hungarian Minor
- Composition 3
Lesson 2 – Extended Tonal and Atonal Chords
- Extended-Tonal Chords
- The M(b6) Chord
- Dissonant-Bass Chords
- Polychords
- Polytonally-Voiced Chords
- Voice-Leading Chords
- Sequences with Voice-Leading Chords
- Composition 1
- Atonal Chords
- Chords from Stacked 2nds
- Common 3-Note Sets
- Common 4- and 5-Note Sets
- Dissonant-Chord Polychords
- Composition 2
Lesson 3 – Advanced and Extended Techniques
- The Twelve-Tone System
- Twelve-Tone Rows and Operations
- Subsets
- Invariants
- Composition 1
- Other Post-Tonal Techniques
- Composing with Clusters
- Extreme Registers
- Aleatoric Music
- Final Examples
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- Larger Texture
- Composition 2
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