Week 2

 

Chromatic Harmonies, taken from Chapter 35 in the Laitz

 

Embellishing Chromatic Chords: Augmented Triads, Altered V7, Common-Tone °7 and +6 chords.  Modal ambiguity.

 

Video tutorials

 

Chromatic embellishing chords and Altered fifths

 

Common-tone chords: sevenths and Gr6/5

 

Homework

 

Assignment 2 in pdf, in sibelius

due Thursday, Oct. 6

 

Assignment 3 in pdf, in sibelius

due Thursday, Oct. 13

 

Audio for Assignment 3

 

Read

 

Excerpts from the Laitz, Chapter 35

 

For those with the text:

Altered Dominant and Augmented triad, pp. 813-19
Common-tone harmonies, pp. 820-24

Extra fun:

The Omnibus progression, pp. 845-46

 

For next week:

Extended Harmony Handout

 

Chapter on Extended Harmonies from Robert Gauldin, Harmonic Practice in Tonal Music