Sound Colours from Classical Harmony to Dodecaphony

Basic exercises of traditional Harmony
Level 3

Instead of a Prologue
The diligent practice of musical parameters gives us that necessary discipline, which aims at the complete liberation of our creativity.
Michail Travlos [2020]

Contents
• Colour expansion of tonality
• Through borrowed triads from the parallel minor scale
• Exercises with use of borrowed triads
a) Figured Bass Harmonization
b) Unfigured Bass Harmonization
c) Melodies Harmonization
• Double borrowed triads
• Exercises with double borrowed triads
a) Figured Bass Harmonization
b) Unfigured Bass Harmonization
c) Melodies Harmonization
• Distant key Modulations
• Axis of sharps and flats
• Use of double borrowed triads for distant key modulation
• Use of double borrowed triads for extreme distant keys (imaginary scales e.g. G minor)
• The centers of a tonality as a means of modulation to imaginary scales
• Example of modulation to all major and minor scales
• Enharmonic modulations
• Exercises on distant keys modulation
a) Figured Bass Harmonization
b) Melodies Harmonization
c) Unfigured Bass Harmonization
• Altered Chords
• Ascending alteration of the 5th
a) Figured Bass Harmonization
b) Melodies Harmonization
• Descending alteration of the 5th
a) Figured Bass Harmonization
b) Melodies Harmonization
• Ascending and descending alteration of the 5th
• Melodies Harmonization
• Sharpening of the IV in the minor mode
• Melodies Harmonization
• Modulation to keys that are a triton apart
a) Figured Bass Harmonization
b) Melodies Harmonization
c) Unfigured Bass Harmonization
• The Neapolitan II triad
a) Figured Bass Harmonization
b) Melodies Harmonization
c) Unfigured Bass Harmonization
• Modulation through the use of Neapolitan triad (IIn)
• Modulation through II Neapolitan
a) Figured Bass Harmonization
b) Unfigured Bass Harmonization
c) Melodies Harmonization
• The V13 chord
• Figured Bass Harmonization
• Melodies Harmonization
• The V11 chord
• The V11# chord
• Non chord tones
• Suspensions
1. Downward resolving Suspensions
Melodies Harmonization
Unfigured Bass Harmonization
2. Upward resolving Suspensions
Figured Bass Harmonization
Melodies Harmonization
3. Simultaneous Suspensions
Figured Bass Harmonization
4. Suspensions resolving to a change of chord position or chord
Figured Bass Harmonization
• Sequences with Suspensions
• Figured Bass Harmonization
• Exercises on all kinds of suspensions
• Figured Bass Harmonization
• Melodies Harmonization
• Unfigured Bass Harmonization
• Appoggiaturas
• Figured Bass Harmonization
• Melodies Harmonization
• Unfigured Bass Harmonization
• Anticipations
• Melodies Harmonization
• Neighbor tones
• Figured Bass Harmonization
• Unfigured Bass Harmonization
• Melodies Harmonization
• Passing notes
• Figured Bass Harmonization
• Melodies Harmonization
• Unfigured Bass Harmonization
• Harmonization of tropical scales
• Approach and Escape Notes
• Melodies Harmonization
• Exercises on Level C
• Melodies Harmonization
• Unfigured Bass Harmonization
• Chorals Harmonization