Harmonia tonalna
Tonal Harmony

Antoni Poszowski (author)

Discipline: Harmony

Category: Tonal harmony

Type: Textbook / Coursebook / Guide / Companion, Practice materials / Workbook

Manual for students in music academies: a textbook with exercises based on a neo-Riemannian concept of functional harmony. It is based on an extended Hugo Riemann’s terminology and functional annotations combined with Roman numeral type of musical analysis.

Contents: crystallization and development of the main principles of tonal harmony; figured bass symbols; harmonic functions system; triads, seventh chords, ninth chords, etc.; construction, connection, and use of chords in harmonic construction; diatonic, enharmonic, and chromatic modulation;  figurations; pedal note; non-chordal tones and the Chopin chord, altered tones; alterations, the Tristan chord; polytonal technique; introduction to Hermann Erpf’system of functional harmony and harmonic notation.

Keywords: tonal harmony, Erpf's harmonic system, figured bass symbols, harmonic function, neo-Riemannian symbols

Remarks: Third edition, revised and supplemented. 358 pp.

Publication languagePolish
Publication place (country)Poland
Publication place (city)Gdańsk
Publication year1980
Used by (country)POLAND
Used by (city)GDANSK

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