Analysis of Harmony and Tonal Structure

Analysis of Harmony and Tonal Structure – Special Program

The course is designed for the students who want to advance their harmony and analysis knowledge after Grade 8 music theory study. Since many courses provided by the private sectors are mainly for examination purpose, this is rather difficult for those non-music-major students who want to improve their advance musical knowledge. As such, the course to fulfill such need is set up.

The analytical approach provided by this Special Program is based on the 20th century important music analytical theory – Schenkerian Analysis. Instead of learning tonal harmony as an individual unit each moving on a unidirectional horizon, the revisions provided in this course will offer a broader dimension on the analysis of a large-scale harmonic structure of a musical work by applying Schenkerian Principles.

Course Contents:

Lesson 01	Introduction Notes on Musical Reduction Basic Schenkerian Principles	Analysis of 18-th and 19^th– century musical works in the Classical Tradition (by David Beach)
Lesson 02	A Review of Diatonic Harmony -I	Designation of Pitch and Chords Tonal Functions Common Sequential Patterns
Lesson 03	A Review of Diatonic Harmony -II	Passing and Neighboring Chords Functions of Individual Chords Summary of Concepts / Terminology
Lesson 04	Expanding the Diatonic Palette – I	Secondary Dominants and Dim 7^th Chromaticized Sequences
Lesson 05	Expanding the Diatonic Palette – II	Diatonic Modulation Mod. From an Initial Major Key
Lesson 06	Phrase Design – I	What is a phrase? Phrase Construction and Combination I
Lesson 07	Phrase Design – II	Phrase Construction and Combination II Phrase Construction and Combination III
Lesson 08	Phrase Design – III	Phrase Elision and Hypermeter Phrase Expansion Internal Phrase Expansions
Lesson 09	Further Expansion of the Harmonic Palette – I	Modal Mixture Two Important Chromatic Chords: A6 and N6
Lesson 10	Further Expansion of the Harmonic Palette – II	Analysis (Beethoven) Modulation