David Nivans

Finding the Right Pitch David Nivans

FINDING THE RIGHT PITCH III: A GUIDE TO THE STUDY OF ADVANCED HARMONY examines diatonicism and chromaticism in tonal music, beginning with the incorporation of minor-mode elements into major ("primary borrowing"), apparent sonorities, and applied chords. This volume includes an introduction to small form and a chapter devoted to modulation. Six varieties of altered triads and sevenths are investigated: degree-inflected dominants, the Neapolitan 6th and Phrygian supertonic, common-tone fully diminished sevenths, augmented 6th chords derived from leading-tone sevenths, the "ethnic" augmented 6th, and alterations of diminished chords other than those originating on the leading tone. Three additional types of modal exchange ("secondary borrowing") are surveyed. Type I of this category arises from the complete interchangeability of parallel major and minor modes. Type II results from the complete interchangeability of major with parallel non-major-minor modes. Type III involves alterations of chords that otherwise exist within types I and II, yielding chords of sonoric substitution. Numerous types of diatonic and chromatic sequences are displayed, within both harmonic and contrapuntal frameworks. FINDING THE RIGHT PITCH III concludes with chords of the ninth, eleventh, and thirteenth. More than 400 examples demonstrate the concepts presented in the text. 332 pages.