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HARMONIC EXPANSIONS: Watch your harmonies grow!



TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Introduction

Chapter One, The Fundamental Harmonic Progression
  1. The tonic triad
  2. Expanding the tonic triad with lower neighbors
  3. The Fundamental Harmonic Progression and the birth of the dominant
  4. Expanding the tonic triad with upper neighbors
  5. Expanding the tonic triad with passing tones
  6. Expanding the initial tonic with consonant skips
  7. Expanding the dominant with consonant skips; Changing Tones
  8. Dictations

Chapter Two, Nonharmonic Tones
[Also see the contextual listening resource list for nonharmonic tones]
  1. Introduction
  2. Neighbor Tones
  3. Passing Tones
  4. Accented Neighbor and Passing Tones
  5. Dictations 1
  6. Escape Tones
  7. Anticipations
  8. Suspensions
  9. Dictations 2
  10. Retardations
  11. Pedals or Pedal Points
  12. Changing Tones
  13. Appoggiaturas
  14. Dictations 3

Chapter Three, 6/4 Linear Expansions
  1. Introduction
  2. The Cadential 6/4
  3. Navigating Levels of Analysis
  4. Voice Exchange
  5. The Passing 6/4
  6. The Neighbor (or Pedal) 6/4
  7. The Arpeggiated 6/4
  8. Exploring Levels of Analysis
  9. 6/4 Summary
  10. Dictations

Chapter Four, Inserting Pre-dominants and the Circle Progression
  1. Introduction
  2. The pre-dominant, ii
  3. IV as a pre-dominant
  4. The pre-dominant, ii6
  5. ii6 as a preparation for cadential 6/4
  6. vi and the circle progression, vi ii V I
  7. Limits on the sequence of chords in circle progressions
  8. Dictations

Chapter Five, More Tonic Expansions
  1. Introduction
  2. Passing vii°6
  3. Passing vii°6 and passing V6/4
  4. Neighboring V6
  5. IV as a tonic expansion
  6. vi as a tonic expansion
  7. Harmonic Dictations

Chapter Six, Periods and Cadences
  1. Introduction
  2. Perfect Authentic and Half Cadences in Parallel Interrupted Periods
  3. Imperfect Authentic Cadences
  4. Contrasting Periods
  5. Half Cadences in Continuous Periods
  6. Deceptive Cadences in Continuous Periods
  7. Plagal Cadences
  8. Harmonic Dictations

Index
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