Sound Reasoning
Table of Contents
Part II: Hearing Harmony
18.1 Hearing Harmony: What is Harmony?
18.2 Harmony in Western Music
18.3 Expressing Harmony
18.4 Listening Gallery: Expressing Harmony
18.5 Harmonic Rhythm
18.6 Listening Gallery: Harmonic Rhythm
18.7 Cadences
18.8 Listening Gallery: Cadences
18.9 The Tonic
18.10 Circular and Linear Progressions
18.11 Listening Gallery: Circular and Linear Progressions
18.12 The Major-minor Contrast
18.13 Modes and Scales
18.14 Hearing the Mode
18.15 Listening Gallery: Hearing the Mode
18.16 Tonic, Mode and Key
18.17 Listening Gallery: Tonic, Mode and Key
18.18 Music Within a Key
18.19 Listening Gallery: Music Within a Key
18.20 Postponed Closure
18.21 Listening Gallery: Postponing Closure
18.22 Chromaticism
18.23 Listening Gallery: Chromaticism
18.24 Dissonance
18.25 Leaving the Key
18.26 Harmonic Distance
18.27 Modulation
18.28 Harmonic Goals
18.29 The Return to the Tonic
18.30 Final Closure
18.31 Listening Gallery: Final Closure
18.32 Reharmonizing a Melody
18.33 Listening Gallery: Reharmonizing a Melody
18.34 Conclusion
18.33 Listening Gallery: Reharmonizing a Melody
The following examples pair two examples of a melody from the same work. Evaluate whether the harmonizations are essentially the same or substantially reharmonized.
CHOICES
The harmonizations are different
ANSWER
The harmonizations are different: The two excerpts share only the last two chords! Without altering the melody, Bach even manages to harmonize the first phrases in different modes: That of “Befiehl” in Major whereas “Und ob gleich” is in minor.
CHOICES
The melody is substantially reharmonized
ANSWER
The harmonizations are essentially the same; only the last chords are different.
CHOICES
The harmonizations are different
ANSWER
The harmonizations are different. The first excerpt is in minor, the second in Major.
CHOICES
The harmonizations are different
ANSWER
The harmonizations are different. The first excerpt begins with the melody unaccompanied, while the second one adds harmony throughout; and the first excerpt is completely diatonic until the last chord while the second one is considerably more chromatic.
CHOICES
The harmonizations are different
ANSWER
The second excerpt has a thicker orchestration and new voicings and voice-leading but the harmonizations are the same.
CHOICES
The harmonizations are different
ANSWER
The harmonizations are spectacularly different: The second has a more elaborate harmonic palette and is more chromatic.