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REINFORCED BINDING Tonal Harmony
Stefan Kostka 8th Edition, © 2018

TONAL
Dorothy Payne
Kostka
Byron Almén

Harmony
With an Introduction to Post-Tonal Music
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For more than two decades, Tonal Harmony has been
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Chapter Seven
Harmonic Progression
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Introduction
Tonal harmony developed slowly out of the great polyphonic* modal tradition of the
Renaissance period (from around 1430 to about 1600). That Renaissance tradition depended
in turn on the “rules” of counterpoint that had begun to be developed in the late Middle
Ages. The application of those rules resulted in certain recurring and recognizable combina-
This edition also includes:
tions of chords, and out of that, the norms of tonal harmony gradually coalesced, norms that
form the heart of this chapter. Let us be clear: Tonal harmony was not “invented”; it devel-
oped from counterpoint. Yet harmony can be, and frequently is, taught as a separate subject
from counterpoint in colleges and universities. In this text, we have already alluded to basic
contrapuntal principles of good melodic writing (p. 66). In future chapters (pp. 122, and 171),
we will consider the relationship of harmony and melody in greater detail.
• Student workbook (available in print and digital
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Before you can begin to compose convincing tonal music or to learn anything from har-
monic analyses, you must learn which chord successions are typical of tonal harmony and
which ones are not. Why is it that some chord successions seem to “progress,” to move for-
ward toward a goal, whereas others tend to wander, to leave our expectations unfulfilled?
Compare the two progressions in Example 7-1. The first was composed following the prin-
ciples that will be discussed in this chapter, but the chords for the second were selected
randomly. Although the random example has a certain freshness to it, there is no doubt that
the first one sounds more typical of tonal harmony. This chapter will explore this phenom-
enon, but first we must turn to a topic that concerns melody as well as harmony.
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Example 7-1

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Table of Contents

PART 1 Fundamentals CHAPTER 11 Two-Part Tonal Counterpoint PART 5 Chromaticism 2

CHAPTER 1 Elements of Pitch CHAPTER 12 Nonchord Tones 1 CHAPTER 21 Mode Mixture and the
Neapolitan
CHAPTER 2 Elements of Rhythm CHAPTER 13 Nonchord Tones 2
CHAPTER 22 Augmented Sixth Chords
CHAPTER 3 Introduction to Triads and PART 3 Diatonic Seventh Chords
Seventh Chords CHAPTER 23 Enharmonic Spellings and
CHAPTER 14 The V7 Chord
Enharmonic Modulations
CHAPTER 4 Diatonic Chords in Major and
CHAPTER 15 Other Diatonic Seventh
Minor Keys CHAPTER 24 Further Elements of the
Chords
Harmonic Vocabulary
PART 2 Diatonic Triads
PART 4 Chromaticism
CHAPTER 25 Tonal Harmony in the Late
CHAPTER 5 Principles of Voice Leading
CHAPTER 16 Secondary Functions 1 Nineteenth Century
CHAPTER 6 Root Position Part Writing
CHAPTER 17 Secondary Functions 2 PART 6 An Introduction to
CHAPTER 7 Harmonic Progression Twentieth-Century Music
CHAPTER 18 Modulations Using Diatonic
CHAPTER 8 Triads in First Inversion Common Chords CHAPTER 26 Materials and Techniques

CHAPTER 9 Triads in Second Inversion CHAPTER 19 Some Other Modulatory CHAPTER 27 Post-Tonal Theory
Techniques CHAPTER 28 New Directions
CHAPTER 10 Cadences, Phrases, Periods,
and Sentences CHAPTER 20 Binary and Ternary Forms

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