The two-semester Harmony sequence covers the melodic and harmonic devices specific to the Western European common practice period from 1600 to 1920. Attention is given to harmonic practice of the 20th century and beyond
in the second semester.

Har280A
Western European Harmonic
Practice from 1600 to 1820
3 units
Focusing on compositions from the Baroque
and Classical periods, this first-semester
course covers preparatory material for the
study of harmony, figured bass, harmonization
of melodies, voice leading, cadences, theory
of chord progression, chord progressions
in the diatonic major and minor, chord
inversions, and an introduction to analysis.
3 hours lecture

Har280B
Western European Harmonic
Practice from 1820 to the Present
3 units
Focusing on compositional styles of the
Romantic and Contemporary Periods, this
second-semester course covers formal analysis,
melodic enharmonics, the augmented 6th
group, extended tonality, tonicization and
modulation, modal considerations, sequences,
parallel harmony, opposed scales, pedal point,
equal division of the octave, and modulation.
3 hours lecture