Harmony through melody

Harmony Through Melody. The interaction of melody, counterpoint, and harmony in Western music.

Harmony Through Melody offers a composition-based approach to tonal music theory, ranging from early modality to recent film and popular music. This second edition contains additional examples from the standard literature, film music, and popular song, and features new assignments involving late nineteenth-century chromatic practice. The textbook present a step-by-step method for the composition and analysis of short passages and complete pieces, with more than 1400 musical examples drawn from a variety of styles and genres, plus classroom-tested examples for study and suggested assignments at the end of each chapter.

The second edition has an online companion website ([here]) featuring:

• A student workbook with more than 260 assignments for individual work and classroom use
• Audio links to 315 newly-recorded live performances of model compositions and fully realized settings

An instructor’s manual with guidelines for evaluation of assignments, additional repertoire for in-class analysis and assignments, sample syllabi, and other useful information is also available. Please email textbooks@rowman.com for more information.

Horton C, Byrne DA, Ritchey L (2020) Harmony Through Melody. The Interaction of Melody, Counterpoint, and Harmony in Western Music, Second Edition. Second Edition. Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham.

Table of Contents

Part I – Fundamentals

1. Musical Sound and Its Notation

2. Scale and Intervals

3. Modes and Keys

4. Rhythm and Meter

Part II – Modality: Melody and Harmony

5. Melodic Design

6. Duple Paraphrase

7. Harmonic Framework

8. Chordal Succession

Part III – Vocal Melody and Counterpoint

9. Melodic Dialogue

10. Triple Paraphrase

11. Vocal Duet

Part IV – Diatonic Harmony and Tonicization

12. Tonic Confirmation

13. Suspensions and Syncopations

14. Tonicization

15. Elaborating the Lower Voices

16. The Chorale

Part V – Instrumental Melody and Counterpoint

17. Quadruple Paraphrase

18. Instrumental Duet

19. Elaborating the Soprano

20. Accompanied Melody

21. Diatonic Sequence

22. The Minuet

Part VI – Chromatic Harmony and Form

23. Primary Mixture

24. Intensifying the Dominant

25. Intensifying the Tonic

26. Formal Modulation

27. Chromatic Sequence

28. Secondary Mixture

29. The Romance

Part VII – Extensions of Chromatic Tonality

30. Enharmonics

31. Extended Voice-Leading Techniques

32. Twentieth Century Melody

Online resources

The second edition has an online companion website ([here]).