The Dynamics of Harmony
Subtitle: Principles and Practice
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: January 27, 1997
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780198790204
Description: This is a readable and imaginative book presenting, with infectious enthusiasm, a sensible simplification of the main processes of classical harmony in the Bach-Schubert period. Pratt focuses his study on Bach chorales, Mozart piano sonatas, and a Schubert song cycle, thereby providing depth, variety, and a realistic sense of a context of 'real music' to his explanations and to the exercises. But he also offers the reader an immediate invitation to apply the same principles to an immense range of musical literature from Monteverdi to Scott Joplin.