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Chromatic Harmony

Modal mixture, Neapolitan and augmented sixth chords, enharmonic modulation and late-Romantic voice leading on the staff. Free with an account.

Created by Eddie Borbon, composer and doctoral researcher.

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Syllabus

Chapter 1: Mode Mixture and the Neapolitan

  1. What is Chromaticism
  2. Modal Mixture
  3. Borrowed Chords in Minor
  4. The ♭6 in Major
  5. Other Borrowed Chords in Major
  6. Voice Leading in Modal Mixture
  7. The Neapolitan Chord
  8. Resolving the Neapolitan
  9. The Neapolitan in Other Positions and as a Pivot
  10. Modulating with Mixture and the Neapolitan

Chapter 2: Augmented Sixth Chords

  1. The Augmented Sixth Interval
  2. Origin of its Notes
  3. The Italian Sixth
  4. The French Sixth
  5. The German Sixth
  6. Comparing the Three Sixths
  7. Other Bass Positions
  8. Resolutions to Other Scale Degrees
  9. The Augmented Sixth as a Pivot
  10. History and Repertoire

Chapter 3: Enharmonic Spellings and Modulations

  1. Enharmonic Spelling
  2. Enharmonic Reinterpretation
  3. Dominant Seventh and German Sixth
  4. Modulating with the Major-Minor Seventh
  5. The Diminished Seventh
  6. Modulating with the Diminished Seventh
  7. Clear Notation for Reading
  8. Other Examples in the Repertoire

Chapter 4: Altered Dominants and Extensions

  1. Dominant with Substituted Sixth
  2. Dominant with Augmented Fifth
  3. The Ninth Chord
  4. Elevenths and Thirteenths
  5. Resolution of Extensions
  6. Common-Tone Diminished Seventh
  7. Common-Tone Chords on I and V
  8. Extensions in Popular Music and Jazz

Chapter 5: Late Nineteenth-Century Harmony

  1. Tonal Expansion in the 19th Century
  2. Chromatic Mediants
  3. The Four Mediants and Common Tones
  4. Mediant Chains
  5. Voice Leading by Semitone
  6. Chromatic Sequences
  7. The Omnibus Chord
  8. The Threshold of Post-Tonality