Beyond Functional Harmony

Beyond Functional Harmony"" presents a system that creates melody and harmony and allows them to function outside of the normal dependencies governing the principles of diatonic harmony, melody and form. This system should give the composer a departure point from the harmonic and melodic characteristics grounded in the principles of tonal, key related or functional harmony. This text should be undertaken in the same spirit in which it was written - an excitement of discovery, an enthusiasm for new ideas, and an ongoing pursuit for personal growth and development. Developed at the Berklee College of Music. Cover 1 Beyond Functional Harmony 2 Table of Contents 4 Cd index 6 Special Thanks 7 Preface 8 Introduction 9 Functional vs. non-functional 10 Part 1 11 Elements of predictability 12 Functional fundamental characteristics 13 Harmonic 13 Key areas 19 Harmonic phrase 20 Harmonic rhythm 21 Rhythmic style 22 Melody 23 Solos 24 Part 2 25 Non-functional fundamental characteristics 26 Key areas 26 Root motion 31 Form 35 Bass function 40 Rhythm 41 Melody 42 Harmonic progression 43 Ambiguous chord types 43 Instrumentation 48 Part 3 49 Non-functional systems and patterns 50 Constant structure 51 Pedal point 59 Contiguous harmonic patterns 61 Multi-tonic systems 66 Reharmonization of multi-tonic systems 68 Part 4 70 Non-functional techniques and criteria 71 Tone row construction (8-note series) 72 Chord quality criteria 73 Melodic criteria 75 Chord scale criteria 77 Development 78 Intro / Outro patterns 83 Non-functional melodic approach 91 Melody-bass line technique 93 Part 5 95 Non-functional music examples 96 Cd track number 12- "the D.C. gig" 96 Cd track number 13 - "the soap braker 100 Cd track number 14 - "pas de deux" 104 Discography 109 About the author 110 Developed at the Berklee College of Music, Beyond Functional Harmony presents a system that creates melody and harmony, and allows them to function outside of the normal dependencies governing the principles of diatonic harmony, melody, and form. This system should give the composer a departure point from the harmonic and melodic characteristics grounded in the principles of tonal, key related, or functional harmony.