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. George Pratt's explanations of concepts such as 'real' and 'substitute' chords. of false distinctions between 'major' and 'minor' and of the simple basis of seemingly complex chromatic harmony enables readers to grasp the principles of harmonic progression, and to see most progressions as a
form of 'dominant-powered' movement.
He 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.
- ISBN10 0198790201
- ISBN13 9780198790204
- Publish Date 10 October 1996 (first published 16 December 1984)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 15 March 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Oxford University Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 162
- Language English