Modern Harmony - Lesson 1: Linear Harmony (part 2)

[@JJBerthume]

These are wonderful!

[@sallylauper8222]

I love studying harmony. Almost as much as hearing it!

[@guitargod6997]

Wonderful insights and most importantly audio examples that flesh out the concept so beautifully! Thanks from my heart!

[@francobonanni3499]

A great perspective on basic principles of modern harmony. Thank you for your teaching hopefully in other videos. Wonderful lesson well explained. Thank you Prof.

[@luiza177music]

I'm loving the interesting textures that are being introduced here, and in the past video. I still don't really get what's going on harmonically in some examples (like 1i, or ex 2, etc), but hopefully we'll get there at some point. Thank you for taking this on, I've been searching for material on modern harmony.

[@pedriytb303]

I am sure you dont need to hear it,but you are a great teacher,thanks a lot for your knowledge

[@blarewolf]

Example 6b just melted my ears

[@halflearned2190]

Really great. These should have 1000s of views.

[@aspirativemusicproduction2135]

I am imagining your music as movie track. It's kinda dreamy and somewhat dark which I like.

[@rubenmolino5193]

MUCHISIMAS GRACIAS ! MAESTRO !!DESDE ARGENTINA !!

[@DB-sd1il]

Thank you for sharing your talents with us!

[@boyisun]

Fantastic lesson!

[@vahidtehraniazad4319]

thank you so much . you are really great teacher . it is really useful .

[@MrAchandrachud]

That was fantastic

[@gabrielkaz5250]

the series of 8 sound rlly goodly

[@OdinComposer]

Fantastic video! Ex 6b reminds me of the LOTR soundtrack.

[@hhsmith96]

for example 8a; you talk about resolving the dissonance to another voice.... can i the resolution chord also be dissonant to the melody? the Bb to the F in the melody is a pretty disjunct... does that work?

[@shawnvstaden]

AhA! Thank you... ex 4a + 4b reminds me of Inon Zur's music in the Fallout series. Leaps work well in writing for themes of spacious adventuring in a score, correct?

[@TheyBenefit]

Idk why but I can't follow these videos. I'm trying my hardest and followed a similar course available on Coursera two years ago, but I struggle. I thought a neighbor tone passes stepwise from a chord tone and then returns on the next beat? I think having an indicator would help since i'm having trouble seeing the NT on the some of the examples.

[@zcvs-x9k]

Thank You!

[@diegone65]

Fantastic

[@hhsmith96]

what scale are you using in example 8d? why the d# in the last chord? is it just what your ear wanted or were you using a specific scale?

[@jammerco326111]

Hi sir ... what you recommend for a new composer to start ?? book and reference for 20th century music and Marden music ??

[@75groove]

Very interesting! Are those things explained in the book "Musical Composition: Craft and Art"?

[@75groove]

@Alan Belkin Thanks

[@ChronoMune]

Very weird that his comment is gone. Remember what he said?

[@75groove]

@@ChronoMune No... I'm sorry

[@boldapples]

On example 6a, I don't really understand how you landed on a consonance.

[@luiza177music]

Isn't an ornamented pedal essentially an ostinato?

[@kiren3168]

Ostinato doesnt have to stay on the same note. A pedal note has to stay on the same pitch.

[@mingxuan9521]

@@kiren3168 Thanks for the answer, oftentimes I've been told a pedal point is when the bass remains static while the melody flows, and that an ostinato is the opposite thing. Now I see the light!

[@drrodopszin]

While I'm doing this course, writing them into my DAW to play with them, I started thinking how hard is to take examples like this, since a lot of the efficacy of techniques depend on the patterns established in the song/composition. If you have avoided consonant chords while also arrange the dissonant ones into an easily identifiable patterns pulling out a couple of consonant chords might not feel resolution, it might feel "off". So what I'm trying to say that things that might or might not work in these snippets would have a very different effect when they are utilized in a composition.

[@ericsjunkyard]

Totally agree, but still want to study them. These ideas are giving us musical vocabulary, so we can find the right dissonance to use in the right place. Without this vocabulary, we might struggle to find a sound that does work in our own compositions.

[@uikel]

Wow