Figured Harmony at the Keyboard Part 1 / Edition 1

by R. O. Morris

Overview

This book presents figured harmony as a form of aural training. It seeks to make the student more keenly aware of chord-relationships as actual sound. It will increase the student's power to form an inward realization of what a page of music is going to sound like without having actually heard it.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780193214712
Publisher:	Oxford University Press Music
Publication date:	12/31/1968
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	64
Product dimensions:	11.02(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.16(d)

About the Author

Reginald Owen Morris was a British composer and teacher. He was born in York and was educated at Harrow School, New College, Oxford and the Royal College of Music in London, where he subsequently became professor of counterpoint and composition. Morris was considered a brilliant teacher of counterpoint, and wrote a number of influential texts on the subject. Students of Morris included composers Gerald Finzi, Sir Michael Tippett, Constant Lambert, Robin Milford, Anthony Milner, Edmund Rubbra, Bernard Stevens and Jean Coulthard.

Table of Contents

Common chords in root positionFirst inversionsSecond inversionsSuspensionsThe chord of the seventh in root positionThe first inversion of the seventhThe remaining inversions of the seventhAccented passing notes: simple ornamentationMajor and minor ninths and diminished seventhsThe remaining chromatic chords (augmented triad, augmented sixth, Neapolitan sixth)Double and triple suspensionsRests in the bass