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An Analysis Of Harmonic Color Use By Impressionist Composers, Lennon J. Ashton
An Analysis Of Harmonic Color Use By Impressionist Composers, Lennon J. Ashton
Undergraduate Honors College Theses 2016-
Harmony is the musical element that truly distinguishes Western music from other kinds of music around the world. This is the vertical aspect of music that results when two or more pitches are heard simultaneously. The type of harmony that has formed the basis for most music over the past few centuries is known as tonal harmony. Tonal harmony involves having a tonal center, using major and minor scales, and using tertian chords that are related to one another and to the tonal center in various ways.
There was a period of time when tonal harmony and its principles were …