Pantriadicism & Chromatic Mediants

This lesson is part of the Harmony category.

Objectives

• Students will become familiar with different levels of pantriadicism and suspended tonality, including third relations and non-functional harmony.

Class Activities

• Discussion and definition of third relations and non-functional harmony, both within otherwise tonal constructs and as independent forms
• Macro-harmonic analysis of pantriadicism in different styles of music
• Improvisation of pantriadic chord sequence
• Composition of pantriadic chord sequence to accompany a given melody

Assignments

• Analysis of quasi-tonal and post-tonal techniques in written and recorded music