Chromatic Harmony

This lesson is part of the Harmony category.

Objectives

• Students will be familiar with common chromatic harmonic vocabulary, including the Neapolitan chord, borrowed chords and augmented sixth chords.
• Students will be able to substitute chromatic chords into a diatonic chord progression.
• Students will be familiar with enharmonic modulation and tritone substitution.

Resources

• Music Theory for Musicians and Normal People:
  • Altered Chords
  • Borrowed Chords
  • The Neapolitan Six
  • Secondary Dominants
  • Augmented Sixth Chords
  • Altered and Enharmonic Modulation
  • Secondary Subdominants
• Open Music Theory:
  • Chromatically Altered Subdominant Chords
  • Applied Chords
  • Modal Mixture
    

Class Activities

• Discussion and definition of chromatic harmonic vocabulary
• Harmonic analysis of music from different genres and time periods
• Substitution or insertion of chromatic chords into a given diatonic chord progression
• Composition and improvisation of chord progressions which use altered or enharmonic modulation to modulate between two given keys

Assignments

• Notation of various chromatic chords in a given key
• Identification and analysis of chromatic harmony in written and recorded music
• Substitution of chromatic chords into a diatonic chord progression
• Composition of a chord progression which uses chromatic harmony

Files

• Chromatic Harmony Assignment (Finale | MusicXML | PDF)

Notes

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