Harmony

A few of the different stylistic approaches available and utilised:

  • Monody and Drones

  • Canon

  • Counterpoint

  • Diatonic Modes and other Native Systems, including exotic scales and PC Sets

  • Partimento and Galant Schemata

  • Common Practices (e.g. Tertian, suspensions, preparations, ornaments)

  • Pivots, Modulations and Tonicizations

  • Constant Structure (a.k.a. chord planing, or parallel movement)

  • Secondary Functions

  • Borrowed Chords

  • Substitutions and Alterations

  • Multi Tonic System

  • Neo-Riemannian Theory, including parsimonious transitions

  • Axis System

  • 12 Tone (Dodecaphonic)

  • Mutually Exclusive Triads, Tetrads, and Complementaries (Duodecimal, or limited within specified PC Sets)

  • Serialism

  • Quartal, Quintal and other non-Tertian systems

  • Clusters

  • Tintinnabuli

  • Microtonality

  • Polytonality

  • Temperament Exoticism (e.g. 55-Div, 31-EDO, Bohlen-Pierce)

  • Blues (cf. Constant Structure, but also Microtonality)