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Popular Harmony and Harmonic Loops

April 5, 2020April 9, 2020Stefanie Acevedo

Readings

Basics of popular harmonies:

  • Tagg on non-CPT harmony
  • Harmony in Pop-Rock Music (focus on each of the sample progressions labeled “schemata”)
  • Top40Theory Blog on Pentatonic Scale Use in Pop/Rock

Materials from class

  • Handout (from last semester): Cadences and Phrases
  • Handout: Common Pop Progressions (supplements Schaffer reading)

Resources

  • Hook Theory Chord Progression Search
  • Top40 Theory Blog

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Music Theory Readings

  • Table of Contents
    • Diatonic Harmony
    • Form
    • Meter & Beats
    • Melodic Writing
    • Counterpoint
    • Timbre and Notation
    • Harmony and Stylistic Norms
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