Developing Skills

• Southern African Influences On Harmony Signing And Their Potential

  While Harmony Signing is clearly derived in its methods and assumptions from the practices of European music since the Renaissance,...

• Short Cuts To Alternative Modulatory Pathways

  The potential for changing key as a procedure available within Harmony Signing has been introduced in considering Modulation and the...

• Rhythmic Patterns In Chord Progressions

  Most of the exercises introduced thus far have provided a limited representation of the role of rhythm, and where this...

• Modulation

  Some initial examples of modulation are introduced in exploring Tonicising and Access to the circle of fifths, and The chord...

• Modes And Tuning

  Harmony Signing has developed to support several different aspects of musical learning. Its democratic, social methods contribute to preserving the...

• Mixed Mode Challenges Such As ‘Greensleeves’

  Once leaders and participants have become fluent in responding to two-handed Harmony Signing in which melody is led by the...

• ‘Diagonal Movement’ And Its Connection To Instrumental Techniques

  Harmony Signing had its origins in a cappella vocal polyphony, and its voice-leading principles were strongly influenced by Fux’s account...

• Working With Instruments

  Working with instruments In terms of the development of musicianship and aural skills, the relationship between vocal experience and learning...

• The Whole Tone Scale

  The whole tone scale The whole tone scale emerged in 19th Century music, and its distinctive harmony can be found...

• The Secondary Triads For Major And Minor

  If you have already read and understood Getting started with Harmony Signing, and, even better, you have built up practical...

• The Role Of ‘Tracking’ In Developing Response To Chord Progression

  ‘Tracking’ introduces a new pedagogical dimension to the activities that contribute to the Harmony Signing method. Its purpose is to...

• The Octatonic Scale

  The octatonic scale began to appear in music from Russia and Eastern Europe as folk-inspired chromatic exploration defined stylistic innovations....

• The Infinity Spiral Gesture

  The ‘infinity spiral’ gesture is a vital resouce for developing listening, exchanging pitches within a chord, and preparing to cope...

• The Gestures For Moving Up A Tone Or Semitone Without Modulation

  Modulation has been introduced to the practice of Harmony Signing principally through signs that initiate movement round the circle of...

• The Full Chromatic Scale Employed In Harmony Signing

  Quite early in the development of Harmony Signing with members of a children’s choir, it became apparent that limiting the...

• The Diminished Triads And Their Role In Modulation

  The unusual power of the diminished triads emerged earlier in the history of music than the role they eventually played...

• The Chord Of The Flattened 7th And Its Potential

  The chord on the flattened 7th occurs in folk music such as sea shanties, and has assumed an idiomatic role...

• Leading Two Part Music With KodáLy Signs

  In addition to signing chord progressions founded on the three positions for the Primary Triads, and to employing the right...

• Inverting The Primary Triads

  The signs for altering the inversions of the Primary Triads provide a natural expansion of the nine-fold initial framework for...

• Handedness And Gestural Communication

  It is appropriate to add a brief comment on the relationship, encountered over a considerable period of time and in...

• Adjusting Notes Within Chords

  Harmony Signing’s principal purpose is to sign specific, stable chords in progressions. Nevertheless, participants are often attracted to the possibility...

• Adding Bass Lines And Getting Into Four Harmonic Parts

  Participants in and observers of Harmony Signing have sometimes remarked that, to their ears, the method lacks clarity in not...

• Access To The Circle Of Fifths

  This section is aimed at Harmony Signing practitioners who have already worked with the content of Tonicising, The chord of...

• Tonicising

  The ‘tonicising’ sign plays an essential role in defining what chord should sound in participants’ subsequent response to the signing...

• The Minor Mode

  The initial experience of Harmony Signing, both in its melodic employment of Kodaly hand-signs and in its foundational positions for...

• Dominant Sevenths

  Dominant seventh chords exist in nature, since the seventh partial of the harmonic series clearly sounds out the pitch that...

No resources match your search.