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Romantic Harmony 101
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Romantic Harmony 101

You'll want to add this course to your Chopin Liszt!
Created byJosh Cook
Last updated 11/2024
English
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What you'll learn

  • Study the harmonic tricks used by Chopin, Liszt, Shumann, Tchaikovsky, and so many other great Romantic composers
  • Understand the unique colors of Romantic harmony
  • Expand your bag of harmonic tricks as a composer/improviser
  • Learn harmonic tricks that are relatively untapped by others in the music industry
  • Finally understand how to use diminished harmony
  • Explore other concepts like pedal tones and floating I/i chords
  • Learn how to think outside of the box harmonically

Course content

2 sections • 17 lectures • 2h 0m total length

  • About the Romantic Era5:49

    Explore the romantic era (1820–1900) with its lush harmony and emphasis on emotion. Learn how Chopin, Liszt, Brahms, and others expanded harmony through ornamentation, color, and melodic separation.

  • Minor 7 Flat 512:11

    Let's analyze the primary sound of the Romantic era.

  • Minor 6th Chords6:31

    One of my personal favorite chords that helps any progression sound more romantic.

  • Major 6th Chords7:18
  • Minor 7 Flat 5 (Second Inversion)4:45

    A beautifully complex chord that is a constant "go-to" within my Romantic influenced compositions.

  • Floating I/i Chords3:15

    I/i Chords needen't always sound resolved.  Throw the third or fifth in the bass and you get the sense that the chord still wants to progress somewhere else.

  • Pedal Tones5:14

    This technique is great for building harmonic tension.

  • Diminished Harmony15:50

    The longest and most complex lecture within this course, and with good reason!

  • Coloring Major8:14

    Here are some great suggestions for coloring your major chords.

  • Coloring Minor9:21

    Here are some great suggestions for coloring your minor chords.

  • Coloring Dominant 7th12:24

    Here are some great suggestions for coloring your dominant 7th chords.

  • V7sus7:54
  • Harmonic Clusters7:00

    Here are some approaching for condensing your chords.

  • Creative Harmonies4:40

    Experiment with non-diatonic chord progressions to create shifts beyond the key. Change chord quality within the key or borrow notes from outside to explore romantic era harmony.

  • Open-voiced Chords6:26

    Here's an approach for turning your chords into lush left-hand brush strokes.

Requirements

  • It's recommended that you first take my courses on 'Chords and Chord Progressions' 101-301
  • You should have a good understanding of how chords progressions are notated in Western music
  • Knowing your notes and basic major/minor chords on the piano are a MUST

Description

If you're looking to add intrigue, mystery, and romance to your harmonic language, look no further!

This course is intended to help musicians better understand the fundamentals of Romantic Harmony. 
If you're already comfortable working with chord progressions, and want to further expand your progressions so that they are more complex and nuanced, then this course is for you!

The works of Chopin, Liszt, Shumann, Schubert, Rachmoninoff, Tchaikovsky and so many other great Romantic composers have given us plenty of advanced harmonic concepts to study.  This course will take the fundamental ideas that are most common between these composers and offer them in such a way that you can easily understand how to approach Romantic harmony. 

While at this stage we are not analyzing Romantic pieces specifically (as this is more advanced and will be covered within a future course), we simply start with the unique chords that are most commonly used within the Romantic era.  Chord progressions using these chords will be illustrated, and other concepts such as pedal tones and chord voicings will be taught to tie the concepts together.

This course is not ONLY for musicians looking to compose Romantic pieces.  I've personally used these harmonic tricks within hip-hop and EDM productions, as well as plenty of orchestral scores.  Once you know how these chords and progressions sound, you can use them as you see fit when you are trying to evoke the inquisitive moods of Romantic music.


So if you're looking to take your chords and progressions to the next level and learn the tricks of Chopin and so many other great musicians, then jump into the first class where we hit the ground running with studying the iconic minor 7 flat 5 chord.   

I'll catch you in the first class!

Who this course is for:

  • Composers looking to tap into the harmonic sound of the Romantic era
  • Improvisers looking to expand their readily available ideas
  • Classical musicians that wish to know what happened to harmony AFTER the Classical era
  • Music producers hoping to learn new harmonic tricks for their electronic/hip-hop productions
  • Orchestrators that want to explore new harmonic ideas for their scores

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