1st Edition

Harmony at the Piano Using Keyboard Harmony to Learn Advanced Piano Music

By Ken Johansen Copyright 2024
228 Pages 308 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

228 Pages 308 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

228 Pages 308 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Harmony at the Piano adapts the traditional study of keyboard harmony to the practical needs of modern piano students, using innovative exercises to help students practice their repertoire more deliberately, consciously, and creatively. The author introduces the essential elements of harmony through extensive examples from real piano music. Rooted in the understanding that the language of... Read more

1. Root Position Triads  2. First Inversion Triads  3. Sequences with Triads  4. Embellishing Tones  5. Second Inversion Triads  6. The Dominant 7th Chord in Root Position  7. Inversions of the Dominant 7th Chord  8. Secondary Dominant Chords  9. Diatonic Modulation  10. The Supertonic 7th Chord  11. Sequences with 7th Chords  12. The Leading Tone 7th Chord in Minor  13. Secondary Diminished Chords  14. The Leading Tone 7th Chord in Major  15. The Neapolitan 6th Chord  16. Augmented 6th Chords  17. Chromatic Voice-Leading Techniques

Biography

Ken Johansen is Associate Professor of Keyboard Studies at the Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University, where he has taught since 2002. He is a co-inventor of the piano sight-reading app Read Ahead, and the creator of From the Ground Up, a series of study editions published on Practising the Piano Online Academy. He holds degrees in piano performance from Peabody and the University of North Texas, and studied harmony and musicianship in Paris with Narcis Bonet.

"Ken Johansen's teaching has provided a marvelous benefit to a great number of my piano students over the years. Harmony at the Piano is a truly valuable work which will help younger as well as the most advanced musicians to reach a higher understanding of our art."

Benjamin Pasternack, Professor, Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University 

"I think this is a superb textbook; it combines clear, practical and helpful information and directions for the students with a deep artistic sensibility—a rare combination, especially for a textbook. I appreciate how the author emphasizes the link between keyboard harmony and repertoire, and I especially like the advice for how to use this material for memorizing repertoire."

Roger Graybill, New England Conservatory