Playable BooksREADING EDITIONS
Schoenberg, Theory of Harmony in English

Arnold Schoenberg

Schoenberg, Theory of Harmony in English

Open the playable edition →
  1. Preface
  2. Preface to the Third Edition
  3. Theory or a System of Presentation?
  4. The Method of Teaching Harmony
  5. Consonance and Dissonance
  6. The Major Key and Its Diatonic Chords
  7. The Diatonic Triads
  8. Setting the Chords
  9. Connecting Primary and Secondary Triads
  10. Writing Short Chord Progressions
  11. Degree VII
  12. Inversions of triads
  13. a) THE SIXTH CHORD
  14. Parallel octaves and fifths
  15. Connecting Triads and Sixth Chords
  16. b) The Six-Four Chord
  17. Seventh chords
  18. Inversions of seventh chords
  19. Connecting seventh chords with one another
  20. The Minor Key
  21. Diatonic triads in minor
  22. Inversion of triads in minor
  23. Seventh chords and their inversions in minor
  24. Connecting Chords That Have No Harmonic Link
  25. Voice Leading and Cadences
  26. I. On Root Progressions
  27. A. In Major and Minor
  28. B. In Minor
  29. Iii. voice leading
  30. Endings and cadences
  31. Deceptive cadences
  32. The Six-Four Chord in the Cadence
  33. Freer Use of the Seventh Degree
  34. Modulation
  35. Secondary Dominants and Modal Chords
  36. Guidelines
  37. On the Diminished Seventh Chord
  38. Diminished Seventh Chord Guidelines
  39. Meter and Harmony
  40. Modulation Continued
  41. Up Three or Four Fifths
  42. Down Three or Four Fifths
  43. Relations to the Minor Subdominant
  44. Guidelines
  45. At the Boundaries of the Key
  46. The Augmented Triad
  47. Augmented Sixth and Vagrant Chords
  48. Modulation through Intermediate Keys
  49. Fifth and Sixth Circles of Fifths
  50. Chorale Harmonization
  51. Closes
  52. “Nonharmonic” Notes
  53. Suspensions and Other Nonharmonic Tones
  54. Some Remarks on Ninth Chords
  55. 1. Altered Chords
  56. 2. Shortened Progressions
  57. 3. Combining Triads and Seventh Chords
  58. 4. More Chord Possibilities
  59. 5. A Few More Modulation Schemes
  60. 6. A Few More Small Matters
  61. 7. On Floating and Suspended Tonality
  62. 8. Chromaticism and Tonality
  63. Whole-Tone Scales and Chords
  64. Chords Built in Fourths
  65. Evaluating Complex Chords
  66. Subject index