Ioannis
Fulias, “A brief
speculation about the principles that rule the chordal progressions”, Polyphonia 3, Athens 2003, p. 106-118.
This
paper constitutes a small-size examination of the basic principles that rule
the chordal progressions in the frame of the tonal system. In fact, it is an
epitome of the subject of Harmony, and at the same time an indirect suggestion
for the renewal of the superannuated subject-matter and practice that is still
followed in the tuition of the homonymous class in the Greek conservatories. Several
matters are under investigation, including the connection of the main
scale-degrees, the formation of a complete cadential progression, the
various types of cadences, the functions of the secondary scale-degrees, the
circles of chordal progressions, the phenomenon of the embedded sequence, as
well as the distinction between tonicization and modulation.
© Ioannis Fulias