Hi,
I think this question is extreme a big challenge to you all, but is very
urgent for me.
I can't go to New England Conservatory, because I was forced by the two
unabled deans to learn the piano when entering my local conservatory. This
stopped me from learning composition, so I have no formal piece to submit. I
have not finish the harmony course. Now I want to learn it with my original
composition teacher. I want to do the exercises myself, without talking to my
mother to transcribe the results. Most of Chinese composition teachers accept a
harmony textbook published in 1940s or 1950s by the pre Soviet Union, thus the
Sbosobin edition. This edition uses a very distinctive chord naming
system--functional chord name system. For example, the tonic major triad is
written as T, subtonic triad is S, and dominant is D. Chords share two notes of
both T and S or D and T are prefixed by two function letters and then the root
step and optional Arabic numbers. The convention is as follows:
(the plus and minus are optional, above the chord name letter or the number (if
it exists))
C major functional chart
Natural chords:
three major triads
<f a c'> <c' a' g'> <g' b' d''>
S T D
vice triads
<d f a> <a c' e'> <e' g' b'> <b' d'' f''>
SII TSII DTIIi DVII-
most unstable most stable most unstable
Other chords:
<c' e' gis'>
T+
Invertions
<e' g' c''>
T6
<g' c'' e''> % common
T6
4
<g' c'' e''> % at cadence
K6
4
<g b d' f'> <b d' f' g'> ...
D7 D6
5
<b d' f' a'> <b d' f' aes'>
DVII7- dVII7--
<g b d' f' a'>
D9
<g b f' e'>
D13
7
The must common out-of-tonality chords (Dominant's dominant):
<d' fis' a' c''>
DD7
<fis' a' c'' e''>
DDVII7-
<fis' aes' c'' ees''> or <fis' aes' c'' dis''>
b3DDVII7--
<aes' c'' d'' fis''> <aes' c'' ees'' fis''>
b5DD4 b3DDVII6--
3 5
Other altered chords:
\relative c' { <g des' f b dis> }
b5#5D7
\relative c { <f des' aes' des> }
b1SII6
or SN6 or N6
Sometimes the invertion comes immediately after the origin, the prefix is
omitted:
\relative c { <c g e' c'> <e c' g' c> }
T 6
When leaving tonality (a Chinese call, shown below, you'll know what it
means), an arrow is shown:
\relative c { <c g' e' c'> <cis g' e' bes'> <d f d' a'> }
T DVII7- arrow SII
Is there a way to write these chord names? Must I have to use markup
function? That's too complicated!
Regards
Haipeng
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