On Modern And Contemporary Teaching Of Harmony

Harmony theory is one of the required courses in the theory of composition technology, After learning the traditional harmonic language, the students should also learn the harmony technique in the early twentieth Century,The preparation for the study of modern music in twentieth Century.Therefore, modern harmony teaching, can expand students horizons, and guide students to master harmony of logic, students not only have a solid foundation of traditional harmony, and on the basis of the traditional dare to create, in practice, rational to follow. Enable students to understand modern music is how to inherit the tradition, and the introduction of new harmonic technique.In modern music, the composer uses a variety of different structure of chord, and the phase difference between the traditional chord structure, as in Prokofiev's piano pieces, use the change after three chords, seven chords, nine chords, plus chord, chord overlap, three non overlapping structure chord and so on. But Prokofiev's Piano pieces, with three degree overlay as the foundation, established some three non overlapping structure. The flexible chord chord structure, the vertical structure of the various types of chords, provides more possibilities for the chord choice. The variety of chord structure in the first part of the content of Prokofiev piano pieces used in collated and summarized.In modern harmonic language, many traditional harmony in harmony still exist. Such as Prokofiev's piano pieces of the harmony, the use of the traditional cadence, ostinato, parallel, use of second degree, at the same level change, chromaticism and so on, composer in the traditional harmony based on changes, joined the different from traditional music harmony logic, so that his piano pieces formed its own unique music style, and resonate with other music schools in the twentieth century, and even to twentieth century half leaf of music creation produced positive effect.The creation of Prokofiev insisted on rigorous classical style, and his language is not only a traditional harmony function, mode characteristics, and further deepen the application, weakening the mode and function of harmony thought reflected in his traditional inheritance and further innovative features in the tradition of music writing techniques at the same time, Prokofiev the creation of logic and modern music works in twentieth Century of the creative thinking has profound origin, it can be said that modern composer creation is the bud of modern music in the late twentieth Century and the direct impact of driving and the direction of the evolution, the main trend of representing and acoustic changes. The traditional inheritance and the future it is also where we inspire modern harmony teaching significance.The harmonic techniques in Prokofiev's piano pieces as the breakthrough point, from the chord structure, harmony angle and traditional harmony differentiated and compared, so as to find some rules of modern harmony, to enable students to understand the modern harmony is the continuation of the traditional harmony, at the same time, it is the rudiment of the modern music and excessive, for the teaching of modern harmony provides comparison and reference.