PLEASE. What things come under HARMONY? I've got my AS exam soon , and still don't understand what features come under harmony, and how they are different to tonality.......

Thankyou, thankyou, thankyou...

I've just been revising that for my As! Harmony, from my notes is/ are things like pedal notes, diminished and chromatic chords, 7ths + 9ths and parallel (sp?) 5ths. Tonality is more about what key it starts in and modulates to, whether the modulations are related, whether its major, minor, tonal or atonal etc but I think you can still talk about chromaticism coz thats similar to key isn't it??
If anyone else has any ideas it wuld be helpful!
Gud luck!!! Is your exam on the 8th?
elmo
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Harmony is what you get when you have more than one note sounding at a time.

I just took gcse last week but my teacher gave us a huge lecture in our last lesson about the difference between harmony and tonality:
Basically, tonality is just whether something is major, minor, modal or atonal, and whether it modulates.
Harmony is consonant or dissonant.
Harmony is the actual chords used , for example, are the chords the three primary chords or are secondary chords used? Is the harmony rich with lots of added chromatic notes and full chords, or very simple, maybe just the root of each chord used?

I hope that helps but maybe someone who is taking AS should help too- as my teacher kept saying- this is very simple, it's only gcse!

You mind find this useful.

cressida - what an EXCELLENT website - haven't got time at the moment to do the excercises but will find time to do so soon.
Thank you.