Pop Music Harmonization Techniques

Author: Cai Songqi
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Publish Date: 1999-11-01
Features: A practical textbook on popular music harmony, combining research, teaching, and application. Popular music, also known as pop music, is an unstoppable trend in today's global cultural landscape and an inevitable product of music's evolution to a certain stage. It is both an expression of musical form, style, and genre, and a complex cultural and social phenomenon. Compared to traditional harmony, the writing techniques of popular music harmony have both unique characteristics and compatible aspects. This book emphasizes the distinctive features of popular music harmony in its writing, dedicating significant effort to theoretical explanations, chart design, and score analysis. As for techniques compatible with traditional harmony, such as modulation, which is an important aspect, they are unfortunately omitted due to space constraints. Readers are referred to general harmony textbooks for further study.