In China's traditional music, there is no precedent for any region or nation to use harmony. ()

In China's traditional music, there is no precedent or mistake for any region or nation to use harmony.

I. Introduction to Harmony

Harmony is a sound combination formed by two or more different sounds sounding at the same time according to certain rules. It includes: chord, which is the basic material of harmony, is composed of three or more different sounds by three-dimensional superposition or other methods, and is the longitudinal structure of harmony. Harmonic progression refers to the continuous connection of chords and the lateral movement of harmony.

Harmony has obvious strong, light, thick and thin color effects; It also has the functions of forming clauses, dividing paragraphs and ending music. Harmony is the pitch organization form of multi-part music and one of the basic means of music expression. As far as the general concept of composition theory is concerned, harmony is a technical category corresponding to counterpoint (commonly known as polyphony).

Second, the function of harmony

The function of harmony refers to the stable or unstable function of each chord in tonality, their movement and tendency characteristics, and their logical relationship. The function of harmony is closely related to tonality. Without tonality or tonality, harmony loses its functional meaning.

Harmony in China s Music Works;

1, Introduction

In China's professional music creation, the application of harmony began at the beginning of the 20th century, and European harmony methods in major and minor were initially adopted. Because the melody is mostly pentatonic, how to adapt harmony to the melody style has become a subject that China composers have been exploring in practice.

In the early days, most of the harmonies were based on major and minor harmonies, and methods such as strengthening the role of minor chords, combining major triad with sixth tones, and paying attention to the pentatonic scale of the parts (especially the two external parts) were adopted. In the 1920s, when Zhao Yuanren accompanied his songs, he paid attention to trying Chinese harmony.

Step 2 explore

In the mid-1930s, due to the influence of national traditional music and folk music, the national style of music got further attention, and there were more explorations and experiments on harmony. For example, some harmony methods of European national music school and impressionism (such as Debussy) were used for reference, the application of natural mode harmony was increased, and the method of adding or changing sounds was adopted on the basis of triad.