Romantic Harmony

How would I go about learning romantic harmony like Chopin or Tchaikovsky?

Edited Sunday at 05:05 AM2 days by Colenbacher

Listen more, analyze more, find some good harmony books on it!

Henry

16 hours ago, Colenbacher said:

How would I go about learning romantic harmony like Chopin or Tchaikovsky?

What is your skill level?

Thank you!

3 minutes ago, Kvothe said:

What is your skill level?

I am an intermediate composer

33 minutes ago, Colenbacher said:

I am an intermediate comp

33 minutes ago, Colenbacher said:

I am an intermediate composer

No. I meant your skill level at playing an instrument.

19th century music falls into CPE. Thus, depending what you can play that would be first stop, my friend. :)

Just now, Kvothe said:

No. I meant your skill level at playing an instrument.

Ahh, sorry! I am an advanced oboe player!

2 minutes ago, Colenbacher said:

Ahh, sorry! I am an advanced oboe player!

Ah.

Back to @Henry Ng Tsz Kiu point! I would not start with Chopin. Start with Bach.

1 minute ago, Kvothe said:

Ah.

Back to @Henry Ng Tsz Kiu point! I would not start with Chopin. Start with Bach.

Okay, thank you!

2 minutes ago, Kvothe said:

Back to @Henry Ng Tsz Kiu point! I would not start with Chopin. Start with Bach.

Where did Henry say that?

40 minutes ago, PeterthePapercomPoser said:

Where did Henry say that?

Maybe in my dream and @Kvothe divined it 😅

@Henry Ng Tsz Kiu I was referring to the point that harmony books, listening, and score study would help him

I’m in a similar position, are there any specific books you’d recommend?

4 hours ago, piano1324 said:

I’m in a similar position, are there any specific books you’d recommend?

Romantic harmony is a subset of function harmony. Depending on your budget, I can recommend several books.

I’m going to be reading EBooks anyway but for now we can say the budget is 70$

7 hours ago, piano1324 said:

I’m going to be reading EBooks anyway but for now we can say the budget is 70$

Guide to the Practical Study of Harmony (Dover Books On Music: Analysis): Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyitch: 9780486442723: Amazon.com: Books

Modulation (Dover Books On Music: Analysis): Reger, Max: 9780486457321: Amazon.com: Books

Schoenberg has two: Theory of Harmony and Structures of tonal harmony

Harmony and voice leading and tonal harmony: both are used at the undergraduate level.

Theory and Analysis, the musician guide is also used too.

Remember books can take so far. You have look at examples and analyze works.

Composers: Beethoven, Schubert, Schuman, Chopin, ect. All of these learned from those before composers before them. Beethoven learned from Haydn and Crenzy. Crezny who taught listz!