Hello and welcome. In this episode, I will be
telling you what quartal Harmony is and how you can use it in
your music. I will also be looking at the
melody harmonization process with these chords and explore
some ideas for it. Let's get started.
Cuarto, or even quintal Harmony is a term that refers to chords
built by stacking fourths. Or fifths.
These chords don't need to have these intervals exclusively as
they can be considered. As such as long as these
intervals predominate, these cards can also be inverted and
this is actually one of the ways in which you can prevent
harmonic monotony caused by the fixed interval position of
stacked Force. For instance, if you have this
chord progression in fourths, you can either maintain it.
It's fixed position or you can rearrange the nodes in a way
that favors a better voice leading movement.
This only means that we are trying that each note that goes
from one car to the next smoothly.
Moves by the smallest interval possible.
Cuartel cards can be very ambiguous in the sense that we
can get the proper field for the Route more often than not, this
ambiguity is introduced by the lack of the third in relation to
the root of that Court, meaning that you are free to use major
or minor modes on top of these chords.
And because there is no clear route.
These chords don't have an impetus to resolve to any other
particular court to show you this.
I will be using this cord in fourth and then change the base.
Note, what happened is that the existence of a bass note puts
the rest of the chord tones in the context of that base notes.
So, It's time, we change it it implies different, chords all
together apart from the sound of the cars themselves.
This ambiguity is one of the reasons why these are so
appealing to Modern composers. It's all very vague harmonically
and the ability of turning vagueness into something is a
very useful resource. Another thing you can do is to
have your cords built in thirds and then rearrange them in
fourth intervals. Let's say you have a chord
progression In thirds like this one.
Now, you can arrange it in fourths.
And you can change it even further by experimenting with
different bass notes. This is a nice way of
repurposing. An existing chord progression in
your music because it suggests different cards.
You can even switch it back to chords in thirds.
As for chord progressions, the approach is the same.
As chords in thirds, you can consider a base or root movement
and stack fourths on top of that route.
When you go about harmonizing a Melody, the procedure is also
the same now considering that you want to use quartal Harmony,
which is what we have been talking about.
You will try to match the chord tones to the melody, but this is
not mandatory or even desirable at times, it's a guideline to
get you started. Here are some ways you could
approach the harmonization process by matching the malady
with tones of the cord, you choose.
Are after the fact you can use chord inversions for smoother,
Baseline transitions. Or by first adding a base
movement to the melody and then harmonize it.
The cards, ambiguity will work in your favor.
And whilst experimenting, you may end up with exciting results
that will fool even more. Your creative juices.
I hope that this approach to using quartal Harmony inspires
you to make more music. I'll see you on the next
episode. Happy composing.