Harmony Dissonance Control: Ulehla Chord Tension Level and Hindemith Chord Groups

In her book on contemporary harmony Ludmila Ulehla discusses dissonance control and proposes a chord tension level scheme. This tutorial presents chord structure examples for all 9 tension levels and a mapping on the 6 Hindemith chord groups. Tension control is demonstrated in Schillinger diatonic and symmetric harmony chord progressions, considering aspects such as root movement, tension curve, voice leading and dissonant chordal function handling. Two of these progressions are used to develop musical composition examples: a rock synthesizer texture with lead soprano saxophone and an orchestral suspense cue.

Contents:
00:00 What this video is about
00:30 Section 1. Introduction
00:59 Section 2. Fundamentals. Ulehla chord tension level, Hindemith chord groups
02:56 General observations
04:43 UTL1. Major/minor triads and their inversions
05:30 UTL2. Minor 7th chords, extensions and inversions
06:28 UTL3. Major 7th chords, extensions and inversions
07:26 UTL4. Concordant chords, many M2, p4, p5, m7, M9 intervals
10:06 UTL5. Special chords, diminished triad, augmented triad, whole-tone without tritone
11:20 UTL6. Dominant 7th chords, extensions and inversions
13:10 UTL7. Diminished 7th, extended and altered dominant 7th
14:48 UTL8. Discordant without tritone, many m2, M7, m9
16:23 UTL9. Discordant with tritone, polychords, clusters
17:51 Section 3. Chord progressions
18:22 Progression example 1, diatonic harmony, low-to-medium UTL, 4-part
19:34 Progression example 2, diatonic-symmetric harmony, medium UTL, 4-part
21:09 Progression example 3, symmetric harmony, R2i, medium-to-high UTL, 4+1 part
22:13 Progression example 4, diat-sym harmony, medium-to-high UTL, 5-part
23:47 Progression example 5. Symmetric harmony, R3i, increasing UTL, 6-part
25:04 Section 4. Example compositions
25:09 Composition example 1, diat-sym harmony, waltz, synthesizer-jazzrock idiom, sax solo
26:29 Composition example 2, symmetric harmony R3i, 4/4, orchestral suspense cue
28:01 Summary and conclusion

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