Things to do with Harmony Space
Improvise
Compose
Analyse
Improve intuitive understanding of harmony
Simple approaches to the formal theory of harmony
Activities with learners and children
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Things to do in more detail
1 Learn basics of harmony theory.
2 Activities for solo beginners to learn to play harmonic sequences.
3 Activities for groups of beginners to learn to play harmonic sequences: with harmony space this can be decomposed in non-standard ways to help anyone take part.
4 Include those with physical disabilities as first-class participants in the group playing of harmony.
5 Work out and submit chord sequences for pieces not yet in the Choco online library of 20,000 sequences.
6 Activities for beginners to work out visually the key(s) or mode(s) of chord sequence.
7 Allowing beginners to carry out functional (roman numeral) harmonic analysis visually.
8 Harmonically analyse modal material mislabeled as major/minor.
9 Represent jazz standards to help remember and feel changes for jazz improvisors using visual version of Lego theory of jazz harmony.
10 Gain insights into how chord sequences work by finding and graphing multiple spatial views.
11 Use insights gained into existing chord sequences to compose new variant chord sequences – including with particular emotional or musical shapes.
12 Using personally favourite pieces to navigate a knowledge graph of high-level harmonic concepts, and use musical games to consolidate understanding of knowledge gained.