Innovations in pitch: extended harmony, chromaticism, atonality and new scale forms

What this note covers

1. Innovation in pitch: the big picture
2. Extended harmony: added-note, extended and parallel chords
3. Dissonance, chromaticism and tone clusters
4. Modes, pentatonic, whole-tone and non-Western scales
5. Atonality and the tone row
6. Phrasing, pitch patterns and melodic ostinato as innovation
7. Evaluating pitch innovation in an essay

7 sections · 10 key terms & formulas · 6 common mistakes