REQ: Film Music Notes Action-Music Harmony 1 Octatonic Scales

Lesson 1 – Octatonic Harmonies
Octatonic Scales
Possible Chords
Traditional Chords from Octatonic Scales
Major Chords
Minor Chords
The Alpha Chord and Its Dissonant Subsets
Overview
Large Subset Chords – 5 or 6 notes
Major and Minor Subset Chords – with one dissonance
Atonal Subset Chords – 3 notes

Lesson 2 – Drawing Octatonic Materials Out
Octatonic Melodies
The Whole-Tone Octatonic Mode
The (0134) Chord
Connective Scale Runs
Dyads Composed of 3rds
Drawing Out Octatonic Harmony
Repeated Chord with Octatonic Melody
Transposed Chord with Octatonic Melody
Multiple Octatonic Scales
Successive Scales
Simultaneous Scales

Lesson 3 – Advanced Octatonic Techniques
Combining Octatonic Elements
Melody/Bass Intervals
Unmoving Bass
Moving Bass
Melodic Bass
Melody and Accompaniment
Freely-Written Chords
Multiple-Strand Accompaniments
Varying Octatonic Harmonies
Through Motives
Through a Common Subset
Octatonic Elements at Larger Scales
Through Returning Music
Through Returning Intervals