Japanese Music Harmony: Key Fluctuation Used in J-POP, Gaming, and Anime Music

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A music harmony theory book for Japanese modern and traditional music written by Japanese music theorist. It is recommended if you are a music composer or a student interested in Japanese gaming, anime, and J-POP music.IndexChapter 1: Relative Multipolar Tonality (RMT) 1. Function 1. Tonal range covered by RMT 2. Key boundary ambiguity 3. Substitute Chords 4. Progress from substitute chords to regular chords 2. Use Relative Chords Intentionally 1. Include a change of major and minor sound 2. Use third progression like dominant - tonic 3. Expression of transience 3. Contrast in Major and Minor Sound 1. I-VI-II-V 2. Presenting the contrast 3. "Komuro Progression" 4. Bass Movement 1. Chords that are third intervals apart 2. Step progression in bass 3. Canon progression 5. Affinity with Pentatonic Scale 1. Mixture of major and minor triads 2. Pentatonic scale 3. Adding one of the common notes to determinate notes 4. Affinity with Japanese folk songs 5. Modern Japanese styleChapter 2 Dominant Multipolar Tonality (DMT) 1. Function 1. Tonal range covered by DMT 2. Change in tonal tension 3. Sentence with a main key of S 4. Sentence with a main key of D 5. Using T tonic in S or D sections 2. DMT and RMT 1. Oudou Progression 2. Third interval progression 3. Affinity to Modes 1. Review the first example from the perspective of mode 2. Lydian feeling 3. Mixolydian feeling 4. Dorian feeling 5. Phrygian feeling 6. Modes as the combination of two keys 7. Locrian mode 4. Using Two Tonal "Directions" 1. The simplest usage 2. Affinity with II-V-IChapter 3: Parallel Multipolar Tonality (PMT) 1. Function 1. Review of chord notation 2. Tonal range covered by PMT 2. Borrowing Chords 1. Borrowing from the parallel minor key 2. Borrowing from the parallel major key 3. Using Multipolar Tonality 1. Contrasting major and minor sounds 4. Inclination to African-American Music 1. What does "jazzy" mean? 5. How to Avoid Tilting to African-American Music 1. Give tonal function to borrowed chords 2. Reduce strong progress in bass 3. Avoid overuse of chromatic scales 4. The expression achieved by "subtracting" 5. Avoid collisions between the major and minor thirds 6. Cinematic Effect 1. Parallel progression with consistent chordsJapanese Music Harmony Vol. 2: —Key Fluctuation Used in J-POP, Gaming, and Anime Music—