Harmony Builder

Piccinesco wrote:

It's interesting and certainly useful, but in this way (I think) there is the risk that someone might become complacent since the software

reports errors and the person using it does not look for the same ones themselves.

Errors in what sense?

This is explained in the video: voice leading errors, hidden octaves and fifths (I prefer, as I was taught, and it is also clearer at least for me as a

definition, to define them as relationships between fifths and octaves), unisons not permitted, excessive leaps etc..

Well,....having forgotten the basics of the subject a long time ago, this software corrector might be useful.

Thanks for the news!

Perhaps it is more useful in a complementary harmony course (old manner) than for an aspiring composer... also because every reported error must be stylistically contextualized.

Piccinesco wrote:

hidden octaves and fifths

I have bad news for you, they don't exist... it's just an
invention of some theorists

How beautiful! But where can it be downloaded?

Could it be this?

http://www.harmonybuilder.com/index_it.html

I noticed that there is a 30-day valid trial version available

Wow it's him! 21 days the demo version!

Frank wrote:

I have bad news, they don't exist... it's just an
invention of some theorists

I am only seeing these replies now.

Franck, unfortunately, it has been months since I last heard from the composition teacher, damn it, it is clear that he is so busy that

he cannot, and rightly so if he has a free moment, I understand why he doesn't feel like responding.

I had sent him an exercise 3/4 months ago I think, but it has been more than 2 years since we have practically spoken; the last time he

called me was right at the beginning of this year.

I brought this up because I have always liked the definition he provided me regarding hidden 5ths and 8ths—that is, relationships—and by defining exactly

the difference between these intervals, which form in certain situations from successions, he cleared up some doubts that I had developed

years ago while reading harmony treatises, where sometimes a single term that "generalizes" a bit, or doesn't specify things as clearly as one would like,

is enough, and doubts turn into insecurities. That is why in these cases the intervention of a person who knows how to untangle you from the mess you "find yourself in" is essential.

I agree with Gerardo and anyone who thinks like him on this matter, because software of this type is certainly useful, but

in fact one loses an essential part of studying: the critical aspect of the student or whoever faces these issues. "If you find

the exercises corrected, how do you understand where the error is?", a bit like what happened years ago on Edumus, I don't know if you remember, a girl asked for help before a harmony exam

I believe; several people wrote to her, including myself, saying that if her friends were truly friends (since she had brought them into it by saying that a true friend

would lend a hand by solving the exercises precisely, so at least I remember what she meant) they would tell her that was not the way to approach an exam, especially

because if they had asked her, even years later, "how do you do this thing?", what would she have answered: "wait, let me go find those who gave me the answers for the exams", and so on; that was the point.