The Tabulator

Keyboard Harmony Pattern Generator

In the Spirit of the Obsessive Musical Tabulation of the Eighteenth Century

Features

Nearly twenty thousand examples
Modular: no correct starting point or order
Each example includes:
- Functional note coloring (blue chord roots and yellow sevenths)
- Keyboard diagrams with right-hand fingerings for closed voicings
- Movable-do solfège and note-name labels
- Longhand figured bass notation
- Voice-leading templates with Roman-numeral analysis and chord names

Bugs

Generate an example!

Choose global parameters

1. Global key:

     2. Local tonic: In Baroque music, modulations are circumscribed.
     A composition in a major key may modulate to the following six keys:



     3. Chord spacing: The upper voices of a chord may be as tightly packed as possible
     (a closed spacing), or loosely packed (an open spacing):

     4. User:

Choose a pattern type

     1. One-chord patterns that repeat in transposition
     (in parallel motion). These are good elementary exercises.

          (a) Direction:

          (b) Chord:



     2. Sequences: two-chord patterns that repeat in transposition.
     Shorthand: “-x+y” means, “the pattern’s bass note
     descends x steps, then ascends y steps.”

     3. Cycles: one-chord patterns with compact voice leading (no parallel motion).





     4. Resolutions of seventh chords in all inversions





     5. Sequences of applied dominant-seventh chords

          (a) Direction:

          (b) Transposition size:

          (c) Seventh-chord inversion:



     6. Idioms: common progressions that aren’t particularly systematic.

Bugs (091003)

C♭ and C♯ choke (incomplete example sets).

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Last modified: Sat Oct 3 03:09:08 EDT 2009