There’s Even More to Playing the Piano

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Chapter 5 - Harmonisation

To harmonise a melody is to add another single melodic line – resulting in harmony - or to add chords. Here is a melody. Here is the same melody harmonised in parallel thirds. Here, the right-hand plays the original melody; the left-hand has an independent melody (see Chapter 11). Here, the right-hand has the original melody; the left-hand has chords. When we pianists talk about harmonisation, we are often referring to this last type of harmonisation – adding chords...

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