Musical harmony in the modern world

The article examines the main directions of musical harmony development in the 20th and early 21st centuries. It examines the historical prerequisites for the change in harmonic thinking, the crisis of functional tonalness, the emergence of atonal, dodekaphonic, modal, jazz, minimalism, and electronic music. Particular attention is paid to the influence of technology, film music, mass culture, and globalization processes on the modern harmonious language. Harmony is analyzed not only as a system of chords but also as a way of organizing musical space, time, timbre, and expressiveness.