Re: Harmony Books - Wich one?
Ricardo Quintas ( quintas@ip.pt )
Tue, 08 Jul 1997 23:19:28 +0200
At 09:36 07-07-1997 PDT, you wrote:
>>>>muchan said:
> > my teacher of music, who was
> > actually the avangardest jazz musician, recomended me to read
> > Arnold Shoenberg's book on harmonical theory.
>
>If we can recommend "legit" harmony books (I actually dislike that
>term; jazz is just as legitimate a musical genre as fugues and sonatas)
>then I'll chime in with a recommendation for Walter Piston's "Harmony".
>I used it in college and it was dense but thorough, and packed with
>examples. It will certainly give a dedicated reader a good grounding in
>harmony basics: tonal centers, dominants, modulation, extended chords
>and the like.
>
>I don't think my edition even mentions the word "jazz"
>anywhere, so I had remained quiet, but it covers traditional Western
>common-practice harmony from well before Bach to well after Stravinsky.
>Berry-bob sez check it out.
>
>
> --berry
>
>Berry Kercheval :: kerch@parc.xerox.com :: Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
Thanxs Berry!
Ricardo Diniz Quintas ;-)
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