ABC of Harmony Book C ( Second Edition )

ABC of Harmony Book C ( Second Edition ) The ABC of Harmony Series

by Roy Wilkinson

The final text-book in the ABC of Harmony series completes the vocabulary of chords needed for this project. Secondary sevenths, diminished sevenths, the Neapolitan and augmented sixth chords and the chromatic supertonic chord together with other aspects of the diatonic and chromatic musical language are simply and concisely explained. Exercises on the content of each chapter are included. Their purpose is not so much to provide quantities of exercises for harmonisation - although there are such exercises. Rather it is to make the student familiar with each chord through writing it, and to build up confidence of chord recognition through finding examples in the many musical extracts provided. The Appendix contains a section on Bach's chorale style, with several chorales provided for study purposes. There is also an introductory approach to the instrumental style of Bach, Corelli and other early 18th century composers, together with illustrative material. A section on figured bass updates this topic from the simpler introduction in Book A.