[sdiy] [Slightly OT] Harmony Book

[Aaron Lanterman]

On Apr 10, 2010, at 10:55 AM, Alexander Chayka wrote:

> I fully recommend 'Harmony and Voice Leading' by Aldwell and Schachter. I spent a couple weeks on choosing the book and it was well worth it. I forget which schools use it but I a basically went on a
> bunch of top university Theory 1 & 2 class pages and looked up review & compared books. The 3rd edition is major $$ so you may want to get the 2nd Ed.

The intro year music theory courses at Wash U used it. Although, the first part of the first semester course was actually Gregorian chant - they talked about melodic structure before they ever talked about harmony. It was a weird and interesting approach, kind of like the Computer Science departments that used Scheme (a Lisp dialect) in their intro courses for a while (that seems to have fallen out of favor).

- Aaron