[sdiy] [Slightly OT] Harmony Book

[Alexander Chayka]

Yes, it an interestingly odd way of doing things. It starts off
straight into scales & tones moves to intervals then to rhythm & meter
then triads & 7th chords and ends part 1 (I guess what could be the
'intro to theory' part) with four part writing. But when I read
through the first part of it, it really got me excited because it got
me thinking about music in a different way, which is a lot more
interesting and better (in my opinion) than the little bits of theory
I learned in the past.

Also, I have a copy of the chapter examples that is suppose to come
with the CD if anyone needs it.

-Alex

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 10:00 PM, Aaron Lanterman
<lanterma at ece.gatech.edu> wrote:
> 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
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