This workbook for all musicians gets down to the rudiments of music right from the start. Notation is dealt with in depth and in an easily understandable way, as are the harmonic series and the various intervals and triads as well. There are step-by-step explanations of how to use chord symbols, with the relationships of the chords to each other being demonstrated as well. In addition there is close examination of the circle of fifths and the circle of fourths, the chord-scale systems of the major scales, and the harmonic and melodic minors, as well as pentatonic scales, symmetrical scales and blues scales. Numerous illustrations and examples, exercises and solutions, commentaries and analyses make a decisive contribution to a better understanding of the rudiments of music.
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Frank Haunschild is an excellent jazz guitarist and works as a freelance performer, teacher and author. He currently teacher harmony, jazz guitar and ensemble at several universities and conservatories in Germany, including the College of Music in Cologne. He writes a column for the magazine Gitarre & Bass and is the regional coordinator for Germany for the International Association of School Jazz (IASJ).
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Pity the second part never materialised,
This review is from: Haunschild : The New Harmony Book (Paperback)
"Haunschild: The New Harmony Book" is a very valuable resource for students of music theory.
It offers a comprehensive guide to important scales, including the major, harmonic minor, melodic minor and their "modes" obtained by starting on different notes of these scales. Each mode is explained with details of what chords can be used with it, along with the unusual concept of "avoid notes" which are described as very dissonant and thus unable to be used with certain scales. There is also a useful overview of the frequency ratios of all the most important intervals from the consonant unison to the dissonant tritone. There are also a number of other scales studied in the book, such as the pentatonic and "gypsy minor". The information here, unlike that in many books on music theory, is applicable to a very good range of instruments, which makes "The New Harmony Book" of wide value for musicians. According to Haunschild, a second volume was planned with more scales and more details of how these scales can be used. It is a pity this second volume failed entirely to materialise.
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partial tone series, harmonic altered, melodic minor system, additional bass note, harmonic major scale, diatonic seventh chords, major pentatonic scale, diatonic triads, slash chords, diatonic chords, classical harmony, minor pentatonic scale, third apart, fundamental tone, altered scale, dominant scale, melodic minor scale, augmented fifth, harmonic minor scale, chord symbols, dominant seventh chord, blues scale, perfect intervals, harmonic series, composite scale New!
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In order to be able to communicate and explain musical processes between individual musicians we have to agree upon certain signs and symbols. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
partial tone series, harmonic altered, melodic minor system, additional bass note, harmonic major scale, diatonic seventh chords, major pentatonic scale, diatonic triads, slash chords, diatonic chords, classical harmony, minor pentatonic scale, third apart, fundamental tone, altered scale, dominant scale, melodic minor scale, augmented fifth, harmonic minor scale, chord symbols, dominant seventh chord, blues scale, perfect intervals, harmonic series, composite scale New!
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