The Seven Harmonies of Music: a Field Guide
By Paul William Bennett
Booklet (80pp.) + computer CD (150 multimedia examples) $ 10.00 (NC residents add $0.68) If : - you are learning guitar chords but don't know what chords to play and when to play them during a song - you play another chord instrument: piano, keyboard, harp, accordion - you just want to learn how music works in an easy and simple way ...you will find this to be a unique and indispensible tool. |
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This is not your grandfather's music theory book. Much different from a traditional theory book or class: it is an experiential journey through the workings of harmony. Learning how music works need not involve a lot of complex terms, symbols and principles. The book takes the approach that the essence of how music works is in how chords relate to each other. Tonal music uses seven simple chords, which we will call harmonies, plus a few others related to them, and you can learn to hear them by listening to short examples, with integrated on-screen display on your computer. The examples are taken from the children's, pop, country and classical genres, and are similar to the ones on the Examples page of this site. No prior formal musical knowledge is necessary. Note for guitarists: this booklet does not teach guitar chord fingering, but in conjunction with the CD examples, does teach you how to know what chord to play. Table of Contents 
Illustration from Chapter 4 of "Seven Harmonies" |
The CD with example clips will work with any standard PC or Mac. It is useable with most recent browsers.
If your browser displays the examples on this site correctly, this CD will work with it.
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