Theory of Harmony

By Arnold Schoenberg, Roy E. Carter (translator),

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There is a new critical foreword by Walter Frisch, H. Harold Gumm/Harry and Albert von Tilzer Professor of Music at Columbia University, that expands this centennial edition. Frisch puts Schoenberg's masterpiece into historical and ideological context, delineating the connections between music, theory, art, science, and architecture in turn-of-the century Austro-German…


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After learning counterpoint from the greatest, why not learn harmony from the genius who took it so far it unraveled? Before diving headfirst into atonality (a mistake), Schoenberg was a master of Harmony (with a capital H!), and this book is filled with nuggets of wisdom that I gobbled up hungrily, albeit in small bites because it’s so dense and profound. 

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