Harmony books

Hi. I'm looking for some Harmony book which include exercises and examples. I haven't been able to find anything with exercises. Thanks.

This one has exercises (and answers if you get the Answer book).

http://www.musicroom.com/se/ID_No/020772/details.html

It's ok. I didn't like it too much but I think it just didn't fit with my personal style of learning.

Tonal Harmony: it's a text book but i found it at a used bookstore for $2 (good deal compared to some other places where it's sold). I think it's a pretty good book, it has exercises and corresponding answers to them. There's a workbook and CD that comes with it if you actually order it, but I don't have them. Even so, just the book has many exercises that are good. What do you mean by examples? Of what they're talking about? or what...

Tonal Harmony: it's a text book but i found it at a used bookstore for $2 (good deal compared to some other places where it's sold). I think it's a pretty good book, it has exercises and corresponding answers to them. There's a workbook and CD that comes with it if you actually order it, but I don't have them. Even so, just the book has many exercises that are good. What do you mean by examples? Of what they're talking about? or what...

Oh examples are not that necessary. I mean examples from classical repertoire - e.g. two or three bars from Beethoven 5 demonstrating the augmented sixth chord. In fact I already have a book with examples, I just don't have anything with exercises.

Tonal Harmony: it's a text book but i found it at a used bookstore for $2 (good deal compared to some other places where it's sold). I think it's a pretty good book, it has exercises and corresponding answers to them. There's a workbook and CD that comes with it if you actually order it, but I don't have them. Even so, just the book has many exercises that are good. What do you mean by examples? Of what they're talking about? or what...

I'm actually hoping to get that for Christmas :P I can't wait.

Oh yeah, Kostka's Harmony looks great. But it's waaaay too expensive. Maybe I can get it for my birthday (I want a sax for Xmas already).

A great and invaluable resource is Schoenberg's Structural Functions of Harmony. It's very inexpensive at Amazon.com!

A great and invaluable resource is Schoenberg's Structural Functions of Harmony. It's very inexpensive at Amazon.com!

I have his Theory of Harmony and it is a really thorough insight I must admit. So perhaps I'll give it a try.:)

I might write a Harmony book after the Concert Band piece I've written. I'm thoroughly pleased with how my tonal harmonic language is coming out in this one.

I have the Kostka and Payne Tonal Harmony text. It's a text book though, and I really didn't find it as useful to my interests in writing. Of course, I went straight to the scores of Wagner, Brahms, and some others, then on to the scores of John Williams, Max Steiner, and so forth. My language is coming together quite well, I'd say. I'm stoked.

I think score study is far more valuable than texts, but I guess it depends on what you know. If you're learning how to write in a particular language, you need to be able to study that language from the source. So, the value in books on harmony -should- be to teach you how to study sources of harmony like music scores. Schoenberg's material on functional harmony does a far better job teaching you that than the Kostka, in my opinion.

But that's just me.

I doubt this is what you're looking for, but if you by any chance are interested in 20th century harmony, there's this book;

http://www.amazon.com/Twentieth-Century-Harmony-Creative-Aspects-Practice/dp/0393095398/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1261870851&sr=8-1

It gives you motivation to be creative (at least it does that to me), and lets you look at things at a fresh perspective (if you never studied 20th century harmony before, that is).

There's good exercises and explanations of everything but I would only recommend this book if you feel you got a solid base of classic music theory.