The New Harmony Book

Publisher: AMA Verlag
A Musical Workbook for Classical, Rock, Pop and Jazz Music

The standard musical textbook for every musician. Focusses on harmonic structures, scales and modes. Suitable for the classroom or self-study.

Part I: The Tonal System
Chapter 1: An introduction to notation
Chapter 2: The phenomenon of the harmonic series - the basis of harmony

Part II: The Rudiments of Harmony
Chapter 3: The intervals
Chapter 4: The triads
Chapter 5: Four-note chords and their extensions
Chapter 6: The lonian system
Chapter 7: The circle of fifths
Chapter 8: The harmonic minor scale
Chapter 9: The melodic minor scale
Chapter 10: A general survey of other scales
    1. The pentatonic scales
    2. The scales in the blues
    3. The symmetrical scales
    4. Composite scales
Chapter 11: The harmonic major scale

Appendix: Additional chord symbols
Tables of the scales
Answer key to the exercises