A New Approach to Keyboard Harmony

If you want to learn how music theory and harmony map onto the piano keyboard, this book will be extremely useful. If you dislike music theory and/or technical exercises, this book won't be much fun at all. If you are easily bored, it will be very boring. If you have a music theory, math, engineer, coder, or hard science brain, this book is succinct and useful over a long period of study. I took up piano to study harmony more effectively, so this is a perfect fit.

have just started getting into it. Seems a lot higher than I am at skill wise. I suppose if I knew about the old approach, I would understand it more. Written for those who have had at least 1 year of lessons and those would be serious lessons. I am a self study, older (70 years old) student for a half year so far working with fake books and now a serious dabbling of jazz and blues, etc. looking to know how to harmonize sounds and know the rational behind it. This book has a lot of exercises that show harmony but I don't know if I will GET IT so I can do it - time and practice will tell,

A+ Although Book itself is little dated - it is still very useful

This is the perfect book for beginning piano students (and others) who want to get a foothold in harmony and music theory. It is dedicated to teaching you the basic ideas behind the music. According to the back cover, "This practical collection is designed to accommodate the needs of students with widely differing levels of keyboard ability". Topics include progressions, sequences, modulations, figured bass, improvisation and score reading, and a short keyboard anthology. One thing that I especially appreciate is a collection of four-clef Bach chorales. The book is plastic-comb bound so that it stays open on your music rack and it is reasonably priced (~$30). The book might be helpful to music students whose main instrument is not piano and who need to study for a piano proficiency examination. The emphasis is on practicality, not theoretical explanation (If you like theoretical explanations try "Harmony and Voice Leading.") Harmony and Voice Leading  There is a lot of value packed into 181 pages.

It is USED, in pretty bad condition, full of markings and writings, and It doesn’t indicate so! Ugh

This is a text for university-level musicians studying harmony on a practical level. It assumes a solid knowledge of theory (around the grade 5 level) and a reasonable knowledge of piano playing. Without those, you will make very slow progress but even with them, this book provides perhaps a full year of reasonably intense practice. Once complete, your practical musicianship will be very solid indeed.

Good book, but needs much teacher guidance and embellishment to get points across. Heavily weighted on score reading, multiple C clefs. Not quite so practical in that regard. Could be modernized to reflect current requirements of music schools. Price a bit high for the size of the book also.