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20th century publications

harmonizations II: 20th-century publications

The following publications may not be directly related to preluding, but may contribute in some way

to advanced harmonic knowledge and contemporary performance techniques.

Rafael Joseffy (1852-1915)

School of Advanced Piano Playing (1902)

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Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)

Harmonielehre (1911)

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Vasily Safonov (1852-1918)

New Formula (for the Piano Teacher and Piano Student) (1913)

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Alberto Jonás (1868-1943)

Master School of Virtuoso Piano Playing (1922-29)

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Marcel Dupré (1886-1971)

Complete course in organ improvisation (Paris, 1925)

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Joseph Schillinger (1895-1943)

The Schillinger System of Musical Composition (1941)
 

Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)

Unterweisung im Tonsatz (1935-45)

Traditional Harmony (1943)

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Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992)

Technique de mon langage musical (1944)

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Nicolas Slonimsky (1894-1995)

Thesaurus Of Scales And Melodic Patterns (1947)

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George Russell (1923-2009)

Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization (1953)

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Rudolph Reti (1885-1957)

Tonality, Atonality, Pantonality: A study of some trends in twentieth century music (1958)

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Walter Piston (1894-1876)

Harmony (1959)

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Marguerite Long (1874-1966)

Le Piano (1959)

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Vincent Persichetti (1915-1987)

Twentieth-Century Harmony: Creative Aspects and Practice (1961)

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Konrad Rudolf

Compendium der Klavierimprovisation (1991)

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Mark Levine (1938-2022)

The Jazz Piano Book (1989)

The Jazz Theory Book (1995)

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Clare Fischer (1928-2012)

Harmonic Exercises for Piano (1996)

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William Allaudin Mathieu (1937)

Harmonic Experience (1997)

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Anna Butterworth

Harmony in Practice (1999)

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Elliot Carter (1908-2012)

Harmony Book (2001)

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Diether de la Motte (1928-2010)

Harmonielehre (2007)

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Pierre Van Dormael (1952-2008)

Four Principles to Understand Music (2008)

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Marilyn Nonken

The Spectral Piano (2014)

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Barrie Nettles & Richard Graf 

The Chord Scale Theory & Jazz Harmony (2015)

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ONLINE

Barry Harris (1929-2021)

Jazz Theory with Barry Harris, Part One

(check out part 2-7 on Jazz at Lincoln Center's JAZZ ACADEMY)

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