The Berklee Book of Jazz Harmony

Learn jazz harmony, as taught at Berklee College of Music. This text provides a strong foundation in harmonic principies, supporting further study in jazz composition, arranging, and improvisation. It covers basic chord types and their tensions, with practical demonstrations of how they are used in characteristic jazz contexts, and an accompanying recording that lets you hear how they can be applied.
You will learn to:
- Use the essential harmonies that create a characteristic jazz round
- Expand basic seventh and sixth chords with available tensions
- Understand the theoretical relationship between chords and scales, and how to use that theory in the creative process
- Understand the syntax of jazz chord progressions
- Create within diatonic, blues, and modal contexts
- Construct appropriate chord voicings to strengthen your progressions

CONTENIDO:

CD Tracks
Acknowledgment
Introduction
Chapter 1 Major Key Harmony
Chapter 2 Secondary Dominants, Extended Dominants, and the "II V" Progression
Chapter 3 Substitute Dominants: "SubV's"
Chapter 4 Minor Key Harmony: A Sea of Options
Chapter 5 Modal Interchange
Chapter 6 Blues in Jazz
Chapter 7 The Diminished Seventh Chord
Chapter 8 Modulation
Chapter 9 Modal Harmony in jazz
Chapter 10 Outside of the Box: Constant Structure Progressions
Chapter 11 Jazz Voicings
Appendix A The Standard Deceptive Resolutions of V7
Appendix B Non-Resolving Dominant Seventh Chords
About the authors
Index