This revised method is now available as a comprehensive textbook. Devised from practice and designed for practical use, it provides the theoretical knowledge necessary for improvisation, composing, and arranging.

Jazz harmony, as taught at the Berklee College of Music is based on the so called Chord Scale Theory. This method - further developed - is now available as a comprehensive textbook for the first time. Emerged from practice and designed for practical use, it provides theoretical knowledge necessary for improvisation, composing, and arranging.

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Introduction - Harmonic Structures - Diatonic Harmony - Dominant Chords and Diatonic Function - Minor Key Harmony - Blues - Diminihed seventh Chords - Dominant Chords with Special Functions - Modal Interchange - Voicing Specific Chord Symbols and Structures - Modulations - Modal Systems - Nonfunctional Harmony - Introduction to Arranging - Appendix - Index