A Comprehensive Study of Harmonic Principles with Exercises (Understanding the Tonal Language)

Through his work "Understanding the Tonal Language" Frank Sergi, the author aims to make accessible to the student the structural and fundamental aspects of the tonal system. The first and second parts present the principles of proper chord connection and voice leading from the triad to the dominant seventh. The third and fourth parts cover dissonant chords from nondominant sevenths to augmented sixth chords, including nonharmonic tones and pedal tones. Harmonized versions of all exercises are printed in a separate volume "Understanding the Tonal Language - Analyses and Solutions of Exercises ISBN 9780991943425".