Publisher's Synopsis
The summary of the series this is the partial text only edition, a manual for many new methods of composition and new music theory including: studies into modal diatonicism, modes, diatonic variants, harmonic minor, harmonic major, Hungarian gypsy, Hungarian minor, melodic minor, and their modes, serialism, polyserialism, retroharmonization, sixth chords, neopolitan sixths, augmented sixths, atonal methods, atonality, chord stacking for extensions and relations, extensional bitonality, enharmonic scalar functions, prodominant minor, parallel relatives, parallel prodominants, relative parallels, prodominant parallels, alternate harmonic extrapolations, cluster theory, scalar reflections, reflections of chords, blues theory, and fulcrums. To the point and focused this book has a wealth of methods and theories for both improvisation and composition. This is the preliminary partial text edition and is a companion to the series of more in depth studies that contain notational examples. The full edition with all topics discussed in depth and with notational examples coming soon.
