Harmony
There are quite a few good textbooks out there:
I have found the following useful (all currently available):
Edward Aldwell and Carl Schachter: Harmony and voice leading (dense) Bruce Benward's, Music in theory and practice (a great start) Alex Burnard: Harmony and Composition (old but still fresh) J. Chailley and H. Chaillan: Théorie Complète (Comprehensive French
text) Diether de la Motte: The Study of Harmony: An Historical
Perspective Théodore Dubois: Traité d'Harmonie (The grandfather of French harmony
texts) Paul Hindemith: Traditional Harmony (Conservative and useful) Vincent Persichetti: Twentieth-Century Harmony (Craft techniques for
serious composition) Walter Piston and Mark Devoto: Harmony (Tonicization started here!)
For general information see the
New
Grove Online (when you're in the library or on your student access
account.
Dolmetsch Online
Dictionary or
Music Theory &
History are relatively accessible and generally accurate places to
look for things quickly if you don't have Grove online access.
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