Endorsements

Henry Mancini, 4x Winner of the Academy Awards (Oscar) and 20 Grammy's
Peter Alexander in his series, Applied Professional Harmony, has created what I feel will be standard text in schools for many years to come. In a thoroughly readable style, he has managed the neat trick of erasing the lines between so called 'popular' music and 'classical' music. Read and Learn.

John Tesh, 6X Emmy Winner and 4 Gold Albums
If I had these books when I was in college, I'd have stayed in music school.

E.J. Doyle, National Academy of Songwriters
"Alexander Publishing books are comprehensive, efficient, and indispensable tools for National Academy of Songwriter members. I recommend them."

Contents

Summary Table of Contents
Applied Professional Harmony 102

Basics of Seventh Chords
Seventh Chords and their Applications Yesterday and Today
Connecting Seventh Chords to the Tonic
Seventh Chords in Root Position - Two Chord Patterns
Prepare-Strike-Resolve
Melody and Analysis
Root Position Seventh Chords in Longer Progressions
Three More Ways to Introduce the 7th Degree
Five Alternate Resolution Patterns
Another View of Resolving the Small 7th Degree
Passing Notes and How to Harmonize Them
Diatonic Passing Tones Creating Contrary Motion
Neither Preparing Nor Resolving 7th Chords
Omitting Tones From Seventh Chords
Developing Background Lines with Root Position Seventh Chords
Ninth Chord and Ninth Tone
More Jazz Voicings and Chord Tone Substitutions
Third in the Bass and the Bass and the Upper Neighbor
The Lower Neighbor
Developing Background Lines: Seventh Chords With 3rd in the Bass
7th in the Bass & the Cambiata
Seventh With the Fifth in the Bass
Compositional Applications Seventh Chords with Fifth in the Bass
Building Successive Seventh Chords
The Echappee and the Appoggiatura
Syncopation Classical Style
Pop Use of Syncopation and Anticipations
Organ or Pedal Point
Suspensions: An Indepth List
The Classical Anticipation
Compositional Analysis
Modality: The Minor Key Area
Aeolian Mode: The Minor Key
Gaining a View of Minor
Minor Chord Progressions With Inversions
Freer Treatment of the III+
Common Use of the Seventh Chords in Minor
Advanced Work in Minor
Compositional Application to Minor
Commonly Altered Chords
More on Modality
Conclusion

How to Use

The Applied Professional Harmony series is the first harmony series, endorsed by winners (both songwriters) of the Academy™, Grammy™ and Emmy™ Awards, that combines writing and recording your work so that you learn harmony, songwriting skills, arranging, and recording/production skills with virtually every exercise you do.

Applied Professional Harmony 102 picks up where APH101 left off. There is extensive discussion and time spent on seventh, ninth, and thirteenth chords and the assignment of specific chord types to chord scales.

The material here goes far beyond the more traditional academic texts since both "classical" and pop uses of the seventh chord are covered. You also begin to learn various techniques of melody development for theme and variation techniques, various types of pedal point. Lesson 33 begins an indepth treatment of the minor key area. Again, this is a writer's approach, so throughout APH 102 you'll be doing lots of writing.