Supplemental Materials on Theory of Chords and Harmony

Slides from the class about Harmony are here.

I also recommend going over this excerpt from the Dance Manual Book (see previous post "Books and references" with links to the book).

Learning Goals:
You should be comfortable with chord notations, major and minor scales and the rest of Music Harmony Theory appearing the readings above.

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