[PD] pd-based procedural chord progression database..

[Chuckk Hubbard]

On 8/14/06, David Powers <cyborgk at gmail.com> wrote:
> I recommend "The Jazz Piano Book" by Mark Levine. Even though it's a piano
> book, it is really as much an applied theory book. I read this about 15
> years ago, and it was great in presenting material I already knew in a
> logical, concise way, and also in presenting some interesting new material.

I've heard of this.  That reminds me, one book I did learn a lot from
was Arnold Schoenberg's 'Theory of Harmony'.  He talks about some of
the same things, but references Beethoven, Mahler, Wagner, and Bach at
times.  He does not talk about Serialism or atonal music, it's
strictly based on his research of tonal music before he got into those
things.  A lot of the extended chords we associate with jazz were
used, albeit differently, by guys like Debussy and Schoenberg before
anyone tried to put them in jazz.
Some jazz of the last 50 years is great, btw, but jazz before then was
great too!