The primary aim of this book is to help the reader to understand the language of music and how it works in relation to the guitar. It is not intended as a substitute for all other lines of study, but it will provide a basic knowledge that can be expanded and developed. The reader is urged to read as wide a range of books as possible and to examine whatever music he or she possesses to identify further examples of the points discussed. The examples should be played and carefully listened to. The ...

• Acknowledgements
• Foreword
• Musical Sounds and their Organizaton
• The Organization of Single Notes
• Melody
• Intervals
• The Beginnings of Harmony ? Triads
• Functional Harmony and Cadences
• Primary Triads and Harmonization
• Secondary Triads and Substitution
• Modulation and Transition
• Secondary Sevenths
• Other Diatonic Secondary Sevenths
• The Cadential Six-four
• The Dominant Ninth
• Secondary Ninths
• Chords of the Eleventh and Thirteenth
• Chromatic Alteration of Diatonic Chords -...