Comprehensive technical guide to musical harmony, chord progressions, and arrangements.

• Provides a detailed analyses of harmonic structures, modal borrowing, secondary dominants, and harmonic vectors through many popular songs

• Suitable for musicians, composers, arrangers, singers, improvisers, and music enthusiasts
  
  

This book presents a systematic framework for understanding functional harmony, chord relationships, and tonal motion through the concept of harmonic vectors. Designed for musicians, composers, arrangers, and advanced students of music theory, the text connects traditional tonal analysis with deeper structural concepts such as harmonic classes, overtone-derived chords, alternate roots, and symmetrical pitch systems.

You’ll learn:

• How intervals and chord roots define harmonic structure

• The meaning of tonic, tonality, modality, and diatonic function

• How Roman numerals and harmonic classes reveal chord relationships

• The mechanics behind ii–V progressions and dominant motion

• How secondary dominants expand tonal harmony

• The role of diminished seventh structures as leading-tone and common-tone chords

• How modal borrowing reshapes tonal color

• Techniques for root substitutions, alternate roots, and implied harmony

• How deceptive resolutions and retrogression affect musical motion

• The harmonic logic behind non-diatonic chords and multi-vectored harmony

• How the overtone series and acoustic ratios shape tonal systems