Traditional Harmony, Book 2: Exercises for Advanced Students

The 4 musical composition books, by Paul Hindemith, were given as a gift to a dear friend who raved about them;hence, this review is based upon their extreme delight with them.

This is a very interesting book for students who want to learn more about the application of the basic theory they have learned. Hindemith provides all kinds of short pieces to finish. He starts with canons and ends with large ensemble pieces. He provides some of the basic ideas and leaves it to the student (with the help of an able teacher) to work out sound solutions to complete the work.Of course, the idea is to not only work them out on paper, but to also perform them with fellow students and see if it actually works as music or not. Hindemith was always working towards building able and practical musicians, not supplying some dusty and largely useless principles to memorize.This is by no means a simple book, but very interesting and quite useful for a practical musician to work through.

Perfect!!