Edly's Music Theory for Practical People

Key differences between 3rd and 2nd editions

• Time lapse between current and previous publications: 11 years (2010 vs 1999).
• Roseman's Edly's Music Theory was first published in 1996.
• The chapters have been heavily revised and updated, layout and graphics have been improved.
• The Third Ed. is 40 pages thicker than the Second Ed. and presents 7 new chapters:
• Choosing Extensions & Alterations
• Ingredients of Voicings
• Categories of Voicings
• Voice Leading
• Harmonizing a Melody
• Analyzing Chord Progressions
• Reharmonization
• Several headlines have been relabeled:
• chapter "Secondary Chords"corresponds to the former "Secondary Dominants and Other Secondary Chords"
• topic "Identifying an Unknown Chord By Inverting" corresponds to the former "Determining the Root and Chord Type of an Unknown Chord"
• topic " Categorizing Intervals By Their Sound" corresponds to the former "General Sound of Various Intervals"
• topic "Scales from Mercury" corresponds to the former " Modes from Mercury"