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Frackenpohl, arthur is the author of harmonization at the piano, published 1990. By holly day, jerry kovarksy, blake neely, david pearl, michael pilhofer. Using secondary chords in harmonization to make harmony more interesting, it is possible to break away from using just chords i, iv and v7 and start. Using chords and melodies together, making harmony by stacking scale tones as triads a harmonized scale can be created by using each note of a musical scale as a root note for a chord and then by taking other tones within the scale building the rest of a chord.
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