CONTENTS
1. Purpose: how the approach can help
- teachers, leaders and arrangers
- students of harmony
- musicians who perform early music
- practical musicologists
2. The basic concept: harmony from separate parts, rather than chords
3. The method
- an example
- description/analysis of the example
- summary of principles to follow
- an example to try yourself
- how the principles work in practice
- perform what you have written
- chord instruments
- words
4. An example worked step-by-step
5. Further refinements - which may be used once the basic method is familiar
6. Later thinking
7. Improvising
8. Notes on performing flexible arrangements
Appendix 1: The renaissance view of early music: summary at a glance
Appendix 2: A historical summary: how music was composed 950-1750
Appendix 3: Examples to perform from a wide range of styles
