I am currently trying to write a book about harmony.

I know so many other books exist out there and I often re-read the ones I learned from myself, but the reason for writing the kind of book I want to write is because, over the years, when I am teaching I see what approach students of mine respond to, and I can't find the kind of book that would help them through the early stages of learning harmony that they can refer to outside of lesson times.

I'm also going over and over the same territory with each one individually and I would like to be able to direct them to a book that explains the way I teach harmony. this, of course, means the way I learned harmony. Since I learned a variety of methods of picking up the fundamentals (from High School, from private tuition, on my own, and at music college) these "methods" have blended into how I learned. That blended approach is what I'm trying to put into book form.

The chapter I finished today was on "cadences".

Searching the web for what was there by way of examples of cadences I came across such a variety of terminology that was neither consistent with each source or with my own learning.

There seems to be a disparity in labelling some cadences. For example: the "imperfect cadence" (which I learned is the cadence landing on chord V), seems to sometimes be called a "half cadence" and then there also seems to be a confusion with whether there's such a thing as the "deceptive cadence" and whether the imperfect cadence is a deceptive cadence itself.

It's this kind of confusion that is found online that makes me, even more, feel the need to clear these things up for my won students at least.

Just the first post on my newly designed website. Collecting together different media and information in one place (as on this website) is a much more time-consuming task than you first think it's going to be. It's taken an entire day!