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Polyphony
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Harmony
Hindemith, Paul.  Craft of Musical Composition.  European American Music, 1941-1942.  Expert's theory.
Jourdain, Robert.  Music, the Brain, and Ecstasy: How Music Captures Our Imagination.  Morrow, 1997.  Why we enjoy music; includes a section on the role of harmony.
Piston, Walter.  Counterpoint  Norton, 1978.  Principles and examples in 18th- and 19th-century composers.
Piston, Walter.  Harmony.  Norton, 1987.  Harmonies as practiced by 18th- and 19th-century composers; written exercises.
Rameau, Jean-Philippe.  Treatise on Harmony.  Dover, 1970.  The French composer's influential book; first published 1722.
Shanet, Howard.  Learn to Read Music.  Simon & Schuster, 1971.  How to understand the basic signs and symbols of musical notation.
Straus, Joseph Nathan.  Remaking the Past: Musical Modernism and the Influence of the Tonal Tradition.  Harvard University Press, 1990.  Scholarly study of the relationship between 20th-century music and classical music, including the element of harmony.
Thomson, William.  Schoenberg's Error.  University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991.  The results of composers' adoption of Schoenberg's twelve-tone method.
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