Description:
Welcome to Harmonyville 01625 is about a
sweet little town whose residents are chord symbols infused with life
through Jon Damian's illustrations and narration.The book is fun for everyone.
Brief description: JON DAMIAN is an active international performer, composer, lecturer, clinician and author. Jon spent 45 years as a professor at The Berklee College of Music. His varied performances have ranged from Luciano Pavarotti to Bill Frisell and from the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Seiji Ozawa to Johnny Cash with the Boston Pops under John Williams. Jon Damian has recorded in a wide range of settings including The Boston Modern Orchestra Project, The Boston Pops Orchestra under Keith Lock- hart and John Williams, Bill Frisell, Bob Nieske's Wolf Soup, The Boston Symphony Orchestra under Seiji Ozawa, Collage, and for NOVA. Heis the author of The Guitarists Guide to Composing and Improvising and The Chord Factory: Build Your Own Guitar Chord Dictionary available through Berklee Press and Hal Leonard Publications and Fresh Music: Explorations with the Creative Workshop Ensemble for Musicians, Artists, and Teachers, published by YO! Publications.
Review Quotes:
"Jon is one of the warmest, funniest, freest, most musical people I know. And all of that is in his book. It is loaded with groan-worthy puns and extended riffs (and extended dominants) on the subject that is dear to his heart and mine: harmony. The personalities he ascribes to notes and chords are hilarious and approachable. Oops, I mean 'relatable.' After you read Jon's book, you will never again be able to say, 'Oh that stuff is all math, I can't understand it.'"
-JOE MULHOLLAND
CHAIR EMERITUS, HARMONY DEPARTMENT, BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC
"With Harmonyville 01625 Jon welcomes us all in and gives us the opportunity to explore and venture further into the wonderful world of his imagination."
-BILL FRISELL
GRAMMY-WINNING GUITARIST
"Welcome to Harmonyville is a fun ride through the trials and tribulations of two chord symbols that have come to life. Mr. Damian's creativity is boundless, and not limited to the fretboard!"
-JAMES VALENTINE, MAROON 5
GRAMMY-WINNING GUITARIST
"One of the great musical innovations of all time seems obvious to us now- harmony. Jon Damian's book creates a fun and educational way of understanding harmony, a simple concept with myriad applications that has provided us
so many musical riches."
-ROGER H. BROWN
PRESIDENT, BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC