Option B jazz-related harmony: piano voicing, secondary dominants, extensions and alterations

What this note covers

1. What Option B asks for and what the SAAs reward
2. Chord vocabulary: spelling sevenths, extensions and alterations
3. Piano voicing and guide-tone voice-leading
4. Analysing the melody: chord tones, tensions, anticipations
5. Secondary dominants versus altered notes: reading the accidental
6. Extensions and alterations: where they sound right
7. Worked example: an original swing melody harmonised

7 sections · 12 key terms & formulas · 6 common mistakes