The Praktische Harmonieübungen are to be seen as a supplement to the widely used Harmonielehre im Selbststudium (BV 261). In addition to numerous writing and analyzing exercises together with solution models, the exercise book also contains a wealth of helpful hints.

The material ranges stylistically from the Baroque, Classic and Romantic epochs through gospel music up to popular songs of our time, making it suitable for anyone involved with harmony issues.

A special feature of the book is that it also contains proposals for those exercises of the basic book Harmonielehre im Selbststudium whose solutions are omitted there. Thus, the author and publisher are responding to a number of ideas and wishes that have been submitted to them. Anyone using the Praktische Harmonieübungen along with Krämer’s Harmonielehre im Selbststudium – whether for their own work or in the classroom – will go through a methodical, carefully considered harmonic writing and analysis course comprehensively unfolding the fundamentals of major/minor tonal music from about 1600 to the present day.