The idea behind presenting all the worked exercises from various textbooks is twofold:
Firstly, I have spent a long time trying to develop some ability in the techniques essential to composition. To this end I worked all the examples, some of them two or three times, in the books which I studied. Initially I did them using paper and pencil (and rubber!). It is not too extravagant to suggest that even artifical exercises, which by their nature focus on technical mattters, can be made to sound quite interesting and musical as actual compositions, so I don’t want all my work just to sit in a cupboard for ever. In fact, rescoring the exercises has been an opportunity to revise them and also become more fluent in their preparation (ie isoftware notation).
Secondly, now that anyone can produce and publish professional standard scores using software such as Dorico and WordPress. I thought it might be beneficial to anyone else who is working through the same exercises. Naturally, my solutions are only one of many possible, but if anyone gets stuck, or is just curious as to how someone else did them, then he can check to see how I made a particular point or solved a particular problem.
At the moment all the exercises in William Lovelock’s First Year Harmony, Second Year Harmony and Free Counterpoint are available to view. Also in preparation are all the exercises from Third Year Harmony and 108 Exercises In Harmonisation Exercises by the same author, as well as exercises from Samuel Adler’s Orchestration Workbook (4th ed).
The harmonisations I have uploaded are in two colours: notes in red are the given notes of the exercises and notes in black are what I have added to complete them.
Additionally, audio performances of harmony, counterpoint and orchestration exercises are going to be uploaded as they are made, which I will do once I have completed the scores.