Here are the highlights from the above replay:

• Part 1 — Simple Harmonization
  
  
  
  • 0:00 : Essentials of chords — Blocked, Broken/Arpeggiated, Inverted, Embellished Arpeggiations, and Embellished Blocks
  
  
  • 6:55 : How (nearly) all tonal melodies embellish the tonic chord, with “If I Listen With My Heart” as a specific example (audio on YouTube)
  
  
  • 10:50 : The “quick and dirty” method for harmonizing melodies — “Which chords tend to harmonize which scale degrees?”
  
  
  
  


• Part 2 — Richer Harmonization
  
  
  
  • 25:30 : How counterpoint gives a richer understanding of harmony than “chord progressions”
    
    
    
    • 25:30 : . . . from a theoretical point of view
    
    
    • 29:45 : . . . from a music history point of view
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • 36:26 : Contrapuntal gestures in Sally DeFord’s original version (PDF) of “If I Listen With My Heart”
  
  
  • 47:45 : Contrapuntal gestures in Ryan Murphy’s arrangement (PDF)
  
  
  
  


• 56:50 : A special invitation to get feedback on your own arrangements and compositions (see below)


• Part 3 — Q+A
  
  
  
  • 58:15 : How conscious are composers/arrangers of contrapuntal gestures?
  
  
  • 1:05:15 : What are parallel fifths?
  
  
  • 1:07:40 : What resources exist for learning contrapuntal gestures?
  
  
  • 1:10:29 : What is a half cadence?
  
  
  • 1:17:10 : D-sharp vs. E-flat in bar 15 of DeFord’s original vs. the corresponding instances in Murphy’s arrangement