@Barney Johnson Hi Barney, Thanks a lot for your detailed reply — that actually helps me understand the logic of the French method much better. Just before discovering your course, I had bought Isabelle Duha’s L’harmonie en liberté – de la mémoire à l’improvisation. I’ve started looking at her fiches techniques, where she has the student memorize and transpose basic chord progressions, cadences and harmonic sequences at the piano. I find that approach very appealing because it seems to build the sound and the voice-leading into the hands and ears before doing too much theoretical analysis. Do you know Duha’s book, and if so, how would you place it in relation to the method you teach? Would you see it as a useful parallel piano practice to your exercises, or would you recommend keeping the approaches separate at the beginning? I’d be very interested in your view, especially since the goals seem closely related.

@Barney Johnson Thanks Barney — this is extremely helpful. One thing just occurred to me: I may actually be referring to a newer Duha book than the one you bought after your teacher passed away. Mine is Le langage musical en liberté – Harmonie et contrepoint au clavier, de la mémoire à l’improvisation (2021). It comes in two volumes, Textes and Réalisations. The latter gives the basses, melodies and mémorisations fully realized and analysed, with practical explanations. The early fiches techniques are also very explicit about the voicings, keyboard fingering, memorisation and transposition. Do you know this newer edition/work as well? I’m wondering whether the Réalisations volume changes your assessment of its usefulness for self-study, at least for the technical material at the beginning. And your SuperProf suggestion caught my attention. Since you know the Paris scene much better than I do: is there a Duha student, or another teacher of harmonie au clavier, whom you would personally recommend? Ideally someone who really teaches this practical keyboard approach rather than only written harmony. Thanks again — your explanation of written harmony + harmony at the keyboard as two complementary tracks really clicked for me. https://www.billaudot.com/?view=product&lang=fr_FR&product_id=35112