Get and keep by you a good basic theory book

Arranging techniques possibly, Mark, but I think composing ends up such a personal thing that it would go way beyond the main purposes of the forum.

David, I'd challenge you to duel of theory books were it not that we're still half packed up from moving house and I don't know where that part of my library is (at least, I think I do but the cupboard isn't glass fronted and the doors are blocked by cartons anyway). I know I've got the Oxford Harmony vols 1&2 and the Oxford Students Harmony, multiple others, AND "A Concentrated Course in Traditional Harmony: With Emphasis on Exercises and a Minimum of Rules" by Paul Hindemith which I discovered far too late in life and which is the best shortcourse I've ever come across.

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