31.11: Harmonizing the Bebop Scale
In The Jazz Theory Book, author Mark Levine provides a method for harmonizing the bebop major scale (1^ –2^ –3^ –4^ –5^ –♯5^ –6^ –7^ –8^ ) with four voices.
Try singing through each part—soprano, alto, tenor, then bass.
Notice that all of the non-tonic chords are viivii∘7 chords in various inversions.
One hears a similar approach to harmonizing a scale (though without the fully-diminished seventh chords as passing chords) in the following example.