This course is designed to instill fluency with the guitar fretboard through advanced exploration of the mechanisms of common practice harmony on the guitar. It will lead to a fuller understanding of the harmonic processes at work in the repertoire and assist in the development of improvisation, transcription, and arranging capabilities. The course begins with a review of intervals, chords, harmonic progressions, elemental figured bass realization, and melody harmonization. Students will then be required to create effective arrangements of folk songs, transcribe and arrange pieces from the piano, string, and orchestral repertoires, create figured bass reductions of works from the 19th and 20th century guitar repertoire, and harmonize melodies using an advanced chromatic vocabulary.