Traditional fourpart chorale settings are used to introduce many concepts, but three-part instrumental and vocal textures are also presented in illustrations and drill work, along with a variety of keyboard styles. To encourage the correlation of writing and performing skills, we have included musical examples in score and reduced-score formats, as well as appendices on instrumental ranges and transpositions and lead-sheet symbols.
Some of the assignments ask the student to write for small ensembles suitable for performance in class. Instructors may modify these assignments to make them most appropriate for their particular situations. The text employs a variety of techniques to clarify underlying voice leading, harmonic structure, counterpoint, and formal procedures.
These include textural reductions, accompanying many of the examples, which highlight underlying voice leading. Our goal has been to elucidate tonal logic at the phrase and section level, as well as from one chord to the next. Abundant musical illustrations, many with commentaries, serve as a springboard for class discussion and individual understanding. Similarly, exercises in tonal counterpoint allow students to observe the workings of basic principles of melodic combination in relation to typical outer-voice textures in tonal compositions.
The book provides an extensive series of review material. A large portion of the text is devoted to Self-Tests, consisting of student graded drills in chord spelling, part writing, and analysis, with suggested answers given in Appendix D. Saying that the way we think music is far from the way we do music, Mathieu explains why certain combinations of sounds are experienced by the listener as harmonious. His prose often resembles the rhythms and cadences of music itself, and his many musical examples allow readers to discover their own musical responses.
Fake Book. Perfect Binding Edition. Every Jazz Standard analysis was hand-made by well-versed jazz musicians. Every function, chord-scale, modulation and pivot-chord was carefully chosen to create the best possible harmonic interpretation of the progression. All double-page songs are presented side-by-side, so no flipping through pages is necessary.
This comprehensive resource features more than projections and colour illustrations augmented by MRI images for added detail to enhance the anatomy and positioning presentations. For over two decades Tonal Harmony has been the leading text for the two-year theory curriculum for music majors.
Used at nearly schools, Tonal Harmony has been consistently praised for its practicality and ease of use for student and instructor alike. The straightforward approach is supported by well-chosen examples and thoughtful exercises, and the total presentation is compatible with differing teaching styles and theoretical points of view.
In addition, students can purchase a CD of recorded examples for use with the textbook, while audio examples for the workbook are available for download as MP3 files.
For instructors, an extensive Instructor's Manual is available and rounds out this comprehensive teaching package. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity individual or corporate has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface.
We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant. Music Theory Essentials offers an antidote to music theory textbooks that are overly long and dense.
Focusing on the essentials, this text provides a clear-cut guide to the key concepts of music theory. This work contains chapters devoted to book-length treatises and their related citations, a general bibliography containing mostly journal articles, and an index, and includes harmony-related materials from the Baroque period through the present day.
Score: 5. Its outstanding ancillaries, which include a collection of audio examples on CD for both the text and workbook , Finale Workbook Software, and an extensive Instructor's Manual, round out the comprehensive teaching package.
Score: 4. Popular Books. The Becoming by Nora Roberts. Fear No Evil by James Patterson. As the author states, 'The rules of music--including counterpoint and harmony--were not formed in our brains but in the resonance chambers of our bodies. Saying that the way we think music is far from the way we do music, Mathieu explains why certain combinations of sounds are experienced by the listener as harmonious.
His prose often resembles the rhythms and cadences of music itself, and his many musical examples allow readers to discover their own musical responses. It is devoted to exploring the relationships between acoustics, human information processing, and culture as well as to methodological issues raised by the widespread use of computers as a powerful tool for theory construction, theory testing, and the manipulation of musical information or any kind of data manipulation related to music.
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