Theory & Analysis

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  1. Book ImageThe Musician's Guide to Aural Skills: Ear Training and Composition

    Joel Phillips, Paul Murphy, Elizabeth West Marvin, Et Al.

    Second Edition / Volume(s): 2

    All the practical skills students need to succeed as professional musicians—in a single pedagogical program.More

  2. Book ImageThe Musician's Guide to Aural Skills: Sight-Singing, Rhythm-Reading, Improvisation, and Keyboard Skills

    Joel Phillips, Paul Murphy, Elizabeth West Marvin, Et Al.

    Second Edition / Volume(s): 1

    All the practical skills students need to succeed as professional musicians—in a single pedagogical program.More

  3. Book ImageThe Musician's Guide to Theory and Analysis

    Jane Piper Clendinning, Elizabeth West Marvin

    Second Edition

    Emphasizing real music and music-making, The Musician’s Guide to Theory and Analysis gives students the hands-on tools they need to learn how music works.More

  4. Book ImageThe Musician's Guide to Aural Skills

    Joel Phillips, Jane Piper Clendinning, Elizabeth West Marvin

    Volume(s): 2

    This two-volume text covers diatonic, chromatic, and contemporary harmony, as well as voice leading, emphasizing practical performance skills by integrating theoretical principles with aural and keyboard skills through coordinated keyboard, sight-singing, dictation, improvisation, and composition exercises.More

  5. Book ImageThe Musician's Guide to Aural Skills

    Joel Phillips, Jane Piper Clendinning, Elizabeth West Marvin

    Volume(s): 1

    This two-volume text covers diatonic, chromatic, and contemporary harmony, as well as voice leading, emphasizing practical performance skills by integrating theoretical principles with aural and keyboard skills through coordinated keyboard, sight-singing, dictation, improvisation, and composition exercises.More

  6. Book ImageHarmonic Practice in Tonal Music

    Robert Gauldin

    Second Edition

    Conceptually sophisticated and exceptionally musical, Harmonic Practice in Tonal Music provides a thorough treatment of harmony and voice-leading principles in tonal music.More

  7. Book ImagePerspectives on Musical Aesthetics

    John Rahn

    A fascinating collection of essays on creating, performing, and thinking about music in today's world.More

  8. Book ImageThe Interpretation of Early Music

    Robert Donington

    New Revised Edition

    Since it was first published in 1963, Robert Donington's classic text has become the standard of reference for all would-be performers , students, and amateurs of baroque music.More

  9. Book ImageA Guide to Musical Analysis

    Nicholas Cook

    In this extremely practical introduction to musical analysis, the author explores the factors that give unity and coherence to musical masterpieces, seeking the answers mainly in the formal and harmonic structure of individual compositions.More

  10. Book ImageNorton Manual of Music Notation

    George Heussenstamm

    The Norton Manual of Music Notation is designed to serve as a practical guide to music handwriting and music-writing procedures. It provides the music student with an essential tool for learning to put notes down on paper with clarity and speed. At the same time, it serves as an indispensable reference to a wide variety of notational conventions.More

  11. Book ImageBasic Harmonic Progressions

    John Clough, Joyce Conley

    In this new text, designed to follow SCALES, INTERVALS, KEYS, TRIADS, RHYTHMS, AND METER by the same authors, the procedures of programmed instruction are utilized to promote the student's mastery of part-writing fundamentals and understanding of the basic concepts of harmonic progression.More

  12. Book ImageIntroduction to Schenkerian Analysis: Form and Content in Tonal Music

    Allen Forte, Steven Gilbert

    This book is intended to serve as a basic textbook on Schenkerian analysis, the analytical approach developed over a period of many years by the Austrian music theorist Heinrich Schenker (1868-1935).More

  13. Book ImageStructural Functions of Harmony

    Arnold Schoenberg

    Revised Edition

    This book is Schoenberg's last completed theoretical work and represents his final thoughts on the subject of classical and romantic harmony.More