Theory Of Music Books

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   The Principles and Practice of Modal Counterpoint

   By Douglass Green, Evan Jones

   Covering modal music from Gregorian chant through the seventeenth century, The Principles and Practice of Modal Counterpoint is a comprehensive textbook combining stylistic composition, theory and analysis, music history, and performance. By supplementing a modified species approach with a wealth...

   September 2010 | 978-0-415-98865-0 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Fundamentals for the Aspiring Musician: A Preparatory Course for Music Theory

   By Robert J. Frank, Kenneth Metz

   Fundamentals for the Aspiring Musician is a completely integrated textbook written for students who wish to study music professionally. It uses technology to its fullest to aid students in preparation for the study of music theory by laying a thorough and solid foundation of basic music...

   July 2010 | 978-0-415-80104-1 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Psychology of Music: From Sound to Significance

   By Siu-Lan Tan, Peter Pfordresher, Rom Harré

   Why are some disturbances of air molecules heard as 'noise' while others are perceived as music? What happens at the level of the sound wave, the ear, and the brain when we perform or listen to music? How do musical abilities emerge and develop, and become refined as one acquires musical expertise?...

   April 2010 | 978-1-84169-868-7 | Hardback (Psychology Press)
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   Music Fundamentals: A Balanced Approach

   By Sumy Takesue

   Music Fundamentals is written for students who want to learn the basics of music. Keeping in mind the student with very little or no prior knowledge of music, musical concepts are reinforced by numerous examples including global music, along with a comprehensive website for students to...

   March 2010 | 978-0-415-99724-9 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Developing Musicianship Through Aural Skills: A Holistic Approach to Sight Singing and Ear Training

   By Kent D. Cleland, Mary Dobrea-Grindahl

   Developing Musicianship Through Aural Skills is a comprehensive method for learning to hear, sing, understand, and use the foundations of music as a part of an integrated and holistic curriculum for training professional musicians. Each chapter is organized to take advantage of how our minds...

   February 2010 | 978-0-415-80244-4 | Paperback (Routledge)

6. Hearing Form: Musical Analysis With and Without the Score

   By Matthew Santa

   Hearing Form is a textbook/workbook for upper-level undergraduate college courses on the analysis of musical form. It reviews concepts such as score reading, instrumental transposition, cadences, phrase structure, harmonic sequences, and modulation while at the same time introducing a style of...

   December 2009 | 978-0-415-87263-8 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Music Theory Through Improvisation: A New Approach to Musicianship Training

   By Ed Sarath

   Designed for Music Theory courses, Music Theory Through Improvisation presents a unique approach to basic theory and musicianship training that examines the study of traditional theory through the art of improvisation. The book follows the same general progression of diatonic to non-diatonic...

   September 2009 | 978-0-415-99725-6 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   SchenkerGUIDE: A Brief Handbook and Website for Schenkerian Analysis

   By Thomas Pankhurst

   SchenkerGUIDE is an accessible overview of Heinrich Schenker's complex but fascinating approach to the analysis of tonal music. The book has emerged out of the widely used website, www.SchenkerGUIDE.com, which has been offering straightforward explanations of Schenkerian analysis to...

   2008 | 978-0-415-97398-4 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Form and Method: Composing Music: The Rothschild Essays

   By Roger Reynolds

   Edited by Stephen McAdams

   Includes 136 music examples...

   2007 | 9789057551581 | Paperback (Routledge)
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    Orchestration: An Anthology of Writings

    Edited by Paul Mathews

    Orchestration: An Anthology of Writings is designed to be a primary or ancillary text for college-level music majors. Although there are several 'how to' textbooks aimed at this market, there is little available that traces the history of orchestration through the writings of composers themselves....

    2006 | 978-0-415-97683-1 | Paperback (Routledge)