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Explorations in Music Theory: Harmony, Musicianship, Improvisation book cover

1st Edition

Explorations in Music Theory Harmony, Musicianship, Improvisation

By Dariusz Terefenko, Benjamin Wadsworth Copyright 2025
856 Pages 1368 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

856 Pages 1368 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

856 Pages 1368 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Explorations in Music Theory: Harmony, Musicianship, Improvisation offers an innovative learning approach to music theory, centered on instrumental skills, improvisation, and composition. Providing a comprehensive textbook to support music theory curricula, along with an accompanying workbook, it includes extensive performance-based exercises in each chapter, alongside written theory and... Read more

Part I: Fundamentals

1. Music Notation

2. Rhythm and Meter

3. Major Scales

4. Minor Scales

5. Intervals

6. Triads

7. Seventh Chords

8. Non-Chord Tones

9. Root-Position Triads

10. First-Inversion Triads

11. Putting Together Unit I

 

Part II: Diatonic Harmony

12. Composing with V7

13. Non-Dominant Sevenths

14. viio7 and viiø7

15. 6/4 Chords

16. Microform

17. Applied Chords

18. Diatonic Modulation

19. Small Forms

20. Putting Together Unit II

 

Part III: Chromaticism

21. Diatonic Sequences

22. Mixture

23. The Neapolitan

24. Topic Theory

25. Augmented Sixths

26. Chromatic Chords

27. Chromatic Modulation

28. Chromatic Progressions

29. Putting Together Unit III

 

Part IV: Advanced Harmony

30. Rondo and Composite Forms

31. Sonata-Allegro Form

32. Concerto Forms

33. The Cadenza

34. Fugue

 

Part V: Advanced Topics

35. Modes and Collections

36. Free Atonality and Serialism

37. Centricity and Neoclassicism

38. Jazz Improvisation

39. Three 20th-Century Composers

40. Putting Together Units IV and V

Biography

Dariusz Terefenko is Professor of Jazz Studies and Contemporary Media and Affiliate Professor of Music Theory at Eastman School of Music, where he teaches courses in jazz and music theory. He is the author of Jazz Theory: From Basic to Advanced Study and Jazz Theory Workbook.

Benjamin Wadsworth is Professor of Music Theory at Kennesaw State University, where he oversees the Music Theory area.

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