Techniques and Materials of Tonal Music
Techniques and Materials of Tonal Music

Author: Thomas Benjamin

Publisher: Schirmer

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780534526238

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This book is designed to be the primary text for the first two years of college music theory. It covers all the basics of composition including harmony, melody, and musical form.

Concise Introduction to Tonal Harmony and Student Workbook
Concise Introduction to Tonal Harmony and Student Workbook

Author: L. Poundie Burstein

Publisher:

Published: 2015-10-26

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 9780393572315

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Authors Burstein and Straus combine decades of teaching experience with concise prose, carefully curated musical examples, and a robust, skill-sharpening media program to illuminate the essential concepts of music theory. The workbook includes hundreds of exercises--more than enough for any one course--allowing instructors the flexibility to construct assignments that meet their students' needs. Every workbook chapter follows a similar organization and features questions for review, chord spelling exercises, Roman numeral and figured bass realizations, composition activities, and music for analysis.

Introduction to Post-Tonal Theory
Introduction to Post-Tonal Theory

Author: Joseph N. Straus

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2016-01-29

Total Pages: 8

ISBN-13: 0393938832

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Now published by Norton, Introduction to Post-Tonal Theory has been thoroughly updated to reflect the latest developments in the field, with additional coverage of transformational theory and voice leading. The Fourth Edition helps students identify key theoretical points and guides them through the process of analysis, while also offering new recently composed musical examples—all at an exceptional value.

Materials and Techniques of Post-Tonal Music
Materials and Techniques of Post-Tonal Music

Author: Stefan Kostka

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-03-13

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 1351859226

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Materials and Techniques of Post-Tonal Music, Fifth Edition provides the most comprehensive introduction to post-tonal music and its analysis available. Covering music from the end of the nineteenth century through the beginning of the twenty-first, it offers students a clear guide to understanding the diverse and innovative compositional strategies that emerged in the post-tonal era, from Impressionism to computer music. This updated fifth edition features: chapters revised throughout to include new examples from recent music and insights from the latest scholarship; the introduction of several new concepts and topics, including parsimonius voice-leading, scalar transformations, the New Complexity, and set theory in less chromatic contexts; expanded discussions of spectralism and electronic music; timelines in each chapter, grounding the music discussed in its chronological context; a companion website that provides students with links to recordings of musical examples discussed in the text and provides instructors with an instructor’s manual that covers all of the exercises in each chapter. Offering accessible explanations of complex concepts, Materials and Techniques of Post-Tonal Music, Fifth Edition is an essential text for all students of post-tonal music theory.