Full Description
Theory for Today's Musician, Fourth Edition, recasts the scope of the traditional music theory course to meet the demands of the professional music world, in a style that speaks directly and engagingly to today's music student. It uses classical, folk, popular, and jazz repertoires with clear explanations that link music theory to musical applications. The authors help prepare students by not only exploring how music theory works in art music, but how it functions within modern music, and why this knowledge will help them become better composers, music teachers, performers, and recording engineers.
This broadly comprehensive text merges traditional topics such as part-writing and harmony (diatonic, chromatic, neo-tonal and atonal), through literature-based analysis that is practical and accessible to students and instructors. It also covers less traditional topics such as counterpoint and musical process, and includes the non-traditional topics of popular music songwriting, jazz harmony and the blues. The accompanying companion website provides audio recordings and exercises that allow students to practice foundational theory skills. Written by experienced authors, both active classroom teachers for many years, Theory for Today's Musician is the complete and ideal theory text to enable today's student to accomplish their musical goals tomorrow.
Updated and corrected throughout, the Fourth Edition includes:
Updated repertoire, with new examples incorporated throughout the book, including more music by contemporary composers, by women, and by composers of color
Updated online resources including additional audio recordings and exercises, with QR codes in the book linking directly to online resources.
Improved and clarified coverage of serial and non-serial atonality, making it practical and student friendly
Interactive features have been simplified
Concept checks now include answer keys
The accompanying Workbook offers exercises and assignments to accompany each chapter in the book. Online Instructor and Student Resources also support the textbook and workbook, including:
For students: online tutorials with drills of basic concepts, as well as audio recordings of the musical examples
For instructors: An Instructor's Manual with answer keys and guides to using the textbook and workbook in a course.
This discounted textbook and workbook PACKAGE (978-1-041-04383-6) contains both the textbook and the workbook:
Theory for Today's Musician, Fourth Edition TEXTBOOK (HB: 978-1-032-51995-1)
Theory for Today's Musician, Fourth Edition WORKBOOK (PB: 978-1-032-51991-3)
Contents
PART ONE: IN LIEU OF FUNDAMENTALS / 1 Assorted Preliminaries / 2 Intervals / PART TWO: DIATONIC HARMONY / 3 Basic Harmonic Structures /4 Musical Shorthand: Lead Sheets and Figured Bass / 5 Harmonies of the Major and Minor Scales / 6 Cadences/Harmonic Rhythm / PART THREE: MELODY / 7 Melodic Pitch and Rhythm /8 Embellishing Tones / 9 Melodic Form /PART FOUR: VOICE LEADING / 10 Melodic Principles of Part Writing: The Outer-Voice Framework / 11 The Melodic Factor in Four-Voice Part Writing: Voicing and Connecting Chords / 12 The Chorale: Part Writing with Root-Position Triads /13 Part Writing with Triads in Inversion / 14 Part Writing Seventh Chords / PART FIVE: BASIC CHROMATIC HARMONY / 15 Secondary Function I / 16 Secondary Function II / 17 Modulation I / PART SIX: COUNTERPOINT / 18 The Art of Countermelody /19 The Fugue /PART SEVEN: ADVANCED CHROMATIC HARMONY /20 Mixing Modes / 21 Altered Pre-Dominants / 22 Other Chromatic Harmonies /23 Modulation II /24 Harmonic Extensions and Chromatic Techniques / PART EIGHT: FORM / 25 Binary and Ternary Forms /26 Sonata Form /27 The Rondo / PART NINE: MUSIC IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY AND BEYOND / 28 Syntax and Vocabulary / 29 New Tonal Methods / 30 Non-Serial Atonality / 31 Serial Atonality /32 Harmonic Principles in Jazz / 33 The Blues / 34 Shaping a Song / 35 Music in the Twenty-First Century Appendix A: Pitch / Appendix B: Rhythm / Appendix C: Lead-Sheet Symbols / Appendix D: Part Writing Guidelines
