Description
Theory Essentials for Today’s Musician offers a review of music theory that speaks directly and engagingly to modern students. Rooted in the tested pedagogy of Theory for Today’s Musician, the authors have distilled and reorganized the concepts from the thirty-three chapters of their original textbook into twenty-one succinct, modular chapters that move from the core elements of harmony to further topics in form and 20th-century music. A broad coverage of topics and musicals styles—including examples drawn from popular music—is organized into four key parts:
- Basic Tools
- Chromatic Harmony
- Form and Analysis
- The 20th Century and Beyond
Theory Essentials features clear and jargon-free (yet rigorous) explanations appropriate for students at all levels, ensuring comprehension of concepts that are often confusing or obscure. An accompanying workbook provides corresponding exercises, while a companion website presents streaming audio examples. This concise and reorganized all-in-one package—which can be covered in a single semester for a graduate review, or serve as the backbone for a briefer undergraduate survey—provides a comprehensive, flexible foundation in the vital concepts needed to analyze music.
PURCHASING OPTIONS
- Textbook and Workbook Package (Paperback): 9781138098756
- Textbook Only (Hardback): 9781138708815
- Textbook Only (Paperback): 9781138708822
- Textbook Only (eBook): 9781315201122
- Workbook Only (Paperback): 9781138098749
- Workbook Only (eBook): 9781315103839
Table of Contents
PART ONE: BASIC TOOLS
Chaper 1: Elements of Diatonic Harmony
Chapter 2: Cadences and Harmonic Rhythm
Chapter 3: The Outer-Voice Framework/Embellishing Tones
Chapter 4: Part Writing and Chorale Analysis I
Chapter 5: Part Writing and Chorale Analysis II
Chapter 6: Part Writing and Chorale Analysis III
PART TWO: CHROMATIC HARMONY
Chapter 7: Secondary Function
Chapter 8: Modulation I
Chapter 9: Mixing Modes
Chapter 10: Altered Pre-Dominants and Dominants
Chapter 11: Modulation II
Chapter 12: Harmonic Extensions and Chromatic Techniques
PART THREE: FORM AND ANALYSIS
Chapter 13: Melodic Form
Chapter 14: Contrapuntal Forms
Chapter 15: Small Forms
Chapter 16: Sonata Form
Chapter 17: Rondo
PART FOUR: THE 20TH CENTURY AND BEYOND
Chapter 18: Syntax and Vocabulary
Chapter 19: New Tonal Methods
Chapter 20: Non-Serial Atonality
Chapter 21: Serial Atonality
Appendix A: Scales and Intervals
Appendix B: Rhythm
Appendix C: Basic Harmonic Structures
Appendix D: Part-Writing Guidelines
