Theory for Today's Musician

Name: Theory for Today's Musician
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ISBN: 9780415663328

ISBN-10: 0415663326

ISBN-13: 9780415663328

Edition: 2nd 2014 (Revised)

Authors: Ralph Turek, Daniel McCarthy

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Theory for Today's Musician, Second 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…

Book details

List price: $76.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 1/31/2014
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 720
Size: 8.50" wide x 10.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 3.542
Language: English




In Lieu of Fundamentals



Assorted Preliminaries



Intervals



Diatonic Harmonies



Basic Harmonic Structures



Musical Shorthand: Lead Sheets and Figured Bass



Harmonies of the Major and Minor Scales



Cadences/ Harmonic Rhythm



Melody



Melodic Pitch and Rhythm



Embellishing Tones



Melodic Form



Voice Leading



Melodic Principles of Part Writing/The Outer Framework



The Melodic Factor in Four-Voice Part Writing/Voicing and Connecting Chords



The Chorale/Part Writing with Root-Position Triads



Part-Writing with Triads in Inversion



Part-Writing Seventh Chords



Basic Chromatic Harmony



Secondary Function I



Secondary Function II



Modulation I



Counterpoint



The Art of Countermelody



The Fugue



Advanced Chromatic Harmony



Mixing Modes



Altered Pre-Dominants



Other Chromatic Harmonies



Modulation II



Harmonic Extensions and Chromatic Techniques



Form



Binary and Ternary Forms



Introduction to Sonata Form



Introduction to the Rondo



Music in the Twentieth-Century and Beyond



Syntax and Vocabulary



New Tonal Methods



Atonality and Serialism



Harmonic Principles in Jazz



The Blues



Shaping a Song



Pitch



Rhythm



Basic Lead-Sheet Symbols



Part-Writing Guidelines


Glossary Credits


Index