Description
Book SynopsisTheory for Todayâs Musician, Third 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 todayâs 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), with 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 interactive exercises that a
Table of Contents
1 Assorted Preliminaries / 2 Intervals / 3 Basic Harmonic Structures / 4 Musical Shorthand: Lead Sheets and Figured Bass / 5 Harmonies of the Major and Minor Scales / 6 Cadences/Harmonic Rhythm / 7 Melodic Pitch and Rhythm / 8 Embellishing Tones / 9 Melodic Form / 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 / 15 Secondary Function I /16 Secondary Function II /17 Modulation I /18 The Art of Countermelody / 19 The Fugue /20 Mixing Modes / 21 Altered Pre-Dominants /22 Other Chromatic Harmonies /23 Modulation II / 24 Harmonic Extensions and Chromatic Techniques / 25 Binary and Ternary Forms /26 Sonata Form / 27 The Rondo / 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 / Appendix A: Pitch / Appendix B: Rhythm
