Graduate Review of Tonal Theory: A Recasting of Common-Practice Harmony, Form, and Counterpoint - Hardcover

Laitz, Steven G; Barlette, Chris

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195376986 ISBN 13: 9780195376982

Publisher: OUP USA, 2009

Synopsis

This text is the first graduate music theory review designed specifically to address the one-semester course for beginning graduate students in music. Based on The Complete Musician, the text is more than a shortened version of an undergraduate tonal harmony text; it addresses students as colleagues and explores analytical applications that are appealing and practical, extending beyond the undergraduate level. The text provides a means to discuss the perception and cognition, the analysis and performance, and the composition and reception of common-practice tonal music.
The clarity and brevity of this text relies on the presentation of only those crucial concepts and procedures that are manifested in the vast majority of tonal pieces. The only text exercises are at chapter ends: two- to three-page "Analytical extensions," which introduce one new topic through one or two works from the repertoire, and then develop the topic in a model analysis. Appendixes will include keyboard exercises, model composition strategies and assignments, and sample solutions.
An accompanying workbook is organized by chapter into discrete assignments, each progressing from short, introductory analytical and writing exercises to more-involved tasks. Included is a DVD of recordings by the Eastman students and faculty of musical examples from the text and analytical exercises from the workbook.

About this title

About the Author

Steve Laitz is Associate Professor and currently chairs the Theory Department and Eastman's new Bachelor of Musical Arts major. He also serves as an Affiliate Faculty Member in Eastman's Chamber Music Department and on the piano faculty at the Chautauqua Institution. He has received various teaching awards, including Eastman's Eisenhart Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching By a Faculty Member. He is the author of The Complete Musician: An Integrated Approach to Tonal Theory, Analysis, and Listening, Second Edition.

Chris Bartlette is Assistant Professor of Music Theory at Baylor University. He has published articles in the journal Music Perception and presented papers at Society for Music Theory and Society for Music Perception and Cognition national conferences.

Edition details

• Publisher: OUP USA
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195376986
• ISBN 13: 9780195376982
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288