Theory Essentials: An Integrated Approach to Harmony, Ear Training, and Keyboard Skills: v. 1 - Softcover

Mayfield, Connie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0534572316 ISBN 13: 9780534572310

Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc, 2002

Synopsis

THEORY ESSENTIALS is a two-volume text that offers a unique, total solution to teaching music theory. Integrating all the components of the two-year music theory sequence, each volume (and its accompanying workbook) fully synthesizes the major topics in music theory with aural skills, keyboard applications, and examples from the literature. Offering terrific value, THEORY ESSENTIALS replaces the need for the four separate texts traditionally required for the music theory sequence (theory, ear training/sight singing, keyboard harmony, and an anthology). The result is a remarkable, carefully-paced synthesis of these components that moves from a solid grounding in Fundamentals through Diatonic Harmony (in Volume I), and from Secondary Function chords through Twentieth-Century Techniques (in Volume II).

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"The analysis examples are concise and to the point. . . . they allow the student to demonstrate the concept discussed in the chapter. This book is not only good for a theorist to use but it's excellent for the professor who is not a theorist by nature . . . It's a wonderful text!"

Synopsis

This text contains the information needed by the first-year college-level music student to master basic theoretical and aural skills. In the 24 chapters, Mayfield (Kansas Community College) covers notation (theory and harmony) as well as sight-singing, ear training, musicianship, and applications of theory to the keyboard. She also presents practic

Edition details

• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0534572316
• ISBN 13: 9780534572310
• Binding: Plastic Comb
• Number of pages: 422