The music theory handbook / Marjorie Merryman.
By: Merryman, Marjorie
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BookPublisher: Fort Worth, Texas : Harcourt Brace College Pub., c1997Description: vi, 135 p. : music ; 28 cm.ISBN: 0155026623; 9780155026629.Subject(s): Music theory | Music | Theory of music & musicologyDDC classification: 781 MER
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This concise handbook offers comprehensive coverage of main topics in music theory. Instructors can elaborate on the material as appropriate to their course, while students can learn and review technical information without having to digest lengthy analyses and explanations. Unbiased and flexible, this book can be used as a primary or reference text. Topics include species and tonal counterpoint, instrumental ranges and transpositions, and a glossary of forms. Each major section ends with suggestions for analysis and further reading.
Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Part 1 Fundamentals (p. 1)
- Clefs, Grand Staff, Key Signatures (p. 1)
- Scales and Modes (p. 4)
- Intervals (p. 7)
- Major and Minor Scale Degrees (p. 9)
- Rhythm and Meter (p. 10)
- Triads (p. 14)
- Part 2 Species Counterpoint (p. 17)
- First Species (p. 18)
- Second Species (p. 21)
- Third Species (p. 23)
- Fourth Species (p. 26)
- Fifth Species (p. 30)
- Suggestions for Analysis and Further Reading (p. 31)
- Part 3 Harmony and Voice Leading (p. 33)
- Root Position, Common Tone Voice Leading (p. 34)
- Harmonic Progression (p. 36)
- Cadences (p. 37)
- Some Notes on Doubling (p. 38)
- Chords in Inversion (p. 38)
- First Inversion (p. 39)
- Use and Doubling of ii[superscript 6] Chord (Cadential) (p. 40)
- Nonharmonic Tones (p. 41)
- Second Inversion (p. 43)
- Seventh Chords--Dominant Seventh (p. 46)
- Figured Bass (p. 49)
- ii6/5 (p. 50)
- Chromaticism--Secondary Dominants (p. 51)
- Tonicization (p. 54)
- Diminished Seventh Chords (p. 56)
- Borrowed Chords or Modal Interchange (p. 58)
- Neapolitan Triad and Neapolitan Sixth (p. 60)
- Augmented Sixth Chords (p. 60)
- Other Diminished Seventh Chords--[sharp]ii[degree][superscript 7] and [sharp]vi[degree][superscript 7] (p. 62)
- Modulation (p. 63)
- Suggestions for Analysis and Further Reading (p. 65)
- Part 4 Tonal Counterpoint (p. 67)
- Melodic Line (p. 67)
- Two-Part Counterpoint (p. 69)
- Invertible Counterpoint in Two Voices (p. 73)
- Imitation and Canon (p. 75)
- Counterpoint in Three or More Parts (p. 78)
- Fugue (p. 79)
- Imitation: Real versus Tonal (p. 81)
- Suggestions for Analysis and Further Reading (p. 84)
- Part 5 Phrasing, Structure, and a Glossary of Forms (p. 87)
- Cadence Types (p. 87)
- Phrase Relationships (p. 88)
- Sequence (p. 90)
- Structural Line (p. 93)
- Form (p. 95)
- Baroque Forms, Genres, and Terms (p. 95)
- Classical Forms, Genres, and Terms (p. 98)
- Romantic Period Forms and Terms (p. 101)
- Suggestions for Analysis and Further Reading (p. 102)
- Part 6 Instrumentation: Names, Ranges, Transposition (p. 103)
- Overtone Series (p. 107)
- Suggestions for Further Reading (p. 108)
- Part 7 Keyboard Exercises (p. 109)
- Part 8 Exercises for Parts 1-4 (p. 117)
- Exercises for Part 1 (p. 117)
- Exercises for Part 2 (p. 121)
- Exercises for Part 3 (p. 124)
- Suggested Projects for Part 4 (p. 133)