Jason W Solomon

Music Theory Essentials

A Streamlined Approach to Fundamentals, Tonal Harmony, and Post-Tonal Materials

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Music Theory Essentials offers an antidote to music theory textbooks that are overly long and dense. Focusing on the essentials, this text provides a clear-cut guide to the key concepts of music theory.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 776g
• ISBN-13: 9781138052505
• ISBN-10: 1138052507
• Artikelnr.: 56928778

Autorenporträt

Jason W. Solomon is Associate Professor of Music at Agnes Scott College, Georgia, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Part I: Fundamentals
Chapter 1: Pitch and Notation
Chapter 2: Intervals
Chapter 3: Scales and Melody
Chapter 4: Keys
Chapter 5: Chords
Chapter 6: Musical Time
Chapter 7: Introduction to Voice Leading and Counterpoint
Part II: Diatonic Harmony
Chapter 8: Four-Part Voice Leading
Chapter 9: Nonchord Tones
Chapter 10: Tonal Function, Syntax, and Prolongation
Chapter 11: Triad Inversions
Chapter 12: Seventh Chords
Chapter 13: Motive, Phrase, Cadence, and Period Structure
Chapter 14: Harmonic Sequences
Part III: Chromatic Harmony
Chapter 15: Secondary Dominants and Tonicization
Chapter 16: Modulation I: Phrase Modulation and Diatonic Pivot Chords
Chapter 17: Modal Mixture
Chapter 18: The Neapolitan and Augmented Sixth Chords
Chapter 19: Modulation II: Chromatic Pivot Chords, Enharmonic
Reinterpretation, and Common-Tone Modulation
Chapter 20: Dominant Ninth Chords, Altered Dominants, and Embellishing
Chords
Part IV: Post-Tonal and Popular Materials
Chapter 21: The Dissolution of the Tonal System
Chapter 22: New Pitch Collections
Chapter 23: Centricity and Harmony
Chapter 24: Set Theory
Chapter 25: Serialism
Chapter 26: Introduction to Jazz and Pop Harmony
Appendix: List of Set Classes
Credits
Index of Musical Examples
Index of Terms and Concepts