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

Steven G Laitz; Christopher Bartlette

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195376986 ISBN 13: 9780195376982

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2009

Synopsis

Building on the same pedagogy that informed The Complete Musician, this Graduate Review of Tonal Theory is the first book to review music theory at a level that is sophisticated enough for beginning graduate students. Steven G. Laitz and Christopher Bartlette address students as colleagues, and thoroughly explore appealing and practical analytical applications. The text also provides a means to discuss the perception and cognition, the analysis and performance, and the composition and reception of common-practice tonal music. Marked by clarity and brevity, Graduate Review of Tonal Theory presents crucial concepts and procedures found in the majority of tonal pieces.

Distinctive Features

*Integrates two- to three-page "Analytical Extensions" at the end of each chapter, which introduce an additional topic through one or two works from the repertoire, and then develop the topic in a model analysis
*Synthesizes the essential concepts of music theory and pieces from the repertoire that expand upon and refine the analytical applications taught in the undergraduate theory curriculum
*Includes an in-text DVD with recordings by Eastman students and faculty of musical examples from the text and analytical exercises from the workbook

Also Available:
A workbook for students (978-0-19-537699-9) that can be packaged with the text at a significant savings! (Package ISBN: 978-0-19-538628-8). This invaluable resource is organized by chapter into discrete assignments (3-5 per chapter), each progressing from short, introductory analytical and writing exercises to more involved tasks. The workbook also includes an appendix of keyboard exercises.

About this title

About the Author

Steven G. Laitz is Associate Professor of Music Theory and Affiliate Faculty Member in Chamber Music at the Eastman School of Music, and serves on the piano faculty at the Chautauqua Institution. He has received various teaching awards, has presented and published work on nineteenth-century music and pedagogy, and is the author of The Complete Musician: An Integrated Approach to Tonal Theory, Analysis, and Listening, Second Edition (OUP, 2007).

Christopher Bartlette is Assistant Professor of Music at Binghamton University. His research in music cognition and performance has led to articles and presentations at national and international conferences in music theory, perception, and cognition.

Review

"I would point to the extremely solid conceptual grounding; the musical utility of the long-range thinking it encourages; the logical progression of topics; the clarity and efficiency of presentation; the quality of analytical insight; and the possibility of having everything you need in one
place. The workbook provides a very impressive range of tasks-much more varied and interesting than one usually finds. One gets the sense that the author[s] understand exactly the nature of graduate review courses."

--Roman Ivanovitch, Indiana University

"[The workbook] exercises are inspirationally clever. . . . I like the wide variety of 'real music' examples as well and I suspect my grad students would be equally appreciative. . . . I like the summaries, point-by-point reminders, and suggestions about matters such as how to figure a bass or how
to write a sequence. Students will find such lists to be both very clear and very comforting."-Neil Minturn, University of Missouri

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0195376986
• ISBN 13: 9780195376982
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 288