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| Theory for Today's Musician, Second Edition from Routledge | ||||||
This broadly comprehensive text merges traditional topics such as part-writing and harmony (diatonic, chromatic, neo-tonal and atonal), with less traditional topics such as counterpoint and musical process, and includes the non-traditional topics of popular music songwriting, jazz harmony and the blues. Written by an experienced textbook author and new co-author, both active classroom teachers for many years, Theory for Today’s Musician is the complete and ideal theory text to enable today’s student to accomplish their musical goals tomorrow. New Features to the Second Edition: * An expanded unit on form that includes introductory chapters on sonata & rondo, to prepare students for learning form * New "Back to Basics" online drills, keyed to the text, allowing students to brush up their fundamentals as needed * New musical examples, including over 80 new musical excerpts from both art and popular music repertoires * Expanded in-chapter exercises to promote and facilitate classroom interaction * Carefully edited in response to market demands to create a more streamlined, flexible text * New audio of musical examples (for both text and workbook), 50% re-recorded for improved audio quality * An updated and relocated Chapter 33 on song composition in the jazz and popular folk styles, applying principles of text setting, melody composition/harmonization * Companion website that houses online tutorial with drills of basic concepts For more information, visit http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415730365/. |
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