Music in Theory and Practice Volume 1 https://www.mheducation.com/cover-images/Jpeg_400-high/007802515X.jpeg 9 9780078025150 This best-selling text gives music majors and minors a solid foundation in the theory of music. It strengthens their musical intuition, builds technical skills, and helps them gain interpretive insights. The goal of the text is to instruct readers on the practical application of knowledge. The analytical techniques presented are carefully designed to be clear, uncomplicated, and readily applicable to any repertoire. The two-volume format ensures exhaustive coverage and maximum support for students and faculty alike. Volume I serves as a general introduction to music theory while Volume II offers a survey of the theoretical underpinnings of musical styles and forms from Gregorian Chant through the present day. The supplemental instructor's materials provide clear-cut solutions to assignment materials. Music in Theory and Practice is a well-rounded textbook that integrates the various components of musical structure and makes them accessible to students at the undergraduate level.
Music in Theory and Practice Volume 1

Music in Theory and Practice Volume 1

9th Edition
By Bruce Benward and Marilyn Saker
ISBN10: 007802515X
ISBN13: 9780078025150
Copyright: 2015
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Preface

Introduction: The Materials of Music: Sound and Time

Part A: The Fundamentals of Music

1 Notation

2 Scales, Tonality, Key, Modes

3 Intervals and Transposition

4 Chords

Part B: The Structural Elements of Music

5 Cadences and Nonharmonic Tones

6 Melodic Organization

7 Texture and Textural Reduction

8 Species Counterpoint

9 Voice Leading in Four-Part Chorale Writing

10 Harmonic Progression and Harmonic Rhythm

11 The Dominant Seventh Chord

12 The Leading-Tone Seventh Chords

13 Nondominant Seventh Chords

14 Secondary Dominants and Leading-Tone Chords

15 Modulation

16 Two-Part (Binary) Form

17 Three-Part (Ternary) Form

Appendix A Summary of Part-Writing Practices

Appendix B Macro Analysis Symbols

Appendix C Popular Music Chord Symbols

Appendix D Expression Marks

Appendix E Instrument Ranges, Transpositions, and Foreign Names

Appendix F History

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Indexes

Musical Examples Subject Index

About the Author

Bruce Benward

Bruce Benward has been widely regarded as one of the most gifted music theory pedagogues since his textbooks first appeared in the 1960s, and has exerted a wide influence on the teaching of music theory both through his writings and through the generation of teachers that he taught. He recently retired from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Marilyn Saker

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