Presentation of theory with an emphasis on applications encourages students to develop creative and analytical thinking, helping them to apply processes, tonal direction, harmonic and formal function to create better performances.
Employment of a diverse repertoire inspires students and encourages them to see the theoretical structure of music they hear everyday. Selections include numerous examples of music by women and by minority composers, and from various popular music repertoires.
Use of a wide range of tonal repertoires integrates popular music into mainstream harmonic and formal theory.
Comprehensive coverage features significant discussion of melody and phrase structure, and chapters on formal types, contrapuntal genres, and the Romantic Lied along with consideration of key tonal theory including counterpoint, rhythm, form, recent analytic approaches, and chromaticism.
The general pedagogical and analytical approaches in the text are flexible and eclectic, combining functional context and Roman numerals with the study of linear procedures.
Diversity of exercise types both in the worksheets at end of each chapter, and in the Workbook, teach students to solve a variety of musical problems, applying and developing different learning processes.
Discussion of species counterpoint provides introduction to voice-leading in two voices and the concept of an outer-voice frame for later harmonic progressions.
Thorough coverage of late-Romantic chromatic harmony provides students with the means to analyze and understand the late Romantic repertoire, incorporating current theoretical and analytical research on this period.
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