Techniques and Materials of Music : From the Common Practice Period Through the Twentieth Century

by Benjamin, Thomas; Horvit, Michael; Nelson, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780495500544
• ISBN10: 0495500542
• Edition: 7th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-01-30
• Publisher: Cengage Learning

Summary

Designed to serve as a primary text for the first two years of college music theory, TECHNIQUES AND MATERIALS OF MUSIC covers all the basics of composition-including harmony, melody, and musical form. The authors present essential materials of common-practice music and an overview of 20th century techniques. Numerous hands-on exercises promote students' memorization and retention of key concepts. And the text's concise outline format, which has been enhanced for this edition, allows instructors maximum flexibility in choosing which materials, concepts, and techniques to emphasize in their course. An e-Workbook in PDF format provides more than 200 pages of exercises to complement TECHNIQUES AND MATERIALS OF MUSIC, 7th Edition.

Table of Contents

Rudiments

The Great Staff and Piano Keyboard

Accidentals

Intervals

Major and Minor Scales

Key Signatures

Triads

Meter and Rhythm

Diatonic Materials

Triads in Root Position

The Tonic Triad in Root Position

Connection of Tonic and Dominant Triads in Root Position

The Dominant Seventh Chord in Root Position

Connection of Tonic and Subdominant Triads in Root Position

Connection of Subdominant and Dominant Triads in Root Position

Cadences Employing the Tonic, Subdominant, and Dominant Triads in Root Position

The Cadential Tonic Six-Four Chord

Tonic, Subdominant, and Dominant Triads in First Inversion

The Supertonic Triad

Inversions of the Dominant Seventh Chord

Linear (Embellishing) Six-Four and Other Chords

Submediant and Mediant Triads in Root Position and First Inversion

The Leading Tone Triad

Variant Qualities of Triads

The Sequence

The Supertonic Seventh Chord

The Leading Tone Seventh Chord

Other Diatonic Seventh Chords

Chromatic Materials

Secondary (Applied, Borrowed) Dominants

Modulation

Linear (Embellishing) Diminished Seventh Chords

The Neapolitan Triad

Augmented Sixth Chords

Modulation by Other Means

Ninth Chords

Twentieth -Century Materials

Twentieth-Century Techniques: General Comments

Further Concepts for Analysis

Rhythmic and Metric Devices

Tertian Harmony

The Diatonic (Church) Modes

Pandiatonicism

Exotic (Artificial, Synthetic) Scales

Quartal and Secondal Harmony

Polyharmony and Polytonality

Free Atonality

Twelve-Tone Serialism

Additional Contemporary Procedures

Reference Materials

Musical Calligraphy

The Harmonic Series

Nonharmonic (Nonchord) Tones

Relative and Linear Motion

Guidelines for Voice Leading in Strict Four-Part Writing

Guidelines for Doubling in Strict Four-Part Writing

Checklist for Part Writing

Chord Functions in Tonal Music

Figured-Bass Symbols

Procedure for Harmonizing a Figured Bass

Procedure for Harmonizing a Melody

Models for Expansion and Elaboration

Cadence and Phrase Structure

Typical Phrase Variants

The Motive

The Sequence

Textures

An Introduction to Tonal Melody

An Introduction to Tonal Counterpoint

Form

Checklist for Analysis

Composition Checklist

Instrumental Ranges and Transpositions

Bibliography

Index

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