Music theory remixed
Subtitle: a blended approach for the practicing musician
By: by Kevin Holm-Hudson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 883
ISBN-13: 9780199330560
Subjects: Music theory; Textbooks; Instruction and study
Description: xxvii, 883 pages : 26 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Part 1: Fundamentals and diatonic harmony. Prelude: Setting the stage : listening ; Dimensions of pitch : notation, scales, and key signatures ; Dimensions of pitch 2 : modes, intervals, consonance and dissonance ; Duration, rhythm, and meter ; Triads and seventh chords ; Diatonic chord labels ; Introduction to counterpoint and voice learning ; Forces of resolution : tendency tones, cadences, and closure ; Part writing with root : position triads ; Part writing with first-inversion triads and seventh chords ; Part writing with second-inversion triads and seventh chords; title: Part 2: Form and chromatic harmony. Melodic figuration : non-chord tones ; Motives, phrases, and periods ; Harmonic function applied : prolongation and the phrase model ; Harmonic progression and sequence ; Secondary chords and tonicization ; Mode mixture; title: Part 3: Form and chromatic harmony. Modulation 1 ; Modulation 2 ; Cannon and fugue ; Binary and ternary forms ; Sonata form ; Rondo ; Variation forms ; Chromaticism 1 : the Neapolitan chord and augmented sixth chords; title: Part 4: Advanced chromatic harmony and contemporary techniques. Alternations and additions to triads and seventh chords ; Further chromatic enhancements ; Modulation 3 ; Contemporary techniques 1 ; Contemporary techniques 2 ; Contemporary techniques 3 ; The stories we could tell : musical narrativity and intertextuality; title: Online appendix: Answers to self-tests.