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The Complete Musician: An Integrated Approach to Tonal Theory, Analysis, and Listening Includes 2 CDs
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 781.2
EAN: 9780195095678
Edition: Har/Com
ISBN: 0195095677
Label: Oxford University Press, USA
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 736
Publication Date: March 18, 2003
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Studio: Oxford University Press, USA
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Editorial Review:
Bringing together the analytical, aural, and tactile activities that comprise a tonal theory curriculum, The Complete Musician relies on a diverse repertoire and innovative exercises to integrate theory (writing and analysis), skills (singing, playing, and dictation), and music-making outside
the theory class.
Key Features
* Common practice literature is the driving force of the text and comprises the bulk of the harmonic dictation component.
* Musical examples range from Schutz to Scriabin and from solo vocal and instrumental music to orchestral ensembles. They include popular and folk music.
* Topics covered run the gamut from rudiments to compositional processes of the late nineteenth century.
* Exercises are interspersed throughout and increase in pedagogical complexity, ranging from passive identification activities to active composition.
* The 2 CDs packaged with each text include more than 300 recorded textbook examples performed by students and faculty from the Eastman School of Music. (A separate set of 8 CDs offers nearly 2000 more examples--from solo piano to full orchestra--of the exercises in the text and workbooks, played
by the same performers.)
* The premise of the text is that students can learn to hear, comprehend, and model the structure and syntax of the music they love, and that simple processes, which are fleshed out in diverse contexts, underlie tonal music.
An innovative text, The Complete Musician makes the study of tonal theory as engaging and as musical as possible. It provides students with a strong foundation in the principles of writing, analyzing, hearing, singing, and playing tonal harmony and enables them to understand the most important
musical forms. Students can then apply these principles to their performances and to any tonal pieces that they encounter throughout their musical careers.
Accompanying Supplements
Instructor's Manual: 0-19-509568-5
Student Workbook, Volume I: 0-19-516059-2
Student Workbook, Volume II: 0-19-516060-6
8-CD Set: 0-19-509569-3
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Excellent textbook...
...comprehensive, detailed but nevertheless succinct and to the point...the writing is a bit dry but after all it is a textbook.
Rating:  - An excellent linear approach to common-practice harmony
This book is best for those who have already taken a full course in tonal harmony and understand it well from a functional perspective but want to understand it better from a linear perspective.
It is a very complete course in common practice tonal harmony. It is in many ways an updated successor to Aldwell & Schachter in that it pays attention to every minute detail of voice leading and part-writing. Varieties of V-I take over 100 pages alone. For those interesting in mastering ... Read More
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