Author: Tony Llewellyn
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781482750089
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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If you've been looking for a book on music theory that doesn't require you to learn Italian or rules of harmony that don't relate to most modern music, then this is the book for you. Contemporary Music Theory does not assume that you can read music or that you even want to. Many modern musicians have a highly developed ability to play by ear as well as advanced manual dexterity. Yet, by themselves these are not enough. These abilities need to be coupled with an understanding of contemporary music theory that provides the framework on which to build great playing techniques. Starting at the very basics of scale construction, Contemporary Music Theory begins by teaching you how different keys are formed, as well as key signature patterns. Building on that information, you will learn about scale degrees and chord construction including majors and minors (and their compounds), augmented and diminished chords, half-diminished, and more. The difference between diatonic and chromatic chords is then explained as understanding this will form an important foundation in improvisation theory. From there, various kinds of chord substitution are explained, including extended chords, cut chords, altered chords and progressional substitutes. Finally, learn how to apply improvisation theory in your playing as Contemporary Music Theory explains how the various scales - including major, minor, pentatonic, blues, modal scales, and more - are applied to various chord structures. If you want a good understanding of modern music theory, this book is essential.
Author: Jon Fitzgerald
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780646375267
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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Author: Mark Harrison
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 1476827699
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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(Piano). The Music Theory series is designed from the ground-up to explain the terminology and musical structures needed for modern applications. Level One is an introductory course which covers music notation, key signatures, basic scales, intervals, modes, diatonic relationships and 3-and 4-part chords. Includes reference appendices, a complete glossary of terms, and hundreds of written theory exercises with answers.
Author: Irène Deliège
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131716069X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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This collection of essays and interviews addresses important theoretical, philosophical and creative issues in Western art music at the end of the twentieth- and the beginning of the twenty-first centuries. Edited by Max Paddison and Irène Deliège, the book offers a wide range of international perspectives from prominent musicologists, philosophers and composers, including Célestin Deliège, Pascal Decroupet, Richard Toop, Rudolf Frisius, Alastair Williams, Herman Sabbe, François Nicolas, Marc Jimenez, Anne Boissière, Max Paddison, Hugues Dufourt, Jonathan Harvey, and new interviews with Pierre Boulez, Brian Ferneyhough, Helmut Lachenmann, and Wolfgang Rihm. Part I is mainly theoretical in emphasis. Issues addressed include the historical rationalization of music and technology, new approaches to the theorization of atonal harmony in the wake of Spectralism, debates on the 'new complexity', the heterogeneity, pluralism and stylistic omnivorousness that characterizes music in our time, and the characterization of twentieth-century and contemporary music as a 'search for lost harmony'. The orientation of Part II is mainly philosophical, examining concepts of totality and inclusivity in new music, raising questions as to what might be expected from an autonomous contemporary musical logic, and considering the problem of the survival of the avant-garde in the context of postmodernist relativism. As well as analytic philosophy and cognitive psychology, critical theory features prominently, with theories of social mediation in music, new perspectives on the concept of musical material in Adorno's late aesthetic theory, and a call for 'an aesthetics of risk' in contemporary art as a means 'to reassert the essential role of criticism, of judgment, and of evaluation as necessary conditions to bring about a real public debate on the art of today'. Part III offers creative perspectives, with new essays and interviews from important contemporary composers who have mad
Author: Bryan Parkhurst
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000916987
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 363
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Kevin Korsyn is a renowned music theorist, musicologist, and pedagogue who has taught at the University of Michigan since 1992. He has published widely and influentially in areas as diverse as Beethoven and Brahms studies, chromatic tonality, disciplinarity and metatheory, history of theory, musical meaning and hermeneutics, poststructuralism (deconstruction, intertextuality, etc.), and Schenkerian theory and analysis. Because of the scope and caliber of his published work, and also his legacy as a pedagogue, Korsyn has had a profound impact on the field of music theory, along with the related fields of historical musicology and aesthetics. This book, a festschrift for Korsyn, comprises essays that constellate around his numerous scholarly foci. Represented in the volume are not only familiar music-theoretical topics such as chromaticism, form, Schenker, and text-music relations, but also various interdisciplinary topics such as deconstruction, disability studies, German Idealism, posthumanism, and psychoanalysis. The book thus reflects the increasingly multifaceted intellectual landscape of contemporary music theory.
Author: Jeff Bratz
Publisher: HarmonyTabs Music
ISBN: 1961735032
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 149
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“An Incomplete Crash Course in Contemporary Music Theory: The Fundamentals” is a comprehensive guide providing an accessible introduction to music theory fundamentals. You will embark on a journey through the essential elements of music, exploring notes and duration, counting, the imaginary bar line, rests, time signatures, clefs, key signatures, and more. This book covers crucial concepts like enharmonic equivalents, scales, and intervals. You will also explore the relationship between notes and intervals, distinguishing major and perfect intervals from minor, diminished, augmented, and compound. This book also includes a valuable musical cheat sheet, serving as a quick reference to essential theory concepts, and offers access to online audio and video examples to further enhance the learning experience. “An Incomplete Crash Course in Contemporary Music Theory: The Fundamentals” aims to empower musicians, students, and enthusiasts alike by providing them with a solid foundation. Whether you’re a beginner seeking a clear introduction or an experienced musician looking to fill in the gaps, this book is an invaluable resource that will elevate your understanding of music theory and enhance your overall musical proficiency.
Author: Judith Irene Lochhead
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781138824331
Category : Choke
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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This book studies recent music in the western classical tradition, offering a critique of current analytical/theoretical approaches and proposing alternatives. It addresses the fringe status of recent music and demonstrates that existing descriptive languages and analytical approaches don't provide adequate tools to address it in productive terms. Lochhead offers new ways to conceive works, their structurings of musical experience and time, and the procedures and goals of analytic close reading, defining tools that engage the perspectives of composers, performers, and listeners. This book will be of interest to scholars of classical music, and music theory, musicology, and aural culture.
Author: Benjamin Boretz
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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Author: John Paynter
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415086950
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 616
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Author: Keith Negus
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 9780819563101
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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A lively contribution to the debates that are central to popular music studies.
