Anthology For Musical Analysis

Containing a collection of over 200 musical compositions and movements, this book offers music theory classes illustrations of chords, voice-leading techniques, and forms. It is adaptable to any theoretical approach and to any type of curriculum, including those that combine theory study with music literature and the history of musical style.

The Musician’s Guide to Theory and Analysis is a complete package of theory and aural skills resources that covers every topic commonly taught in the undergraduate sequence. The package can be mixed and matched for every classroom, and with Norton’s new Know It? Show It! online pedagogy, students can watch video tutorials as they read the text, access formative online quizzes, and tackle workbook assignments in print or online. In its third edition, The Musician’s Guide retains the same student-friendly prose and emphasis on real music that has made it popular with professors and students alike.

A landmark collection of over 200 complete musical compositions and movements, ranging from the Middle Ages to the present, ANTHOLOGY FOR MUSICAL ANALYSIS, International Edition offers first- and second-year music theory students a wealth of illustrations of chords, voice-leading techniques, and forms, plus some material for figured-bass realization and score reading. Because this book takes no theoretical position, it is adaptable to any theoretical approach and to any type of curriculum, including those that combine theory study with music literature and the history of musical style.

Structure and Style, first published in 1962 and expanded in 1979, fills the need for new ways of analysis that put 20th-century music in perspective. It spans forms in use before 1600 through forms and techniques in use today. Anthology of Musical Forms provides musical examples of forms treated in Structure and Style. Some examples are analyzed throughout. Most are left for the student to analyze. These books reflect Leon Stein's impressive background as student, musician, and composer. Stein studied composition with Leo Sowerby, Frederick Stock (conductor of the Chicago Symphony) and orchestration with Eric DeLamarter, his assistant. He earned M. Mus and Ph.D degrees at DePaul University and was associated with its School of Music as director of the Graduate Division and chairman of the Department of Theory and Composition until his retirement in 1976. He has composed a wide variety of works, including compositions for orchestra, chamber combinations, two operas, and a violin concerto.

Hearing Form is a textbook and workbook on the subject of musical form. The goals of this book are to teach students to: identify phrase endings and cadence types in music with or without a score. identify harmonic sequence types in music with or without a score. identify modulations in music with or without a score. identify formal sections in music with or without a score. identify musical forms with or without a score. Hearing Form reviews concepts that are covered in freshman and sophomore music theory courses, such as score reading, instrumental transposition, cadences, phrase structure, harmonic sequences, modulation, and chromatic harmonies. It includes an anthology, Audio CDs, and companion website with student and instructor resources.