Music for Analysis: Examples from the Common Practice Period and the Twentieth Centuryincludes CD [With CD]

by Thomas E. Benjamin, Michael E. Horvit, Michael M. Horvit, et al.

Book Overview

This superbly varied collection offers more than 400 pieces of music from the Baroque period to the present. Selected by Thomas Benjamin, Michael Horvit, and Robert Nelson--three nationally respected composers and music theory teachers--the selections enable students to analyze a wide variety of genres, styles, textures, and composers that illustrate standard usage and idiomatic procedures. Featuring both excerpts and many complete pieces, Music for...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195188152
• ISBN13: 9780195188158
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 10.7" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Good Job

Nice and speedy. Only took a few days and it came in great condition. Thanks

Just Got It

Received it in a timely manner, a lot different from other theory books I've seen but looks like it'll be good in class. Haven't used it yet, but gives many, many musical examples with a few questions at the beginning of each section.

Good for teaching or study!

This book is organized by terms of harmonic content. The book is divided into three sections: Diatonic Materials, Chromatic Materials, and Twentieth Century Materials. It contains an analytic checklist and sample analysis that can be used as a guide to the student. An index of composers makes it easy to study the musical style of a particular composer. The excerpts can be played by any competant keyboard player. This book contains mostly excerpts, but a few sections that contain a complete piece or movement of a piece. The selections are not analyzed, which makes for fun practice at analyzing them yourself!