The complete musician : an integrated approach to tonal theory, analysis, and listening /

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Author / Creator:Laitz, Steven G. (Steven Geoffrey)
Edition:2nd ed.
Imprint:New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Description:xxiv, 888 p. : ill., music ; 27 cm. + 2 DVDs (4 3/4 in.)
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6429293
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ISBN:0195301080 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780195301083 (cloth : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes indexes.
System requirements for additional content: MP3 player.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Terms and Concepts are included at the end of every chapter
  • Part 1. The Foundation Of Tonal Music
  • 1. The Pitch Realm: Tonality, Notation, and Scales
  • Charting Musical Sound: Staff and Clef
  • Pitch and Pitch Class
  • The Division of Musical Space: Intervals
  • Accidentals
  • Scales
  • Enharmonicism
  • Scale Degree Numbers and Names
  • Specific Scale Types: Major and Minor
  • Building Scales in the Major Mode
  • Key Signatures and the Circle of Fifths
  • Building Scales in the Minor Mode
  • Key Signatures in Minor
  • Relative Major and Minor Keys
  • Model Analysis: Tonality and Hierarchy in Bach's Violin Partita No3, Prelude
  • 2. Pulse, Rhythm, and Meter
  • Rhythm and Durational Symbols
  • Meter
  • Accent in Music
  • Temporal Accents
  • Nontemporal Accents
  • Beat Division and Simple and Compound Meters
  • The Meter Signature
  • Asymmetrical Meters
  • Clarifying Meter
  • More Rhythmic Procedures
  • Metrical Disturbance
  • 3. Intervals and Melody
  • Naming Intervals
  • Tips for Identifying Generic Intervals
  • Specific Interval Size
  • Transforming Intervals: Augmented and Diminished Intervals
  • Interval Inversion
  • Generating All Intervals
  • Enharmonic Intervals
  • Consonant and Dissonant Intervals
  • Melody: Characteristics, Writing, and Listening
  • Model Analysis: Mozart, Piano Sonata in A minor, K310
  • Melodic Dictation
  • 4. Controlling Consonance and Dissonance: Introduction to Two-Voice Counterpoint
  • First-Species Counterpoint
  • Contrapuntal Motions
  • Beginning and Ending the Counterpoint
  • Rules and Guidelines for First-Species (1:1) Counterpoint
  • Second Species Counterpoint
  • Weak-Beat Consonance
  • Weak-Beat Dissonance
  • Beginning and Ending Second-Species Counterpoint
  • Rules and Guidelines for Second-Species Counterpoint
  • Hearing Two-Voice Counterpoint
  • Review
  • 5. Triads, Inversions, Figured Bass, and Harmonic Analysis
  • Triads
  • Voicing Triads: Spacing and Doubling
  • Triad Inversion
  • Figured Bass
  • Analyzing and Composing Using Figured Bass
  • Additional Figured-Bass Conventions: Abbreviations and Chromaticism
  • Triads and the Scale: Harmonic Analysis
  • Roman Numerals
  • Introduction to Harmonic Analysis
  • Harmony and the Keyboard
  • 6. Seventh Chords, Musical Texture, and Harmonic Analysis
  • Musical Characteristics of Seventh Chords
  • Inverted Seventh Chords
  • Analytical Tips
  • Seventh Chords and Harmonic Analysis
  • Lead-Sheet Notation
  • Musical Texture
  • Model Analyses: Beethoven Violin Sonata No3 in Eb major, Op12, No3, and Mozart, "Madamina" from Don Giovanni, Act 1, Scene 4
  • Summary of Part 1
  • Part 2. Merging Melody And Harmony
  • 7. Hierarchy in Music: Consonance, Unaccented Dissonance, and Melodic Fluency
  • Consonance and Dissonance
  • The Importance of Textual Analysis
  • Model Analyses: Clementine and God Save the King
  • Melodic Fluency
  • 8. Tonic and Dominant as Tonal Pillars and Introduction to Voice Leading
  • The Cadence
  • Introduction to Voice Leading
  • Texture and Register
  • Three Techniques to Create Voice Independence Within a Four-Voice Texture
  • Creating the Best Sound: Incomplete and Complete Chords, Doubling, and Spacing
  • Summary of Voice-Leading Rules and Guidelines
  • 9. The Impact of Melody, Rhythm, and Meter on Harmony, and Introduction to V7
  • The Interaction of Harmony, Melody, Meter, and Rhythm: Embellishment and Reduction
  • Embellishment and Reduction
  • The Dominant Seventh and Chordal Dissonance Part Writing with the Dominant Seventh Chord
  • Model Analysis: Beethoven, Piano Sonata in D minor, Op31, No2 "Tempest"
  • Harmonizing Florid Melodies
  • Summary
  • 10. Contrapuntal Expansions of Tonic and Dominant: Six-Three Chords
  • Contrapuntal Expansions of Tonic and Dominant: Six-Three Chords
  • Chordal Leaps in the Bass: I6 and V6
  • Neighbor Tones in the Bass (V6)
  • Second-Level Analysis
  • Writing and Playing First-Inversion Triads
  • Passing Tones in the Bass: viio6
  • Tonic Expansion with an Arpeggiating Bass: IV6
  • Dominant Expansion with Passing Tones: IV6
  • Combining First-Inversion Chords
  • Summary
  • 11. More Contrapuntal Expansions: Inversions of V7, and Introduction to Leading Tone Seventh Chords
  • V7 and Its Inversions
  • Voice Leading Inversions of V7
  • Combining Inversions of V7
  • Compositional Impact on Contrapuntal Chords
  • Leading Tone Seventh Chords: viio7 and viio7
  • Elaboration and Reduction
  • Summary of Part 2P