This best-selling text gives music majors and minors a solid foundation in the theory of music. It strengthens their musical intuition, builds technical skills, and helps them gain interpretive insights. The goal of the text is to instruct readers on the practical application of knowledge. The analytical techniques presented are carefully designed to be clear, uncomplicated, and readily applicable to any repertoire.
The two-volume format ensures exhaustive coverage and maximum support for students and faculty alike. Volume I serves as a general introduction to music theory while Volume II offers a survey of the theoretical underpinnings of musical styles and forms from Gregorian Chant through the present day. The supplemental instructor's materials provide clear-cut solutions to assignment materials. Music in Theory and Practice is a well-rounded textbook that integrates the various components of musical structure and makes them accessible to students at the undergraduate level.
Preface Introduction: The Materials of Music: Sound and TimePart A: The
Fundamentals of Music 1 Notation2 Scales, Tonality, Key, Modes3 Intervals and
Transposition4 ChordsPart B: The Structural Elements of Music 5 Cadences and
Nonharmonic Tones6 Melodic Organization7 Texture and Textural Reduction8
Species Counterpoint9 Voice Leading in Four-Part Chorale Writing10 Harmonic
Progression and Harmonic Rhythm11 The Dominant Seventh Chord12 The
Leading-Tone Seventh Chords13 Nondominant Seventh Chords14 Secondary
Dominants and Leading-Tone Chords15 Modulation16 Two-Part (Binary) Form17
Three-Part (Ternary) FormAppendix A Summary of Part-Writing PracticesAppendix
B Macro Analysis SymbolsAppendix C Popular Music Chord SymbolsAppendix D
Expression MarksAppendix E Instrument Ranges, Transpositions, and Foreign
NamesAppendix F HistoryCreditsIndexesMusical ExamplesSubject Index
Bruce Benward has been widely regarded as one of the most gifted music theory pedagogues since his textbooks first appeared in the 1960s, and has exerted a wide influence on the teaching of music theory both through his writings and through the generation of teachers that he taught. He recently retired from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
