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Music Theory Made Relevant Designed for undergraduate music majors, Harmony in Context provides the richest possible musical context for the study of harmony, constantly encouraging students to translate what they are learning into better performances and better listening. The musical examples and anthology encompass a wide variety of different composers and repertoires. A clear and visually attractive layout, as well as the use of section and subsection headings and lists where appropriate, are essential aspects that contribute to the effective organization of this book. Recordings for all the musical examples from the literature included in both the book and the anthology are available on the book's Online Learning Center.

A concise introduction to traditional harmony in its musical and historical setting.

This volume of nine essays draws together leading scholars in anthropology, social history, musicology, and ethnomusicology to address the roles and functions of music in the Chinese ritual context. How does music, one of a constellation of essential performative elements in almost all rituals, empower an officiant, legitimate an officeholder, create a heightened state of awareness, convey a message, or produce a magical outcome, a transition, a transformation? After an introduction by the volume editors, Bell Yung proposes a theoretical framework for dealing with Chinese ritual sound. A group of three essays focuses on the music for rituals that create political and social legitimacy followed by a second group of essays considering the music associated with rites of passage. Two essays then deal with the music accompanying rituals of propitiation. In all these cases, music is seen to play a critical role, if not the core of the ritual.

Harmony Through Melody offers a robust, conservatory-style approach to music theory focused on Common Era classical works, reaching far beyond basic rudiments. The authors develop techniques and strategies for exploring the fundamental interaction of melody and counterpoint with harmony.

This workbook contains additional exercises to be used as assignments with Harmony in Context. An updated Online Learning Center includes downloadable MP3 recordings for over 380 textbook examples and over 60 pieces from the anthology, ranging from the sixteenth through twentieth centuries, providing students with first-hand listening experience in a wide range of musical genres and styles, as well as an instructor's manual, answers to the workbook questions, and additional content for instructors.

A one-year course in the principles and practice of classical harmony. Previously published by the Open University Press, this reissue contains a number of minor corrections.`...an excellent and accessible compendium of harmonic practice...includes ideas for using the keyboard to improvise in the style of a composer.' Music Teacher

This book teaches the ideas behind adding chords to melodies. It begins with basic chords and progressions, and moves to more complex ideas. With an introduction and two appendices. Two CDs of additional material.