Student Workbook to Accompany Graduate Review of Tonal Theory: A Recasting of Common Practice Harmony, Form, and Counterpoint

by Steven G. Laitz, Christopher Bartlette

This Student Workbook accompanies Graduate Review of Tonal Theory . Authors Steven G. Laitz and Christopher Bartlette have devised sixty one diverse exercise sets that correlate with material in the text. These assignments include writing and analytical exercises that enable students to further integrate harmony and counterpoint through visual and aural tasks. These exercises begin at the introductory level and progress incrementally in difficulty and complexity. There is also a separate section of keyboard activities at the end of the workbook.

Designed to accommodate graduate review courses of various lengths, the workbook's assignments are numbered discretely, leaving instructors free to adapt the workbook to best suit their courses. A DVD packaged with the text features recordings by students and faculty from the Eastman School of Music. Icons in the workbook indicate which examples are recorded and where to find them on the DVD; there is also a full track listing at the end of the textbook. The nearly four hours of excerpts and complete pieces on the DVD provide students and instructors with immediate access to hundreds of examples drawn from more than three centuries of music.

288 pages, Paperback

First published March 27, 2009

About the author

Eastman School of Musi
Associate Professor of Theory
Affiliate faculty, Chamber Music Department

Interim Associate Dean of Graduate Studies, Fall 2009 Semester

BA, MA, University of California-Riverside; PhD, Eastman. Piano studies with Rebecca Penneys, Donna Turner Smith, and Leigh Unger; harpsichord studies with William Sherwood. Numerous lecture recitals and solo and chamber music recitals. Research interests in 19th-century music and pedagogy. Publications in Theory and Practice and Integral. Author, Developing the Complete Musician: An Integrated Approach to Theory, Analysis and Listening, Oxford University Press (July 2003). Member of Society for Music Theory. Faculty member, Chaffey College (1979-80), Eastman (1989-).

Reviews

[Nicolas Andrade · Rating 5 out of 5]

Is an excellent practice of a very complete review.

[Erin Christine · Rating 2 out of 5]

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