Workbook for Advanced Harmony: Theory and Practice

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Workbook for Advanced Harmony: Theory and Practice Details

From the Back Cover From modulation to twentieth-century serial composition, this companion volume to "ELEMENTARY HARMONY, Fifth Edition" completes the study of eighteenth-century and nineteenth-century harmony. The text concludes first with a chapter on the music of Claude Debussy, serving as a transition to the final three chapters designed as an introduction to twentieth-century music. Author Robert W. Ottman presents a wide variety of music examples from music literature and applies material learned to written and keyboard/harmony study programs. ADVANCED HARMONY, Fifth Edition also includes step-by-step suggestions for analysis of seemingly difficult harmonic problems and, in twentieth-century music, detailed instruction in the use and analysis of the twelve-tone method of music composition. NEW-Extensive rewriting and reorganization of text materials designed to improve their clarity and to simplify their application to analysis and to writing projects. NEW-Additional music examples, including compositions by women composers. NEW-Additional exercises with bass line only given as each new harmonic study is presented. NEW-Revised terminology in chapters on music form and on diminished seventh chords. NEW-References to the Workbook where parallel assignments include given answers. NEW-References to musical selections on an accompanying CD. Read more