Author: Matt74
Date: 2014-08-21 20:00
I am looking for suggestions for a college level music theory text. The top two recommended books seem to be the following, although I would welcome more:
Piston: "Harmony"
Kotska, Payne: "Tonal Harmony"
Requirements:
1. Needs to be something I can do on my own, without help.
2. Text should emphasize clarity and succinctness over encyclopedic scope.
3. Should focus on Classical period. (i.e. Mozart)
4. Should have exercises WITH AN ANSWER KEY, so that I can check myself.
5. Keyboard requirements should be modest: I will not always have access to a keyboard, and want to focus on theory, not my piano playing. I would love to be a concert pianist, but one can only do so much!
6. If it comes with a CD recording of examples from the texts, all the better. At the very least the examples should be from well known works, so that I can easily get a recording or look it up on Youtube. I really do need to hear the stuff though, not just look at it on paper.
Non-Requirements:
1. Does not have to be "up to date".
2. Does not need to cover 20th c.
FYI:
I went to music school for two years, but the combined sight singing / dictation / theory class I took (twice) didn't help much. There was no instruction of sight singing or dictation. All of the written part was analyzing Bach Chorales and realizing figured bass on paper, which I found very confusing. I'm not opposed to it, it's just that it didn't work for me at the time. The text was written by a member of the faculty. While i'm sure he knew his counterpoint and his Bach inside and out, I didn't learn much. ;^P
Thank you!
- Matthew Simington
Post Edited (2014-08-21 20:18)
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