Ralph Turek, Daniel Mccarthy

Theory for Today's Musician Textbook (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Theory for Today's Musician, Fourth Edition, recasts the scope of the traditional music theory course to meet the demands of the professional music world, in a style that speaks directly and engagingly to today's music student. It uses classical, folk, popular, and jazz repertoires with clear explanations that link music theory to musical applications. The authors help prepare students by not only exploring how music theory works in art music, but how it functions within modern music, and why this knowledge will help them become better composers, music teachers, performers, and recording engineers.

This broadly comprehensive text merges traditional topics such as part-writing and harmony (diatonic, chromatic, neo-tonal, and atonal), through literature-based analysis that is practical and accessible to students and instructors. It also covers less traditional topics such as counterpoint and musical process, and includes the non-traditional topics of popular music songwriting, jazz harmony, and the blues. The accompanying instructor and student resources provide audio recordings and exercises that allow students to practice foundational theory skills. Written by experienced authors, both active classroom teachers for many years, Theory for Today's Musician is the complete and ideal theory text to enable today's student to accomplish their musical goals tomorrow.

Updated and corrected throughout, the Fourth Edition includes:

• Replacement of "Assorted Preliminaries" with "Pitch, Rhythm, Scales, and Keys" as new Chapter 1
• Revised coverage of atonality
• Interactive text features simplified to a single type: "Concept Checks"
• Answers to Concept Checks now provided (Appendix B)
• More women and minority composers represented
• Charts, illustrations, and musical examples revised and clarified
• Audio of musical examples improved and provided through the instructor and student resources

The accompanying Workbook offers exercises and assignments to accompany each chapter in the book. Online Instructor and Student Resources also support the textbook and workbook, including:

• For students: online tutorials with drills of basic concepts, as well as audio recordings of the musical examples.
• For instructors: an Instructor's Manual with answer keys and guides to using the textbook and workbook in a course.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 684
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Dezember 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040361191
• Artikelnr.: 76007463

Autorenporträt

Ralph Turek is a theorist, composer, author, jazz pianist, Professor Emeritus at the University of Akron, and a veteran of 35 years of teaching in the music theory classroom.

Daniel McCarthy is a familiar name in contemporary American music. As a composer, he has received distinguished faculty research/creativity awards at Indiana State University and the University of Akron, where he is Chair of the Composition and Theory Section in the School of Music. He also has extensive experience as a studio composer/arranger for TV, radio, and film.

Inhaltsangabe

PART ONE: FUNDAMENTALS
1 Pitch, Rhythm, Scales, and Keys 
2 Intervals
PART TWO: DIATONIC HARMONY
3 Basic Harmonic Structures
4 Musical Shorthand: Lead Sheets and Figured Bass
5 Harmonies of the Major and Minor Scales
6 Cadences
Harmonic Rhythm
PART THREE: MELODY
7 Melodic Pitch and Rhythm
8 Embellishing Tones
9 Melodic Form
PART FOUR: VOICE LEADING
10 Melodic Principles of Part Writing
The Outer Voice Framework
11 Voicing and Connecting Chords 
12 Part Writing with Root-Position Triads
13 Part Writing with Triads in Inversion
14 Part Writing Seventh Chords
PART FIVE: BASIC CHROMATIC HARMONY
15 Secondary Function I
16 Secondary Function II
17 Modulation I
PART SIX: COUNTERPOINT
18 The Art of Countermelody
19 The Fugue
PART SEVEN: ADVANCED CHROMATIC HARMONY
20 Mixing Modes
21 Altered Pre-Dominants
22 Other Chromatic Harmonies
23 Modulation II
24 Harmonic Extensions and Chromatic Techniques
PART EIGHT: FORM
25 Binary and Ternary Forms
26 Sonata Form
27 The Rondo
PART NINE: MUSIC IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY AND BEYOND
28 Post-Tonal Music: Syntax and Vocabulary 
29 New Tonal Methods
30 Non-Serial Atonality
31 Serial Atonality
32 Harmonic Principles in Jazz
33 The Blues
34 Shaping a Song
Appendix A: Facts of Interest
Appendix B: Concept Check Answers
Appendix C: Lead-Sheet Symbols
Appendix D: Part Writing Guidelines