Advanced Harmony, Theory and Practice with CD Package

Features + Benefits

• NEW - A CD recording of most musical examples.

• NEW - Clarified and simplified examples.

  • Makes it easy for students to understand.

• NEW - 20 new examples of composers-Includes many women.

  • Provides students with a very up-to-date text.

• NEW - Part-writing exercises-Based only on a given bass line in each chapter presenting new harmonic materials.

• NEW - Analytical terminology used for non-dominant diminished seventh chords.

• NEW - New terminology used to describe binary and ternary forms.

• NEW - Assignments parallel assignments in workbook.

  • Makes them a perfect pair for students to learn from.

• Practically self-teaching.

  • Allows students to read ahead at their own pace.

• Technical aspects of musical composition-Coverage is provided without losing sight of music as an art form.

• Part-writing music in four voices-Presentation ranges from easiest to most difficult.

  • Provides students with step-by-step instructions to write music using previously learned techniques.

• Keyboard harmony-Exercises are included using new harmony vocabulary.

  • Helps students to develop keyboard skills that will be used in all aspects of one's musical career.

• Four chapters on 20th century music-Breaks the study into four parts to clarify the great number of differences.

  • Helps the student be better prepared for a comprehensive study of the era.

Backcover

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.