Anthology of Music for Analysis

Features + Benefits

• Organized topically-Stresses harmony and form.

  • Allows students to contrast and compare the pieces with relation to the core theory curriculum of most schools.

• Instrumental variety-Keyboard music, choral and vocal music, as well as a repertoire for instruments such as horn, bassoon, and trumpet.

  • Enables students to get a representative sampling of music.

• More than 150 complete pieces or movements-Ranging from the Baroque Period to the present day.

  • Encourages students to think critically.

• Extensive pedagogy-Supplemental instructor's manual includes exercises keyed to specific passages in the anthology.

  • Enables instructors to present the excerpts within the context of the whole piece and discusses each piece in the anthology.

Backcover

Anthology of Music for Analysis consists of more than 150 complete pieces or movements from Corelli to Tavener and is intended for use in several kinds of undergraduate and graduate theory courses, including tonal harmony, form and analysis, and music of the twentieth century. The accompanying Instructor's Manual of nearly three hundred pages contains features that make this anthology unlike any other:

• music that is both of the highest quality and pedagogically valuable for classroom use.
• selections featuring a variety of performance media, ranging from works for large ensemble orchestra, chorus) to chamber and solo works for voice, piano, organ, cello, viola, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, and string quartet.
• included in the Instructor's Manual are forty-two pages of assignments for the harmonic analysis of excerpts from the Anthology. The assignments, which may be photocopied and distributed, are arranged by topic and are accompanied by suggested answers and pedagogical information.
• also in the Instructor's Manual are introductory analyses of every selection in the anthology as well as six units on musical form, each of which includes a list of pieces for analysis.