Harmony and Voice Leading - Hardcover

Aldwell, Edward; Schachter, Carl; Cadwallader, Allen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0495189758 ISBN 13: 9780495189756

Publisher: Cengage Learning, 2010

Synopsis

A clear and comprehensive volume spanning the entire theory course, the fourth edition of Harmony and Voice Leading begins with coverage of basic concepts of theory and harmony and moves into coverage of advanced dissonance and chromaticism. It emphasizes the linear aspects of music as much as the harmonic, and introduces large-scale progressions--linear and harmonic--at an early stage. The fourth edition now includes a chapter introducing species counterpoint and integrates that material into the rest of the text. A new premium web site for students will provide interactive, guided exercises for new material covered in each unit. The instructor's companion site will include "Guidelines for Instructors," a new instructor's manual written by the authors.

About This Edition

New Features

• A new, password-protected premium web site for students includes interactive, guided exercises for material covered in the text and musical examples from the literature in both streaming and downloadable format.


• Workbooks and CD sets will be available in print or on a password-protected site.


• A new instructor's companion site will include "Guidelines for Instructors," an instructor's manual written by Allen Cadwallader.


• The text and musical examples have been thoroughly revised for increased clarity and accessibility.


• Clearer visual presentation, increased clarity and consistency of terminology and symbols, and more guidance in the exercises increase the text's effectiveness.


• A new chapter introduces species counterpoint, and the text integrates this material into subsequent units.

Additional Features

• "Points for Review" at the end of each unit (before the exercises) offer brief, consecutively numbered summations of the key concepts covered in that unit.


• Important points are summarized in boxes as needed throughout each unit to help students check the progress of their learning.


• Exercises included at the end of each unit have students undertake such creative assignments as writing short progressions of various types and harmonizing melodies with unfigured/figured bass lines.


• Each unit includes 10 to 40 musical examples--brief excerpts that illustrate the specific harmonic and voice-leading techniques discussed at that point. The musical examples are drawn primarily from masterpieces of concert repertoire, but a few abstract pieces composed by the authors are also included.


• Important points are summarized in boxes as needed throughout each unit to help students check the progress of their learning.

Explore this title's supplements:

Workbook: Harmony & Voice Leading, Vol. I, Fourth Edition

Workbook: Harmony & Voice Leading, Vol. II, Fourth Edition

Audio CD-ROM for Aldwell/Cadwallader's Harmony and Voice Leading, Fourth Edition

About this title

About the Author:

Thomas E. Benjamin has recently retired as Chair of the Department of Music Theory at the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University. A composer, conductor, performer, and music theorist with more than 40 compositions published and recorded, he also holds fellowships and awards from the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Michael Horvit is Professor Emeritus of Composition and Theory at the Moores School of Music at the University of Houston. His works range from solo instrumental and vocal pieces to large symphonic and choral compositions and operas, all widely performed in the United States, Europe, Japan and Israel. In addition to CDs with the Albany label, he has published with C.F. Peters, MorningStar, Recital Publications, Shawnee Press, E.C. Schirmer, Southern and Transcontinental. He received the Martha Baird Rockefeller Award as well as honors from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Robert S. Nelson teaches music theory and composition at the Moores School of Music, University of Houston. A composer in residence and music director of the Houston Shakespeare Festival for 17 seasons, he has also received numerous commissions for compositions and arrangements for the Houston Symphony Orchestra.

Review:

Part I: THE PRIMARY MATERIALS AND PROCEDURES. 1. Key, Scales, and Modes. 2. Intervals. 3. Rhythm and Meter. 4. Triads and Seventh Chords. 5. Introduction to Counterpoint. 6. Procedures of Four-Part Writing. Part II: I-V-I AND ITS ELABORATIONS. 7. I, V, and V7. 8. I6, V6, VII6. 9. Inversions of V7. 10. Leading to V: IV, II, and II6. 11. The Cadential 6/4. 12. VI and IV6. 13. Supertonic and Subdominant Seventh Chords. 14. Other Uses of IV, IV6, and VI. 15. V as a Key Area. 16. III and VII. Part III: 5/3, 6/3, AND 6/4 TECHNIQUES. 17. 5/3-Chord Techniques. 18. Diatonic Sequences. 19. 6/3-Chord Techniques. 20. 6/4-Chord Techniques. Part IV: ELEMENTS OF FIGURATION. 21. Melodic Figuration. 22. Rhythmic Figuration. Part V: DISSONANCE AND CHROMATICISM I. 23. Leading-Tone Seventh Chords. 24. Mixture. 25. Remaining Uses of Seventh Chords. 26. Applied V and VII. 27. Diatonic Modulation. Part VI: DISSONANCE AND CHROMATICISM II. 28. Seventh Chords with Added Dissonance. 29. The Phrygian II (Neapolitan). 30. Augmented Sixth Chords. 31. Other Chromatic Chords. 32. Chromatic Voice-Leading Techniques. 33. Chromaticism in Larger Contexts. Appendix I: Keyboard Progressions. Appendix II: Score Reduction. Appendix III: Explanatory Tables and Charts. Index of Musical Examples. Subject Index.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0495189758
• ISBN 13: 9780495189756
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 736