Music for Analysis. Examples from the Common Practice Period and the Twentieth Century. International Sixth Edition.

BENJAMIN, Thomas, HORVIT, Michael, and NELSON, Robert [Theory - analysis *° Music °*] :

ISBN 10: 0195391020 / ISBN 13: 9780195391022

Published by New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. *, 2009

About this Item

Large 8vo xxi, 522 pages. Paperback, a little shelf worn, else VG as new. Internally VG. Includes CD in transparent plastic pocket, still sealed, mounted to verso of back cover.

Seller Inventory # _82434_V_

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Music for Analysis. Examples from the Common Practice Period and the Twentieth Century. International Sixth Edition.
• Publisher: New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. *
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195391020
• ISBN 13: 9780195391022
• Binding: Soft cover
• Seller catalogs:
  • Theory - analysis

About this title

Synopsis

Music for Analysis is a varied collection of more than 400 pieces of music from the Baroque period to the present. This anthology provides both excerpts and complete pieces for analysis of style, musical idiom, small forms, tonal harmony, and contemporary techniques. Covering a full range of genres, styles, media, and composers, the musical pieces illustrate standard usage and idiomatic procedures and can be used with any music theory text. Organized logically by harmonic content, Music for Analysis moves progressively and systematically through the techniques and musical scores of the common practice period and 20th century. In the Sixth Edition, the authors have placed more emphasis on the complete pieces for analysis already included and added several more (including "Gavea" by Darius Milhaud, which contains a wide variety of contemporary techniques, and a complete Mozart sonata). The revision also includes precise measure numbers for all excerpts from larger pieces. In this new edition, an audio CD containing recorded music from the text will be packaged with each book.

About the Author

Thomas Benjamin is Professor Emeritus of Music Theory at the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University, where he was Chair of the department. Michael Horvit is Professor of Composition and Theory and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Houston Moores School of Music. Robert Nelson is Professor of Music Theory and Composition at the University of Houston Moores School of Music. A composer in residence and music director of the Houston Shakespeare Festival for 17 sessions, he has also received numerous commissions for compositions and arrangements for the Houston Symphony Orchestra.