The Musician?s Guide to Theory

This wide-ranging music resource features sixty-two complete works and movements organized alphabetically by composer.

Selections represent a uniquely diverse variety of styles―from popular song to German, from piano rags to minimalism, from marches for bands to anthems for choirs―with over one-third of the selections from the twentieth century. The Anthology can be accompanied by an exceptional three-CD set that includes professional recordings of all Anthology pieces.

Jane Piper Clendinning is professor of music theory at the Florida State University College of Music. She has published articles reflecting her interests in the history of theory, theory and analysis of twentieth-century music, computer pitch recognition, and computer applications in music. Her current research interests include theory and analysis of popular and world musics. She has served as the chair of the Advanced Placement Music Theory Test Development Committee and as an AP reader, and is a regular consultant at AP workshops and summer Institutes.

Elizabeth West Marvin is Minehan Professor Emerita of Music Theory and former dean of academic affairs at the Eastman School of Music. She has published in the areas of music cognition, music theory pedagogy, theory and analysis of atonal music, contour theory, history of theory, and analysis and performance. She is past president of the Society for Music Theory and past co-chair of the Advanced Placement Music Theory Test Development Committee. Marvin is the 2012 recipient of the Gail Boyd de Stwolinski Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Music Theory Teaching and Scholarship.