Scales, Intervals, Keys, Triads, Rhythm, and Meter (Third Edition)

Boge, Claire, Clough, John, Conley, Joyce

ISBN 10: 0393973697 / ISBN 13: 9780393973693

Published by W. W. Norton & Company, 1999

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Scales, Intervals, Keys, Triads, Rhythm, and Meter (Third Edition)
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393973697
• ISBN 13: 9780393973693
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 3rd Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Book Type: book

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Synopsis

The authors have retained thetext s self-instructional organization, with tests at the end of eachpart, while adding new quizzes at the end of each set and a cumulativetest for Parts One through Six. A new design features visually strikingpedagogical aids, allowing students to progress through exercises attheir own pace or to dip into the text at any point to brush up onspecific skills. The Third Edition also includes numerous new examplesfrom the music literature to reinforce theoretical concepts covered ineach set, as well as an appended study anthology of ten complete piecesthat allows students to see how individual concepts are woven into thefabric of a composition. The companion CD, keyed to specific frames ineach set, provides enormously useful aural reinforcement.

About the Authors

Claire Boge is Associate Professor of music theory at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. She has been recognized for her teaching excellence by the Greater Cincinnati Consortium of Colleges and Universities and is currently a member of the editorial board of the Journal on Excellence in College Teaching. Professor Boge is active in the Society for Music Theory, most recently serving as editor of the society’s newsletter.

John Clough is Slee Professor of Music Theory at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He has published in a variety of journals, most notably on the use of mathematics in music. His article "Maximally Even Sets" won the Society for Music Theory Outstanding Publication Award in 1991. Professor Clough also served as editor of the journal Music Theory Spectrum.

Joyce Conley holds Ph.D.s in musicology and clinical psychology and has established careers in both fields. She is especially keen on studying the relationship between music and psychology when it comes to learning musical skills. Her pedagogical insights informed the second edition of Scales, Intervals, Keys, Triads, Rhythm and Meter and its companion volume Basic Harmonic Progressions, both coauthored with John Clough.