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Summary: Best music theory book out there today
Review: As a graduate student in music theory, I have had to review different textbooks used to teach music theory. Even to the average musician, music theory can sometimes be hard to grasp. However, with the simple but sufficient explanations, this book is definately the best one on the market today. Used with the workbook and possibly a supplimental anthology, students can get a thorough grasp of the theoretical concepts from early music to 20th century music including a bit of jazz, pop, and modern music genres. I highly recommend it.
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Summary: Best music theory book out there today
Review: As a graduate student in music theory, I have had to review different textbooks used to teach music theory. Even to the average musician, music theory can sometimes be hard to grasp. However, with the simple but sufficient explanations, this book is definately the best one on the market today. Used with the workbook and possibly a supplimental anthology, students can get a thorough grasp of the theoretical concepts from early music to 20th century music including a bit of jazz, pop, and modern music genres. I highly recommend it.
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Summary: great book
Review: Definetely the best theory book I have seen. Everything is explained very thouroghly, and there are lots of exercises and examples given. If you go in order of the book, it takes you right from where you need to start, with notation, intervals, triads, etc., and progressively covers more things. I would reccomend this to anyone.
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Summary: Excellent and understandable music theory textbook
Review: I am currently doing an independent study project (all year), teaching myself music theory. This textbook is easy-to-understand and does a good job of explaining some difficult concepts. Although there are some ideas where it would be nice to have a complete summary, the book is thorough but not overwhelming. If you plan to really teach yourself the concepts, though (as I am), you should buy the workbook in addition to this textbook, because the exercises at the end of each chapter, although helpful, are not really enough.All in all, an outstanding book.
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Summary: Might be a good choice if it's the book I'm thinking of.
Review: I have had some use with Music in Theory and Practice when I was in college, and I found it good. However, my understanding is that this comes in two volumes, and the description does not indiciate if this is volume 1 or 2, so I probably would find another source for buying this book.
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Summary: great book
Review: This book is an excellent work, written by Bruce Benward and Gary White. The explanations are limited to the indispensable minimum and written in a schematic way that makes it very easy to grasp, followed by plentiful musical examples, mostly from music literature that say more than a thousand words, and that is what I like best about this book, despite the theory you have to learn, you know you're talking about real music. It is divided in three parts. The first part, on the first volume, concentrates on the fundamentals of music and it explains very well the concepts of notation, scales, tonality, key, modes, intervals, chords, in a way understandable for any one; the second part, also in volume one concentrates on the structural elements of music like melodic organization, voice leading in four-part chorale writing, harmonic progression and modulation. There are lots of exercises in this book but for people who have no experience at reading music I would recommend, a specific book for that, because the ones on the first part of the book though helpful, aren't enough and you will need that ability to study the rest of the book. (This review concerns the 5th edition of the 1st vol.) The third part of the book, in the second volume was written by Bruce Benward; it concentrates on analysis methods and analysis of musical examples from the 16th century until present day. I strongly recommend you to also take this part. After you do, a musical piece is no longer just a bunch of notes, or a beautiful melody, you see it as a meaningful organized whole. (see more)
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Summary: GREAT MUSIC THEORY BOOK
Review: This book is an excellent work, written by Bruce Benward and Gary White. The explanations are limited to the indispensable minimum and written in a schematic way that makes it very easy to grasp, followed by plentiful musical examples, mostly from music literature that say more than a thousand words, and that is what I like best about this book, despite the theory you have to learn, you know you're talking about real music. It is divided in three parts. The first part, on the first volume, concentrates on the fundamentals of music and it explains very well the concepts of notation, scales, tonality, key, modes, intervals, chords, in a way understandable for any one; the second part, also in volume one concentrates on the structural elements of music like melodic organization, voice leading in four-part chorale writing, harmonic progression and modulation. There are lots of exercises in this book but for people who have no experience at reading music I would recommend, a specific book for that, because the ones on the first part of the book though helpful, aren't enough and you will need that ability to study the rest of the book. (This review concerns the 5th edition of the 1st vol.) The third part of the book, in the second volume was written by Bruce Benward; it concentrates on analysis methods and analysis of musical examples from the 16th century until present day. I strongly recommend you to also take this part. After you do, a musical piece is no longer just a bunch of notes, or a beautiful melody, you see it as a meaningful organized whole. (see more)
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Summary: Great Music Theory Book!
Review: This is a great music theory book and wkbk. It is put in very easy and simple ways to understand non-dominant seventh chords, transposition, and inversions. I recommend this combo to every student, or teacher out there who wants to learn theory or brush up on it. The tape is also helpful but not essential.
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