Bibliography

This is a bibliography of textbooks, companions, practice materials, journal articles, etc., used for teaching various music theory subjects at Higher Music Education Institutions in Europe. This innovative tool is created by the users themselves – teachers and students – who can submit specific items used in their institutions. The online and dynamic format of this bibliography ensures its unlimited availability to the whole community of music theory.

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Annie Labussière / Jean-Marc Chouvel

Pierre Boulez: Mémoriale (…explosante-fixe… originel)

Pierre Boulez: Mémoriale (…explosante-fixe… originel)

Analytical article about Pierre Boulez’s “Mémoriale”, a piece for solo flute and eight instruments. The analysis is centered around the…

Music Analysis

Used by: Conservatorio Superior de Musica "Joaquin Rodrigo" (SPAIN)

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Alfred Schnittke

Les tendances polystylistiques de la musique moderne

Polystylistic trends in modern music

Alfred Schnittke offers us an article in which he raises some questions about the development of polystylism in modern music.…

Music Analysis

Used by: Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles (BELGIUM)

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Barnabé Janin

Chanter sur le livre. Manuel pratique d’improvisation polyphonique de la Renaissance

Singing upon the book. Practical manual for polyphonic improvisation of Renaissance Music

The manual gives a vivid and didactically extremely well developed introduction into polyphonic improvisation in 15th & 16th century styles.…

Counterpoint

Used by: Hochschule für Musik Würzburg (GERMANY)

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Barnabé Janin

Chanter sur le livre. Manuel pratique d’improvisation polyphonique de la Renaissance (15ème et 16ème siècles)

Singing upon the book. Practical manual for Renaissance polyphonic improvisation

Introduction, explanations, examples and practical advice on improvising in Renaissance styles with canon techniques, diminution, gymel & fauxbourdon and others,…

Counterpoint

Used by: Hochschule für Musik Würzburg (GERMANY)

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Claude Abromont

Petit précis du commentaire d’écoute

Short summary of commentaries on listening

A guide to identifying musical works by listening for defining characteristics. This book takes students step by step through the…

Ear Training

Used by: Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles (BELGIUM)

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Claude Abromont

Guide de l’analyse musicale

Music Analysis Guide

For most of its history, music analysis was of practical use to composers, while for musicologists it had a more…

Music Analysis

Used by: Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles (BELGIUM)

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Boris de Schloezer

Introduction à J.-S. Bach: Essai d’esthétique musicale

Introduction to J.S. Bach: An essay on musical aesthetics

When he began his monograph on JS Bach, Schloezer realised that he was obliged to use terms that had never…

Other

Used by: Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles (BELGIUM)

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Arnold Schoenberg / Gérard Gubisch

Traité d’harmonie

Harmony Treaty

The writing of the Treatise on Harmony (completed in 1911) was for Schoenberg a double sign of an artistic creation…

Harmony

Used by: Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles (BELGIUM)

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Claude Abromont

Guide de l’analyse musicale

Guide to Musical Analysis

It has now become customary to associate the practical approach of musical analysis with the more theoretical one, addressing composers…

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Used by: Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles (BELGIUM)

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Claude Abromont / Eugène Montalemembert De

Guide des formes de la musique occidentale

Guide to Forms of Western Music

To give the forms of Western music their full relief, this Guide has chosen to multiply the angles of view,…

Music Analysis

Used by: Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles (BELGIUM)

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Ian Bent / William Drabkin / Coeurdevey Annie / Tabouret Jean

L’analyse musicale

Music Analysis

First published in UK in 1987, and finally translated into French, this book constitutes the first encyclopedic repertoire of methods…

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Used by: Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles (BELGIUM)

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Antonio Lai

Genèse et révolutions des langages musicaux

Genesis and revolutions of the musical languages

It is about giving an overall understanding of the development of Western music, from the very specific point of view…

Music Analysis

Used by: Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles (BELGIUM)

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Jean-Pierre Bartoli

L’harmonie classique et romantique

The classical and romantic Harmonic language

After having recalled the positions of the theorists of tonal language, this work defines the principles which govern harmony in…

Harmony

Used by: Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles (BELGIUM)

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François Bovey

L’écoute harmonique subjective

The subective harmonic listening

While our eyes gladly look at he famous trompe-l’oeil and other optical illusions, our ears cannot be deprived of such…

Ear Training

Used by: Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles (BELGIUM)

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Claude Abromont / Eugène Montalembert De

Guide de la Théorie de la Musique

Guide to Music Theory

The Guide to the Theory of Music, with its open and new design, which is abundantly illustrated (more than 500…

Other

Used by: Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles (BELGIUM)

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Olivier Messiaen /

The Technique of My Musical Language

The Technique of My Musical Language

O. Messiaen’s musical language (rhythm, pitches, harmonies, forms)

Harmony

Used by: Royal Academy of Music Aarhus/Aalborg (HUNGARY)

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