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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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)
Read moreLes 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)
Read moreChanter 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)
Read moreChanter 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)
Read morePetit 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)
Read moreGuide 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)
Read moreIntroduction 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)
Read moreTraité 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)
Read moreGuide 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…
Music Analysis
Used by: Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles (BELGIUM)
Read moreGuide 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)
Read moreL’analyse musicale
Music Analysis
First published in UK in 1987, and finally translated into French, this book constitutes the first encyclopedic repertoire of methods…
Music Analysis
Used by: Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles (BELGIUM)
Read moreGenèse 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)
Read moreL’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)
Read moreL’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)
Read moreGuide 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)
Read moreThe 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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