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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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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Ian Bent

Music analysis in the nineteenth century. I: Fugue, form, and style

Music analysis in the nineteenth century. I: Fugue, form, and style

Analytical lineages from Rameau (harmonic), Marpurg, Mattheson, Riepel, and Koch (rhetorical and melodic), fed by models from natural philosophy and…

Music Analysis

Used by: Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles (BELGIUM)

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Ian Bent

Music analysis in the nineteenth century. II: Hermeneutic approaches

Music analysis in the nineteenth century. II: Hermeneutic approaches

Hermeneutics decodes the message of a work rather than describing its outward form. The general hermeneutics of Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768-1834)…

Music Analysis

Used by: Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles (BELGIUM)

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Charles Rosen

The classical style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven

The classical style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven

A study of the styles of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven, with particular reference to Haydn’s string quartets and symphonies and…

Music Analysis

Used by: Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles (BELGIUM)

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Charles Rosen

The Romantic generation

The Romantic generation

The period spanning the deaths of Beethoven and Chopin provides a time frame for a discussion of the works of…

Music Analysis

Used by: Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles (BELGIUM)

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Nicholas Cook

Analysing musical multimedia

Analysing musical multimedia

Puts forward a general theory of the manner in which different media—music, words, moving images, and dance—work together to create…

Music Analysis

Used by: Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles (BELGIUM)

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Stefan Kostka / Dorothy Payne

Tonal Harmony With an Introduction to Twentieth-Century Music

Tonal Harmony With an Introduction to Twentieth-Century Music

Designed to meet the needs of the two-year theory curriculum for music majors, this straightforward market-leading text emphasizes practicality and…

Harmony

Used by: Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles (BELGIUM)

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Philippe Albèra

Musiques en création: Textes et entretiens

The creation of music: Texts and interviews

Texts and interviews of composers that allow the reader to enter the workshop of creation and reflect the diversity of…

History of Music

Used by: Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles (BELGIUM)

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Marjorie W. Hirsch / Lisa Feurzeig

The Cambridge companion to Schubert’s Winterreise

The Cambridge companion to Schubert's Winterreise

This Companion enhances understanding of Schubert’s Winterreise by approaching it from multiple angles (the political, cultural, and musical environments in…

History of Music

Used by: Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles (BELGIUM)

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Russell Hartenberger / Ryan McClelland

The Cambridge companion to rhythm

The Cambridge companion to rhythm

This Companion explores the richness of musical time through a variety of perspectives, surveying influential writings on the topic, incorporating…

Other

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…

Music Analysis

Used by: Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles (BELGIUM)

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Rémy Campos / Nicolas Donin

L’analyse musicale, une pratique et son histoire

Musical analysis, a practice and its history

A simple idea is at the origin of this work: far from being reduced to a scholarly discourse on eoworks,…

Music Analysis

Used by: Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles (BELGIUM)

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György Ligeti / Catherine Fourcassié

Neuf essais sur la musique

Nine essays on music

The texts of György Ligeti, unknown to French readers and disseminated in German magazines today difficult to find, represent a…

Music Analysis

Used by: Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles (BELGIUM)

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