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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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)
Read moreDie Musikalische Form als Prozes
Musical Form as a Process
A unknown volume by Russian theory-professor Boris Assafiev, first published in 1930. He approaches musical form in an algorithmic and…
Music Analysis
Used by: Royal Conservatoire Antwerp (BELGIUM)
Read morePrincipes van de westerse tonaal-functionele harmonie – een algemene harmonieleer – Compendium van het traditionele harmonieonderricht in Vlaanderen en West-Europa
Principles of western tonal functional harmony - a general theory of harmony - Compendium of the traditional theory of harmony in Flanders and Western Europe
Table of contents Conventions and abbreviations 9 1. Part I: Basic principles of the chord theory 13 Table of contents…
Harmony
Used by: LUCA School of Arts (Lemmens) (BELGIUM)
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 moreMusic 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)
Read moreMusic 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)
Read moreThe 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)
Read moreThe 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)
Read moreAnalysing 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)
Read moreTonal 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)
Read moreMusiques 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)
Read moreThe 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)
Read moreThe 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)
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)
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