Mastering the Fundamentals of Music
by Rebecca M. Herrold

Gain competency in music fundamentals through a hands-on approach to Rhythm, Melody, Intervals, Triads, and Harmony. Each new concept is reinforced through singing, listening, written exercises, keyboard practice, and creative activity. Examples are drawn from a variety of sources, including world music, folk music, Western art music, and musicals. Practice questions, musical applications, mastery tests, and projects are included in each chapter. A learning tool for beginning musicians, and music teachers.

Tonal Harmony, With an Introduction to Twentieth-Century Music
by Stefan Kostka

Straightforward book emphasizing practicality and ease-of-use for both the student and professor.
By focusing on the core elements of the theory curriculum in a single-volume format, the text is both a complete coursebook and a handy and cost-saving manual for students. On the professors side, the supplements package (with a collection of CD audio examples and an extensive Instructors Manual) makes the book easy to use and to teach.

Keyboard Chord Finder (CD-ROM)
by Duane Shinn

Find any chord instantly with the CD-ROM Keyboard Chord Finder. Chords for all keyboards, whether acoustic piano, electronic keyboard, synthesizer or organ.




Advanced Harmony, Theory and Practice
by Robert W. Ottman
A companion text to Ottman's Elementary Harmony, this volume picks up where the other leaves off, completing the studies in 18th-19th century harmony and concluding with three chapters designed as an introduction to twentieth century composition. Together, these two volumes include materials ranging from music fundamentals through twentieth-century music, covering the needs of the usual two-year college music theory program in the subject areas of harmony, analysis, and the application of these to keyboard harmony.

All About Chords
by Elvo S. D'Amante
A Comprehensive Approach to Understanding Contemporary Chordal Structures and Progressions Through Solid Drills in Suggested Study: questions, keyboard drills, and ear-training exercises

Analysis Through Composition: Principles of the Classical Style
by Nicholas Cook

Anthology for Musical Analysis
by Charles Burkhart
Suitable for classess in music theory, analysis or music literature, or as a supplement to harmony courses, this chronologically arranged anthology contains the scores of more than 200 complete musical compositions.

Apollo's Lyre: Greek Music and Music Theory in Antiquity and the Middle Ages
by Thomas J. Mathiesen

Basic Music Theory: How to Read, Write, and Understand Written Music
by Jonathan Harnum

An ideal, highly recommended text for anyone of any background wanting to become proficient reading, composing, and performing written music.




The Beginner's Guide to Understanding Music
by Richard Bell, Cathy Bell
Covers the basic theory needed to begin reading music as well as for writing your own musical compositions. Beginning with the basics: basic definitions, note values, key signature, etc. and moving on to more advanced theory including modulations, suspended chords, inversions and cadences, this book flows so that the beginning student can start at the beginning, and working through the book a chapter at a time will gradually gain a concrete knowledge in music theory. Over 100 clearly laid out examples.

The Best Chord Changes for the World's Greatest Standards
by Frank Mantooth
Best shortcut to sounding like a pro.

Chords and Progressions for Jazz and Popular Keyboards
by Kenneth Baker

A Classical Approach to Jazz Piano: Exploring Harmony
by Dominic Alldis

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Music Theory
by Michael Miller

The Complete Musician: An Integrated Approach to Tonal Theory, Analysis, and Listening by Steven Laitz
Bringing together the analytical, aural, and tactile activities that comprise a tonal theory curriculum, The Complete Musician relies on a diverse repertoire and innovative exercises to integrate theory (writing and analysis), skills (singing, playing, and dictation), and music-making outside the theory class.

Compositional Theory in the Eighteenth Century
by Joel Lester

Comprehensive Musical Analysis
by John D. White

Contemporary Music Theory: Level One
by Mark Harrison








Counterpoint
by Kent Wheeler Kennan
This volume teaches counterpoint through analysis of contrapuntal elements in music and writing of the Baroque period.

Counterpoint in Composition
by Felix Salzer, Carl Schachter
Adresses counterpoint not as a theoretical abstraction but as a concrete musical experience. All too often counterpoint is reduced to meaningless exercises not connected with real world music. Combines Fux's species counterpoint whith Schenkerian thought to create a most solid counterpoint book.

Elementary Rudiments of Music
by Barbara Wharram
Recommended for use in the study of theory at the Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto, Canada.

Examples of Easy Figured Bass for the Keyboard
by Darrell R. Douglas
Designed for the novice figured bass student or anyone who wants to learn how to read the figures. 114 examples of music in the five major areas of figured bass playing: Hymn/Choral, Recitative, Song, Passacaglia/Chaconne, and Duo-Trio Sonata. Many familiar tunes are included.

Gradus I: An Integrated Approach to Harmony, Counterpoint, and Analysis
by Leo Kraft







Harmonic Materials in Tonal Music
by Greg A. Steinke This self-paced, auto-instructional book in two volumes has become a “classic” in the field of music. A wealth of clearly laid-out lessons and exercises provide learners with continual feedback and reinforcement as they work through the activities and assignments at their own pace. Chapter topics include some definitions, the structure of tonality, triads in root position: doubling and spacing, triads in root position: voice leading, triads in first and second inversion, introduction to seventh chords and the dominant seventh, phrase structure and cadences, nonharmonic tones, harmonic progression, and the technique of harmonization. For music studio teachers and students, and use in preparatory music programs.

Harmony & Theory: A Comprehensive Source for All Musicians
by Keith Wyatt, Carl Schroeder
Introduction to the basics of music theory for beginners.

Jazz Piano Chords
by Misha Stefanuk
A chord reference for any pianist wanting to learn to play jazz.

Jazz Piano and Harmony: A Fundamental Guide (Book & CD)
by John M. Ferrara
A comprehensive guide to jazz piano and harmony for the beginning to intermediate pianist/musician. There are over fifty full pages of music examples, along with exercises to help the student comprehend the subject matter.

Keyboard Harmony and Improvisation
by Lawrence Ferrara

Making Changes: A Practical Guide to Vernacular Harmony
by Eric Salzman, Michael Sahl
This book takes you from beginning scales through chords, progressing to chord charts. The text is well written and thought out. Numerous examples of contemporary songs are used to underscore the points made.

Modal Counterpoint, Renaissance Style
by Peter Schubert
Introduces the rules of writing and analyzing 16th-century music through a wide variety of carefully graded exercises. It is the only species counterpoint book that uses examples and concepts taken directly from sixteenth-century treatises and contemporaneous theoretical sources.

Modern Jazz Piano: A Study in Harmony
by Brian Waite
The ideal textbook of jazz theory. Contains most of the important concepts of jazz: circle of fifths, polychordism, modes, bass lines- with practical examples and chord progression tables.

Music Theory for Dummies: A Reference for the Rest Of Us!
by Nadrew W. Hill

A New Approach to Ear Training
by Leo Kraft
Provides students with the means to master ear-training skills on their own and at their own pace. Organized into four large sections of carefully graded exercises that correspond to the progression of material in most theory courses.

Preparing Traditional Music Manuscript: Including a Handbook of Instrumentation, Theory, and Musical Terms
by Michael Mohn
Provides composers, copyists, and music students a useful reference for the proper preparation of music manuscript. Every aspect of music notation is covered, with numerous examples illustrating every topic. Describes how to notate music for instruments and voice, prepare scores, and extract parts. Also three comprehensive appendices covering instrumentation, theory, and musical terms.

Programmed Rudiments of Music
by Robert W. Ottman, Frank D. Mainous

This programmed version of a classic introduction to the basic essentials of music shows the relationship between theory and “real” music. Presenting information in a step-by-step programmed format, this book covers the most elementary aspects of music —including music notation, time, scales, keys, intervals and basic concepts of chords. The information is introduced in small increments, followed by questions with answers for reinforcement.

Rhythm Reading: Elementary Through Advanced Training
by Daniel Kazez
Identifies the short rhythm patterns that appear over and over in Western music and introduces them one at a time. By focusing on these patterns, or "rhythm cells," readers make the transition from reading notes to reading music quickly and easily. The final section of the book contains 70 excerpts from Western music literature of all periods so that readers can perform rhythms in different contexts.

The Romantic Century: A Theory/Composition Pedagogy
by Michael G. Cunningham

Rudiments of Music
by Frank D. Mainous, Robert W. Ottman
Comprehensive introduction features the basic aspects of music notation, the study of pitch and time, and the application of these to scales, key signatures, intervals, the keyboard, note values, meter, rhythm, and elementary harmony.

Score Reading: A Key to the Music Experience
by Michael Dickreiter
Score reading provides insights into the musical structure of a work that are difficult to obtain from merely listening. It can enable one to determine the accuracy of a performance, or comprehend the use of specific instruments. Score reading is a practical skill for musicians of all types...

Sonata Forms
by Charles Rosen
Everything you always wanted to know about the sonata, but were afraid to ask, answered at surprising length and with copious musical illustrations. Sonatas are generally thought of as being always organized into exposition, development, and recapitulation, but, writes Rosen, "...it is very dubious that a unique sonata form can be so defined even for a single decade of the late eighteenth-century," and he goes on to prove why it can't. Important reading for the serious musician.

The Study of Counterpoint
by Johann Joseph Fux, Alfred Mann (Translator)
Since its appearance in 1725, it has been used by and has directly influenced the work of many of the great composers, including J.S. Bach, Haydn, and Beethoven. Originally written in Latin, this work has been translated in to the principal European languages. The present translation by Alfred Mann is the first faithful rendering in English, presenting the essence of Fux's teachings.

The Study of Fugue
by Alfred Mann
Invaluable reading for composers, theorists, and historians.

Studying Rhythm
by Anne Carothers Hall
A collection of approximately 300 graded one- and two-part rhythmic studies -- mostly 12 to 16 measures long -- that are intended to be sung, spoken, and tapped or clapped.

Tipbook: Music on Paper
by Hugo Pinksterboer
Clearly written, well illustrated, easy-to-follow layout and comprehensive approach. Technical information presented in commendably easy to understand language. An impressive vast body of information for such a small book.

Today's Chords & How to Use Them
by Bugs Bower








Theory of Harmony
by Arnold Schoenberg
A classic in music theory--the 1983 English translation of the Schoenberg's third edition of the Theory of Harmony. Written as a textbook, it almost is never used as such; rather, it is used primarily by Schoenberg scholars and, more generally, academic music theorists. Schoenberg's ideas differ frequently from more "standard," American curricula (Piston, Schenker) and for this reason make for interesting reading.

Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns
by Nicolas Slonimsky
For the serious musician, this challenging and comprehensive book of over 1300 scales and melodic patterns will definitely expand your musical vocabulary, no matter what instrument or musical style you play.

Treatise on Harmony
by Jean Philippe Rameau
Written by Jean-Phillipe Rameau, one of the most esteemed French composers of the late Baroque period.

Twentieth-Century Harmony
by Vincent Persichetti

Understanding Music Fundamentals
by R. Phyllis Gelineau
Designed for use by those with little or no background in music, this volume provides an understanding of how to read the various signs, symbols and terms found in music -- as well as ways of translating them into sound.

Understanding Rock Music: Essays in Musical Analysis
by John Covach (Editor), Graeme M. Boone (Editor)
Brings together essays by seven of musicology and music theory's best young scholars, and each essay explores the often complex musical structure of rock.


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