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Theory and Notation

Internet Resources
 

    Music Theory Online - http://mto.societymusictheory.org/

     Ricci Adams’ Musictheory.net – http://musictheory.net/

     Theory on the Web: An On-line, Hypertext for Music Theory –

     http://www.smu.edu/totw/

     Introduction to Music Theory and Aural Skills –

     http://www.murraystate.edu/qacd/cfac/music/mus109entry.htm
     

Books

Analyzing Bach Cantatas

     Author:  Chafe, Eric

     Holdings:  ML410.B13 C38 2000

 

Anthology of Twentieth-Century Music

     Author:  Wennerstrom, Mary H.

     Holdings:  MT6.5 .A6 1969

 

Boethius, The consolations of Music, Logic, Theology, and Philosophy

     Author:  Chadwick, Henry

     Holdings:  Electronic Book

 

Cantus Firmus in Mass and Motet, 1420-1520

     Author:  Sparks, Edgar H.

     Holdings:  ML174 .S7

 

Concert Music, Rock, and Jazz Since 1945:  Essays and Analytical Studies

     Author:  Marvin, Elizabeth West and Richard Hermann

     Holdings:  Electronic Book

 

Constructive Dissonance:  Arnold Schoenberg and the Transformations of Twentieth-Century Culture

     Author:  Brand, Juliane and Christopher Hailey

     Holdings:  Electronic Book

 

Contrapuntal Harmonic Technique of the 18th Century

     Author:  McHose, Allen Irvine

     Holdings:  MT50 .M153

 

Formalized Music:  Thought and Mathematics in Composition

     Author:  Xenakis, Iannis

     Holdings:  ML3800 .X4


Foundations of Diatonic Theory:  A Mathematically Based Approach to Music Fundamentals

     Author:  Johnson, Timothy A.

     Holdings:  MT6.J63 F68 2003

 

Graduate Music Theory Review (in outline form)

     Author:  Riley, James R.

     Holdings:  MT10 .R56 1980

 

History of Music Theory, Books I and II: Polyphonic Theory to the Sixteenth Century

     Author:  Riemann, Hugo

     Holdings:  ML430 .R563

 

Inside the Music

     Author:  Stewart, Dave

     Holdings:  Electronic Book

 

Marsalis on Music

     Author:  Marsalis, Wynton

     Holdings:  M7 .M338 1995

 

Music Notation in the Twentieth Century

    Author:  Stone, Kurt

    Holdings:  MT35 .S87

 

Music Theory in Concept and Practice

     Author:  Baker, James M., David W. Beach, Jonathan W. Bernard

     Holdings:  Electronic Book

 

Music Through Sources and Documents

     Author:  Rowen, Ruth Halle

     Holdings:  ML160 .R88

 

Musical Form in the Age of Beethoven:  Selected Writings on Theory and Method

     Author:  Marx, A.B.

     Holdings:  Electronic Book

 

Musician’s Guide to Reading & Writing Music

     Author:  Stewart, Dave

     Holdings:  Electronic Book

 

Notation of Medieval Music

    Author:  Parrish, Carl

    Holdings:  ML431 .P37


 

Notation of Polyphonic Music:  900-1600

    Author:  Apel, Willi

    Holdings:  ML431 .A6 1961

 

Rules of Musical Interpretation in the Baroque Era (17th-18th Centuries), Common to All Instruments

     Author:  Veilhan, Jean Claude

     Holdings:  ML457 .V4413 1979

 

Scientific Method in Ptolemy’s Harmonics

     Author:  Barker, Andrew

     Holdings:  Electronic Book

 

Standardized Chord Symbol Notation

    Author:  Brandt, Carl

    Holdings:  MT35 .B73

 

Technique of My Musical Language

     Author:  Messiaen, Olivier

     Holdings:  MT6 .M4482

 

The Rules of Musical Interpretation in the Baroque Era

     Author:   Veilhan, Jean Claude

     Holdings:   ML457 .V4413 1979  

 

Theory of Harmony

     Author:  Levy, Ernst

     Holdings:  Electronic Book

 

White Spirituals in the Southern Uplands:  The Story of the Fasola Folk, Their Songs, Singings, and "Buckwheat Notes"

    Author:  Jackson, George Pullen

    Holdings:  ML3551 .J2

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