Harmonic Practice in Tonal Music
Conceptually sophisticated and exceptionally musical, Harmonic Practice in Tonal Music provides a thorough treatment of harmony and voice-leading principles in tonal music.
Taking a linear functional approach, Professor Gauldin uses clear explanations and outstanding musical examples to show students how individual chords function in the overall structure of a piece, explaining how both harmonic and melodic forces contribute to the development of musical ideas.
For the Second Edition, Professor Gauldin has undertaken a comprehensive revision that responds directly to the suggestions of instructors. The new text emphasizes fundamental concepts, using a more effective organization and simpler, more accessible language to bring the most important ideas and information to the foreground.
A Responsive Revision
Rewritten from page 1, the Second Edition of Harmonic Practice in Tonal Music responds to the needs of instructors and students with:
- stronger coverage of basic concepts, ensuring that all students, regardless of preparation, are well-equipped to encounter the more complex aspects of chord function
- clear writing and organization that bring the most important ideas and information to the foreground (All supplementary information and exceptions have been moved to the ends of chapters)
- shorter chapters that give instructors greater control over the order in which they introduce new material
- a richer, more diverse range of musical examples
- clarified graphic analysis and voice-leading reductions
Reorganized in Response to User Feedback
- The Subdominant chord is introduced along with I and V chords, making the predominant function available sooner, expanding students’ opportunities for more musical partwriting, as well as Professor Gauldin’s options for interesting examples.
- Diatonic sequences are introduced together in Chapter 20.
- Secondary Dominants are covered in a single chapter that precedes modulation.
- Form Excursions—sections that explore formal design in homophonic and contrapuntal music—have been moved to the end of Part II and reconceived as independent chapters.
- Harmony chapters have been completely reorganized: short chapter introductions relate new chords to those previously discussed; a section on chord type, spelling and terminology precedes practical part-writing considerations; a thoughtfully planned examples section demonstrates the chord’s typical functions (exceptions covered at the end of the chapter); and a concluding section shows students how to embellish model chord progressions and provides guidelines for melody harmonization, important terms, and a short quiz.
NEW Musical Examples and Exercises
Examples in Harmonic Practice are clear, musical, brief, and accessible, easily performed on the keyboard, and representative of a broad spectrum of styles and genres. New musical examples in the Second Edition reflect an even more diverse range of composers and songwriters, including Cecile Chaminade, Amy Beach, Bob Dylan, and the Beatles. New musical exercises are also included; unlike most textbook drills, Professor Gauldin’s creative exercises engage students in real music-making.
New Pedagogy
Students have access to brief, straightforward summaries of the more complex sections with the Second Edition’s new Summary Boxes; new Self-Quizzes have also been added to the end of each chapter for extra reinforcement. A one-volume workbook and Student Resource CD-ROM, featuring most of the music examples in the text and workbook, complete the package.
Harmonic Practice in Tonal Music Workbook
By working through a variety of drills, analyses, and exercises, students learn how harmony functions within a large-scale melodic organization and develop the tools they need to analyze and understand the concepts behind a wide range of music.
- Written exercises—The Second Edition includes new exercises for each chapter that reflect changes in the text, in particular changes in the chapters on fundamentals and diatonic harmony. Exercises require students to fill in short harmonic progressions, complete sequential patterns, realize figured basses, harmonize melodies, analyze excerpts from music literature, and compose original music.
- Keyboard exercises—Professor Gauldin’s keyboard exercises help students make the transition from theory to ear training and performance. Students learn to hear various intervals, chords, and harmonic progressions and to master transposition, figured bass, and melody harmonization. All keyboard exercises have been collected in a separate section at the end of the text.
Harmonic Practice in Tonal Music Student Resource CD-ROM
ISBN 0-393-10360-9
The music literature examples included in the text are now available on this single CD-ROM with performances by students and faculty from the Eastman School of Music. Using either a Mac or PC computer, students can easily navigate through an index of over 500 recordings and listen to the examples as they work through the text.
Instructor’s Manual / Answer Key
The Instructor’s Manual provides answers for all exercises in the Workbook.
