Music Theory and Composition Books

The Answering Voice opens our ears and voices to a new way of understanding counterpoint. Drawing on her fifty years of composing and teaching, Alice Parker envisions a theory or composition class where

The thoroughbass was the basis of composed music for an entire music-history period. To anyone starting to deal with the music of the "continuo age" in terms of study and practice today, the new

Learn the nuances of music notation, and create professional looking scores. This reference presents a comprehensive look at contemporary music notation. You will learn the meaning and stylistic practices

From the author of the award-winning book Rock Coach: A Practical Guide for Teaching Rock Bands in Schools comes this resource providing you with the tools and mindset you need to get your learners

Become a better conductor by becoming a better listener. Often, one of the greatest challenges for band directors is detecting errors in rehearsal quickly and easily. This comprehensive resource provides a

The Yamaha HD-300 Harmony Director is arguably the most powerful tool instrumental music teachers can use to improve the sound, balance, and tuning of their ensembles. Although there is plenty of

Everything we do is music contains more than 50 fun, hands-on and thought-provoking activities, each taking a work by John Cage as a starting point and exploring the links between music, dance,

Music notation is a language that has been developing for thousands of years; even the manner in which we read music today has been around for several centuries. In learning to read music, we encounter

A comprehensive approach to all aspects of music score reading and analysis providing a sequential system for efficient and complete score study. Central to this book are more than 300 pages of music scores

Edited by Constanze Wimmer & Helmut Schmidinger. A wealth of topics for discussion cover Schoenberg's new 12-tone row, the 12 elements that make up the Variations, plus a dive into a deeper

This hands-on introduction to the fundamentals of music theory presents the subject in a user-friendly format so that students immediately are comfortable with the material. The organization and

This important book provides a thorough framework for examining rhythm - what it is and how it should best be understood. Written by one of the great music thinkers and educators of our time, Edwin E.

This books offers a practical, fully multimedia curriculum designed to teach basic musical concepts through the creative process of music composition. Music educator Barbara Freedman presents

Students today have grown up in the age of digital technology. As a result, they process information in radically different ways than preceding generations. They like their information fast and consider

In this book, the author draws from her two decades of experience with Music Learning Theory (MLT) to present practical activities, ideas, and strategies to help elementary general music teachers