Music Theory

by George Thaddeus Jones

Elementary Acoustics and the Properties of Sound, Music Notation, Intervals and Scales, Chords, Symbolization, Expression Marks and Foreign-Language Terms, Tonality and Key Feeling, Melody Writing, Four-Part Vocal Texture (SATB), Chord Connection, Chord Choice, Harmonizing a Melody, Nonharmonic Tones, Seventh and Ninth Chords, Altered Chords and Chromaticism, Solving Figured Bass, Analysis and Score Reading, Foreign-Language Names for Orchestral Instruments, Range and Transposition of Orchestral Instruments, Homophonic Forms.

Also includes Illustrations, Diagrams, Review Questions, Exercises, Bibliography, and Full Index.

Genres: Music, Reference

288 pages, Paperback

First published September 3, 1994

Reviews

[Jeffrey Bumiller · Rating 3 out of 5]

Helpful. The kind of book I wish I owned and had not gotten from the library. I could see myself going back to it often.