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Study Resources for the Graduate Exams in Music Theory
Harmony
Tonal Harmony with an Introduction to Twentieth-Century
Music by Steven Kostka and
Dorothy Payne is recommended for this area.
The text covers fundamentals through late
nineteenth-century chromatic materials including
secondary function, augmented sixth
chords, neapolitans, borrowed chords and some
preliminary information about form.
Each chapter offers a self-test with answers
keyed in the back of the text. The
terminology is standard and the format of the
text is logical and concise. The book
accompanying workbook are available in Western's
Campus Bookstore or on reserve in
the Music/Dance Library.
Dictation
You are responsible for intervals, scales, chords,
melodic dictation, harmonic dictation, a four-part
chorale dictation and an exercise in error detection.
On reserve in the Music/Dance Library is a two-volume
set of materials entitled Musicianship by Henry
& Mobberley with corresponding cassette
tapes. Also on reserve in the library you will
find software for the Apple IIGS computer which
will drill most of these skills.
Twentieth
Century
The materials for this test cover from the turn
of the century to approximately 1930-- Impressionism,
Bartok, Stravinsky and the second Viennese School.
A good source for introductory materials to
twentieth-century theoretical techniques is
the last section of the Kostka/Payne text cited
under Harmony above. Also see New Direction
in Music by David H. Cope.
Form
Form in Tonal Music by Douglass Green is recommended
for this area. The text is clear and concise,
and you will find more information than you
will need for your immediate purposes.
For further information
contact Dr.
David Code at Western Michigan University
(269) 387-4683.
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