The Complete Musician: An Integrated Approach to Tonal Theory, Analysis, and Listening, 3rd Edition 3rd Edition

by Steven G. Laitz (Author)

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Beginning with music fundamentals, this text covers all the topics necessary for a thorough understanding of undergraduate music theory by focusing on music in context. The text links each of the tasks that comprise a tonal theory curriculum, explicitly connecting written theory (writing and
analysis), skills (singing, playing, and dictation), and music-making outside the theory class.

DISTINCTIVE FEATURES
* Presents an outstanding quality, quantity, and diversity of exercises geared toward real music and real music situations
* Explores not only standard four-voice harmony, but also other musical domains including melody, counterpoint, and a multitude of textures; the result is a text with applicability and relevance to all musicians
* Includes almost 4,500 musical examples from the common-practice repertoire in the text and workbooks, more than 90 percent of which are on the CDs included with the text and workbooks--nearly twenty hours of music on MP3 files (all music is performed, recorded, and engineered at Eastman)

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"The Complete Musician offers a depth of theoretical training and analytical insight that its competitors do not. It has, by far, the best musical examples of any textbook available on the market today. The exercises, which incrementally progress from easier to harder, are highly original and just plain fun to do."--Reginald Bain, University of South Carolina

"The integration of composition, analysis, aural recognition, and performance is the best feature of The Complete Musician. It subtly reinforces the idea that a musician needs an understanding of each aspect of the musical universe in order to excel in any of its specialized areas. The CompleteMusician trains music students to think like composers, which cannot help but make them better performers."--Ciro Scotto, University of South Florida

"The most comprehensive, musically intelligent, and easy-to-use music theory textbook on the market."--Stefan Eckert, University of Northern Colorado

"This title ranks among the very best of its kind. . . . If you want a thorough and approachable book that gets behind, or into the head (indeed, heart and soul) of composers whose music you've known; want to know how it works the way it does, and why; want to see the mechanics, an appreciation of which serves only to enhance your sense of admiration for their technique, then The Complete Musician can be recommended wholeheartedly."--Review from Classical.net

About the Author

Steven G. Laitz is Professor of Music Theory at the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester. He is also an Affiliate Faculty Member in the Chamber Music Department at Eastman. Dr. Laitz is the current editor of the Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy.

Product details

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Oxford University Press; 3rd edition (April 7, 2011)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 896 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0199742782
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0199742783
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 4.02 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 10.1 x 1.5 x 8.3 inches

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As another reviewer also commented, the book has quite ...

Reviewed in the United States on October 10, 2014

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As another reviewer also commented, the book has quite a lot of errors. Several paragraphs and diagrams are ambiguous or confusing and can only be deciphered by consulting external sources, which makes this book very frustrating to read. The author strangely didn't choose to move basic material either entirely to the appendices or to cover it completely within the main chapters.

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Complete Musician - book.

Reviewed in the United States on October 26, 2015

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Very good to use as textbook

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E.G.

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on November 23, 2016

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Very information rich book. Worth the money.

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Gail Higdon

Granted, I had an awful teacher...

Reviewed in the United States on June 3, 2013

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Laitz has a pretty good textbook. This one has a number of typos and score errors that make some homework assignments infuriating, but everything is well laid out. Pro tip, the main Chapters of reading material are often very wordy. Be sure to look in the appendixes on the chapters you need to cover before reading through the whole chapter. More often than not I've found all the info I needed in a handful of pages rather than going through several chapters.

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Laurie

Excellent.

Reviewed in the United States on January 9, 2015

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Excellent book. Used in classes at Juilliard-- highly recommend.

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Gary Follett

Well written, easy to understand, logical progression of information, lots of exercises with solutions and explanations

Reviewed in the United States on November 26, 2013

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Well written, easy to understand, logical progression of information, lots of exercises with solutions and explanations, well supported by workbooks.

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Geoff

Nice!

Reviewed in the United States on September 5, 2013

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Nice textbook, lots of good examples from the classical music repertoire. This text makes learning music theory actually relevant. word.

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Huy Le

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on January 28, 2018

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Excellence

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 27, 2016

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Was a tiny bit damaged

Alvarob

Muy bueno

Reviewed in Spain on November 23, 2013

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Organiza, completo y con abundantes ejemplos. Hacen falta más libros claros y útiles como estos. Es triste que pocos de ellos acaben traducidos al castellano.

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Used book, and it still came with the CD. Very Happy.

Reviewed in Canada on March 3, 2017

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Used book, and it still came with the CD. Very Happy.

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G. Flecknell

Don't waste your money

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 21, 2016

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Don't waste your money. There are far better products out there. This book could have been superb but it is so utterly riddled with errors in its examples and exercises as to be worthless. Worse still, OUP have made an utter token effort with providing web access to examples in the book, allowing only very clunky streaming rather than downloading. The theory content itself is good and had it been error checked would be a great resource. Unfortunately the entire book is black and white and where it does have diagrams they look like they were made by a teenager in MS Word. The added teaching notation is unclear and at times very badly formatted. Whilst it could have been great and came highly recommended. for the asking price this book is a sham.

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Holy grail of Theory text books.

Reviewed in Canada on July 29, 2013

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I am a graduate of the Royal Conservatory of Toronto, and York University. If you have any interest in understanding, implementing, or just a curiosity of tonal theory within the context of western music then this is the text book you need. There are also work booklets, however they are not nessecarry. In my opinion this text book is complete, objective and well writen. It comes with a CD, and the exercise interludes throughout each chapter are well placed and force the student to use the knowledge they have gained accumulatively as opposed to dry and arbitrary examples. Thank you Professor Laitz.

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