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Book Adoptions (2012-13)

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MUSC 115, 116 Music Theory I, II

Stefan Kostka and Dorothy Payne, Tonal Harmony: With An Introduction to Twentieth-Century Music, 7th ed. (New York: McGraw Hill, 2013). 7/e release date: 6/28/2012.

K/P 7/e Textbook/Workbook ISBN-13: 9780077658236

MUSC 215, 216 Music Theory III, IV

MUSC 215 & 216 will continue to use K/P 6/e.

6/e Textbook ISBN-10: 0073401358; 6/e Workbook ISBN-10: 0077269969

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Aural Skills I-IV (MUSC 117, 118, 217 & 218)

Robert Ottman and Nancy Rogers,
Music for Sight Singing, 8th ed.
(Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2010).

Textbook ISBN-10: 0205760082

 

 

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MUSC 114 Introduction to Music Theory

Joseph N. Straus, Elements of Music, 3rd ed.
(Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2011).

Textbook ISBN-10: 0205007090

 

 

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MUSC 523 Materials and Techniques of Tonal Music

Steven G. Laitz and Christopher Bartlette, Graduate Review of Tonal Theory: A Recasting of Common-Practice Harmony, Form, and Counterpoint (Oxford University Press, 2009).

Textbook & Student Workbook ISBN-13: 978-0-19-538628-8

 

 

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MUSC 525 Post-Tonal Theory

Joseph N. Straus, Introduction to Post-Tonal Theory, 3rd ed.
(Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2004).

Textbook ISBN-10: 0131898906

 

 

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MUSC 529 Eighteenth-Century Counterpoint

Robert Gauldin, A Practical Approach to Eighteenth-Century Counterpoint. (Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press, 1995).

 

Textbook ISBN-10: 0881338532

 

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MUSC 720 Pedagogy of Music Theory

Michael R. Rogers, Teaching Approaches in Music Theory: An Overview of Pedagogical Philosophies , 2nd ed. (Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2004).

Textbook ISBN-10: 0809325950

 

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MUSC 725 Contemporary Styles II (1945-80)

David Cope, New Directions in Music , 7th ed. (Waveland Press: Longrove, IL, 2000).

Textbook ISBN-10: 1577661087

 

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MUSC 727 Schenkerian Analysis

Allen Cadwallader and David Gagné. Analysis of Tonal Music, 3rd ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010).

Textbook ISBN-10: 0199732477

 

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MUSC 729 Contrapuntal Techniques

Thomas Benjamin. The Craft of Tonal Counterpoint, 2nd ed. (New York: Routledge, 2003).

Textbook ISBN-10: 0415943914

 

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