Theory Core Course Materials
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Ear Training
Keyboard
Harmony & Counterpoint
Form & Analysis



Ear Training

MU113 Ear Training 1
MU114 Ear Training 2
MU213 Ear Training 3
MU214 Ear Training 4

TBC RHYTHM BOOK
available from the Music Division Office

MELODIA: A COURSE IN SIGHTSINGING
Samuel Cole and Leo Lewis
Theodore Presser Co., 2004
ISBN: 9789200129384


AN ENGLISH MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE SONG BOOK
Noah Greenberg (Editor)
Dover Publications, 2000
ISBN: 9780486413747

371 FOUR-PART CHORALES
Johann Sebastian Bach           
Alfred Publishing Company, 1985
ISBN: 9780769240916


MU313 Ear Training 5
MU314 Ear Training 6

MODUS NOVUS
Lars Edlund
Beekman Books Inc., 1990
ISBN: 9780846441564

TBC RHYTHM BOOK
see MU113 Ear Training 1


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Keyboard

MU161 Keyboard Skills 1
TBC BOOK OF SCALES, ARPEGGIOS, AND CADENCES
available from the Music Division Office

MIKROKOSMOS, VOLUME 1
Bela Bartok
Boosey & Hawkes, 1987
ISBN: 9790060080012


MU162 Keyboard Skills 2
MIKROKOSMOS, VOLUME 2
Bela Bartok
Boosey & Hawkes, 1987
ISBN: 9790060080029

CONTINUO PLAYING ACCORDING TO HANDEL: HIS FIGURED BASS EXERCISES
David Ledbetter (Editor)
Oxford University Press, 1990
ISBN: 9780193184336

TBC BOOK OF SCALES, ARPEGGIOS, AND CADENCES
see MU161 Keyboard Skills 1

MIKROKOSMOS, VOLUME 1
see MU161 Keyboard Skills 1


MU173 Piano Class 1
TBC PIANO CLASS BOOK
available from the Music Division Office

MIKROKOSMOS VOLUME 3
Bela Bartok
Boosey & Hawkes, 1987
ISBN: 9790060080036

MIKROKOSMOS, VOLUME 2
see MU162 Keyboard Skills 2

CONTINUO PLAYING ACCORDING TO HANDEL: HIS FIGURED BASS EXERCISES
see MU162 Keyboard Skills 2


MU174 Piano Class 2

CONTINUO PLAYING ACCORDING TO HANDEL: HIS FIGURED BASS EXERCISES
see MU162 Keyboard Skills 2

MIKROKOSMOS, VOLUME 3
see MU173 Piano Class 1

TBC PIANO CLASS BOOK
see MU173 Piano Class 1


MU261 Keyboard Theory 1

MIKROKOSMOS VOLUME 4
Bela Bartok
Boosey & Hawkes, 1987
ISBN: 9781423440680

CONTINUO PLAYING ACCORDING TO HANDEL: HIS FIGURED BASS EXERCISES
see MU162 Keyboard Skills 2


MU261 Keyboard Theory 2
371 FOUR-PART CHORALES
Johann Sebastian Bach           
Alfred Publishing Company, 1985
ISBN: 9780769240916

MIKROKOSMOS VOLUME 4
see MU262 Keyboard Theory 1

CONTINUO PLAYING ACCORDING TO HANDEL: HIS FIGURED BASS EXERCISES
see MU162 Keyboard Skills 2


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Harmony & Counterpoint
MU111 Music Fundamentals
MU115 Harmony & Counterpoint 1
THE MUSIC THEORY HANDBOOK
Marjorie Merryman
Wadsworth Publishing, 1996
ISBN: 9780155026629


371 FOUR-PART CHORALES
Johann Sebastian Bach           
Alfred Publishing Company, 1985
ISBN: 9780769240916

WHAT TO LISTEN FOR IN MUSIC
Aaron Copland
Signet Classics, 2002
ISBN: 9780451528674

TBC PIANO CLASS BOOK
available from the Music Division Office


MU116 Harmony & Counterpoint 2
VARIATIONS, RONDOS, AND OTHER WORKS FOR PIANO
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Dover Publications
ISBN: 9780486268828

THE MUSIC THEORY HANDBOOK
371 FOUR-PART CHORALES
WHAT TO LISTEN FOR IN MUSIC
TBC PIANO CLASS BOOK

see MU115 Harmony & Counterpoint 1


MU215 Harmony & Counterpoint 3
COMPLETE SONG CYCLES
Franz Schubert
Dover Publications
ISBN: 9780486226491

THE MUSIC THEORY HANDBOOK
371 FOUR-PART CHORALES
WHAT TO LISTEN FOR IN MUSIC
TBC PIANO CLASS BOOK
see MU115 Harmony & Counterpoint 1



MU216 Harmony & Counterpoint 4

PIANO SONATAS VOLUME 1
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Dover Publications
ISBN: 9780486231341

PRELUDES, OP. 28
Frederic Chopin
W.W. Norton & Co.; 1974
ISBN: 9780393096996

THE MUSIC THEORY HANDBOOK
371 FOUR-PART CHORALES
WHAT TO LISTEN FOR IN MUSIC
TBC PIANO CLASS BOOK
see MU115 Harmony & Counterpoint 1


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Form & Analysis
MU317 Form & Analysis 1: Sonata and Variation

TBC SONATA/VARIATION ANTHOLOGY
available from the Music Division Office


MU318 Form & Analysis 2: Fugue and Counterpoint
CONTINUO PLAYING ACCORDING TO HANDEL: HIS FIGURED BASS EXERCISES
David Ledbetter (Editor)
Oxford University Press, 1990
ISBN: 9780193184336

THE WELL-TEMPERED CLAVIER: BOOKS 1 AND 2
Johann Sebastian Bach
Dover Publications
ISBN: 9780486245324

LATE STRING QUARTETS AND THE GROSSE FUGE
Ludwig van Beethoven
Dover Publications, 1998
ISBN: 9780486401119


MU417 Form & Analysis 3: 20th-Century Analysis
MUSIC IN THE WESTERN WORLD: A HISTORY IN DOCUMENTS
Piero Weiss and Richard Taruskin

Schirmer; 1st Edition, 1984
ISBN: 9780028729008

TWENTIETH-CENTURY MUSIC: A HISTORY OF MUSICAL STYLE IN MODERN EUROPE
AND AMERICA
Robert P. Morgan
W.W. Norton & Co.; 1st edition, 1991
ISBN: 9780393952728

ANTHOLOGY OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY MUSIC
Robert P. Morgan
W.W. Norton & Co.; 1st edition, 1992
ISBN: 9780393952841

QUATUOR POUR LA FIN DU TEMPS
Olivier Messiaen
Editions Durand
Catalog No: HL.50561457

SYMPHONY OP.21
Anton Webern
Universal Edition
ISBN: 978M008022976


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