Tonal Music Theory - textbooks


Aldwell & Schacter. Harmony and Voice Leading. 

Boatwright, Howard. Introduction to the theory of music. New York, 
W. W. Norton [1956]

Clendenin, William R. Music history and theory. Garden City, N.Y., 
Doubleday, 1965.

Cogan, Robert and Pozzi Escot.  Sonic Design.  Englewood Cliffs:      
Prentice-Hall, 1976.

Cooper, Paul. Perspectives in music theory; an historical-analytical 
approach. New York, Dodd, Mead, 1973.

Des Marais, Paul. Harmony: a workbook in fundamentals. New York: W. W. 
Norton, 1962. "Intended to be a corollary to Walter Piston's Harmony 
(third edition)."

Epstein, David. Beyond Orpheus: studies in musical structure. Cambridge, 
Mass.: MIT Press, c1979.

Erickson, Robert, 1917-. The structure of music: a listener's guide; a 
study of music in terms of melody and counterpoint. New York, Noonday 
Press, 1955.

Ferguson, Donald Nivison, 1882-. A history of musical thought. New 
York, Appleton-Century-Crofts [1959].

Forte, Alan. Tonal Harmony in Concept and Practice.

Graziano, John Michael. A theory of accent in tonal music of the 
classic-romantic period. 1975.       

Hauptmann, Moritz, 1792-1868. The nature of harmony and metre. New  
York: Da Capo Press. 1991. 

Hindemith, Paul. Elementary Training for Musicians. NY: Associated, 1946,
1949.

Jannery, Arthur. Workbook for Piston/Devoto harmony (4th ed.) New York; 
London: Norton, 1979.

Komar, Arthur J. Theory of suspensions; a study of metrical and pitch 
relations in tonal music. 1971.     

Kostka & Payne. Tonal Harmony. 

Lerdahl, Fred, 1943-. A generative theory of tonal music. Cambridge, 
Mass.: MIT Press, c1983.

Lester, Joel. The rhythms of tonal music. Carbondale: Southern Illinois
University Press. 1986.

Lipps, Theodor, 1851-1914. Consonance and dissonance in music. San 
Marino, CA: Everett Books. 1995. 

Morgan, Robert P. The delayed structural downbeat and its effect on the 
tonal... diss.1969.

Parkhurst, Winthrop. The anatomy of music; a complete popular outline 
of musical theory. New York, London, A. A. Knopf, 1930.

Piston, Walter, 1894-1976. Harmony. New York: W. W. Norton & 
company, inc., 1941. "first edition." (2) Pub. for the United States 
Armed Forces Institute by W. W. Norton & Company, inc., 1944: Madison, 
Wis.: U.S.War Dept. Education manual EM 601. (3) Rev. ed., 1948. (4) 3rd 
ed. 1962. (4.1)  3d ed., 1969. (5)  4th ed. DeVoto, Mark., 1978. (6) 5th ed., 
1987.

Rothstein, William Nathan. Phrase rhythm in tonal music. New York,
N.Y.: Schirmer Books. 1989.

Salzer, Felix. Structural hearing; tonal coherence in music. New York: 
Dover Publications, 1962. 

Sorce, Richard. Music Theory for the Music Professional. A Comparison
of Common-Practice and Popular Genres. NY: Ardsley House, 1995.

Tenney, James. A History of Consonance and Dissonance. University 
of Toronto Press. Tenney describes five different major usages of 
the terms consonance and dissonance (or equivalents) between 
classical Greece and the present.

Toch, Ernst, 1887-. The shaping forces in music, an inquiry into 
harmomy, melody, counterpoint, form. New York, Criterion Music Corp.
 [1948]

Weidig, Adolf. Harmonic Material and its Uses: A Treatise for Teachers,
Students and Music Lovers. Chicago: Clayton F. Summy, 1924.

Zuckerkandl, Victor. The sense of music. Princeton, N. J., Princeton 
University Press, 1959.

5/94