How to Understand Music: A Concise Course in Musical Intelligence and Taste
A practical late-nineteenth-century course in musical listening and analysis, combining object lessons, essays, terminology and reference material.
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A practical late-nineteenth-century course in musical listening and analysis, combining object lessons, essays, terminology and reference material.
A Course of Instruction in Instrumentation is a historical teaching text in instrumentation / orchestration, representing the conservatory-oriented theoretical practice of the nineteenth or early twentieth century. It is organized to move from definitions and worked examples toward increasingly complex compositional applications.
A Course of Counterpoint and Fugue is a historical teaching text in counterpoint / fugue treatise, representing the conservatory-oriented theoretical practice of the nineteenth or early twentieth century. It is organized to move from definitions and worked examples toward increasingly complex compositional applications.