A landmark collection of over 200 complete musical compositions and movements, ranging from the Middle Ages to the present, ANTHOLOGY FOR MUSICAL ANALYSIS offers first- and second-year music theory classes a wealth of illustrations of chords, voice-leading techniques, and forms-plus some material for figured-bass realization and score reading. Because this book takes no theoretical position, it is adaptable to any theoretical approach and to any type of curriculum, including those that combine theory study with music literature and the history of musical style.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
Reasonable, print quality issues:
This anthology has a reasonably good selection of classical music works for students. The one thing I noticed regularly throughout, however, is the poor quality of some of the printing which makes some of the scores illegible. Often, the original score has been reduced in size to fit the anthology's page format, thereby reducing the graphic details to the point where they cannot be deciphered even with magnifying glasses.
Music theory:
This analysis provides extensive excerpts, which is good for preparing theory analysis class, however, if the analysis would be provided by the composer, or have the pieces grouped according to their nature / harmonic structure, then the book would be even more beneficial and convenient to many amateurs as well.
Fantastic examples, but no analysis in the book:
The examples and pieces selected are wonderful and cover a vast cross-section of music and I was very excited to see that there are several full orchestral scores included. It is well-organized and neat and overall is clear and concise. However, I was very disappointed that there is really no actual analysis or even much prompting of the music in the book itself. You are expected to do all of the analysis yourself, which is a good exersize, but I was hoping for more professional and technical insight. It is... more info
Women Composers:
When I read the table of contents, I was very very happy to see that this book includes women composers. My theory book from last year did not include any women composers and that made me mad, so I was excited to see Hildegard of Bingen and Ruth Crawford Seeger among others included in this book.
