This best-selling text gives music majors and minors a solid foundation in the theory of music. It strengthens their musical intuition; builds technical skills; and helps them gain interpretive insights. The goal of the text is to instruct readers on the practical application of knowledge. The analytical techniques presented are carefully designed to be clear; uncomplicated; and readily applicable to any repertoire. The two-volume format ensures exhaustive coverage and maximum support for students and faculty alike. Volume I serves as a general introduction to music theory while Volume II offers a survey of the theoretical underpinnings of musical styles and forms from Gregorian Chant through the present day. The supplemental instructors materials provide clear-cut solutions to assignment materials. Music in Theory and Practice is a well-rounded textbook that integrates the various components of musical structure and makes them accessible to students at the undergraduate level.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. this book is greatBy Ninjainteresting bookwish there were more picturesI am looking for anything film or recordings of theGhanaian comediancalled "Waterproof "4 of 5 people found the following review helpful. Nothing short of superbBy A CustomerColes study of concert party; a traveling musical theater in Ghana; is nothing short of superb. Not only does she manage to show the history of these itinerant performers and the world they made and remade with every performance; but she uses her analysis of concert party as a way to talk about and problematize the theories and obsessions of our time that sometimes have overdetermined analyses of things African. That concert party performers imitated women; or wore blackface; all complicate our own academic ideas about the performance of gender; or of race; and how those might be different in Africa than in the US or Latin America. Coles manuscript gives us a history of an African musical form in more detail than anything we have had before; and in so doing she gives us a history of class and culture in Ghana that I think will make a strong impact on African history. But it also challenges scholars to think anew about how to understand and interpret African cultural forms; and shows how limiting it isshy;for Africans and for academicsshy; to pidgeon-hole those cultural expressions into examples of buzz words and jargon. This is a book that doesnt just interrogate culture and pronounce it complicated. This is a book that looks the complications firmly in the eye and encourages them to stare right backshy;. Cole animates the complexities and contradictions of popular African culture to make us think more seriously; more carefully; about how race and gender take on meanings and shed connotations in societies increasingly aware of their place in the world.3 of 5 people found the following review helpful. Wait; theres more! A Video!By A CustomerStage-Shakers! Ghanas Concert Party Theatreby Kwame BraunA lively video documentary that brings Ghanas concert party theatre to life.Indiana University PressFor the first time; Western audiences have access to the power and intensity of Ghanas remarkable concert party theatre through Kwame Brauns 100-minute documentary video. Stage-Shakers! brings its festive atmosphere to life by showing backstage preparation - touring; making-up; and practicing - as well as live performance footage. Interviews with key performers; both pioneers and current practitioners; reveal the concert party as a dynamic form of entertainment that is in step with popular fashion; music; song; dance; and social issues. Researched and filmed in collaboration with Catherine M. Cole; this video companion is an important extension of her book; Ghanas Concert Party Theatre.
