Product Description

The Musician's Guide to Aural Skills teaches the skills of complete musicianship, integrating aural training and performance in one comprehensive pedagogical program.

The Musician's Guide Series features:

• The newest developments in tonal and contemporary theory and analysis
• A familiar core repertoire, revisited throughout the theory text in different contexts, that exposes students to a wide range of musical genres—choral and instrumental, solo and ensemble—from Western classical to pop and jazz
• An anthology of complete musical works complemented by professional performances on a three-CD set
• An extensive collection of written, aural, and keyboard exercises to reinforce key concepts

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #130908 in Books
• Published on: 2004-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Plastic Comb
• 560 pages

About the Author
Jane Piper Clendinning is an associate professor of music theory at the Florida State University School of Music. Professor Clendinning has published articles reflecting her interests in the history of theory, theory and analysis of recent twentieth-century music, computer pitch recognition, and computer applications in music theory. She teaches undergraduate courses in eighteenth-century counterpoint, twentieth-century styles, music since World War II, accelerated music theory, and graduate courses in the history of music theory, atonal analysis, and other topics related to twentieth-century music.


Elizabeth West Marvin is professor of music theory and former dean of academic affairs at the Eastman School of Music. She has published in the areas of music cognition, music theory pedagogy, theory and analysis of atonal music, contour theory, history of theory, and analysis and performance. Her articles and reviews appear in numerous journals, including Music Perception, Music Theory Spectrum, Journal of Music Theory, Theory and Practice, and others. She is a past president of the Society for Music Theory, the national professional society for music theorists.


Joel Phillips is professor of music composition and theory at Westminster Choir College of Rider University. His music has received a number of awards and is published by G. Schirmer, Inc., Transcontinental Music Publications, GIA, and Shawnee Press. A member of the Editorial Review Board of The Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy, Phillips served for five years as chief faculty consultant for the Advanced Placement Examination in Music Theory.