Music Theory Books

ABRSM’s Music Theory exams at Grades 6-8 cover harmony and counterpoint, composition, and a broad knowledge of western music, including composers and their works, structure, style and period. Music Th...

Aural Training in Practice offers valuable support to teachers preparing students for ABRSM exams. It is available in three volumes covering Grades 1-3, Grades 4 & 5 and Grades 6-8. Each volume includ...

The Music Theory in Practice series has helped more than one million musicians worldwide to learn about the notation and theory of music.-Now fully revised this workbook remains the best way to prepar...

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Drei Sonaten und drei Partiten für Violine ohne Begleitung wurden von Johann Sebastian Bach im Jahr 1720 zum Werkzyklus der Sei Solo á Violino senza Basso accompagnato. Während seiner Amtszeit als Ho...

The series is a supplement for Music Theory for Young Children, with exercises organized to focus on single concepts for easy acquisition. Systematic: Fun, interactive activities like tracing, colorin...

This is a primer in jazz theory, intended to prepare the student for the serious study of jazz improvisation, arrangement and composition. The focus is on the harmonic language of jazz, especially the...

Le Livre de la Theorie du Jazz' by Mark Levine is one of the most comprehensive studies of jazz harmony and theory ever written. It takes the student from the most basic jazz concepts through bebop an...

Jazz harmony, as taught at the Berklee College of Music is based on the so called Chord Scale Theory. This method-further developed-is now available as a comprehensive textbook. Emerged from practice...

Inspired by the music of Wayne Shorter, Chick Corea, The Yellowjackets and others, this text is a clear, concise study of contemporary harmonic progressions that are created and derived from the melod...

This book is devoted to the forgotten chords from harmonic minor and harmonic major. As far as that goes, it is addressed to the advanced musician who already has the theoretical basis at his disposal...

The understanding of the musical techniques of composition cannot be reduced to a handbook of simplified rules. Music is complex and ever changing. It is the purpose of this book to trace the path of...

This Harmonic System complementary to traditional harmony aims at making the contemporary harmonic language effortlessly accessible to everyone interested. Unlike other harmonic systems or treatises o...

Jazz has evolved its own harmony apart from other genres of music. In order to improvise and compose in the idiom, a basic understanding of this harmony - how chords move and connect with each other -...

Jerry presents an easy-to-understand no nonsense approach for quickly analyzing any tune to make it easier to understand, transpose, and improvise over. Thinking in Roman numerals, recognizing the com...

French organist and composer, Marcel Dupré (1886-1971) is also remembered as a significant pedagogue. His Cours D'Harmonie Analytique is an excellent aid to the important technique. Suitabl...

Conservatoire - Harmonie

Conservatoire - Harmonie

Conservatoire - Harmonie

Conservatoire - Harmonie

Theory needn't be boring! Master the basics with these music theory puzzles and games, with helpful hints from a motley crew of cartoon characters. Great preparation for theory exams and helpful for y...