Theory : Classical

Robert Gauldin  

Eric Chafe   JS Bach's cantatas are among the highest achievements of Western musical art, yet studies of the individual cantatas that are both illuminating... [read more]

William E. Caplin  

Kent Kennan   Used in music colleges around the globe, this established text introduces the contrapuntal style of 17th and 18th century music through analysis... [read more]

Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky  

Walter Piston  

Lorenzo Bianconi,Giorgio Pestelli,Kenneth Chalmers,Mary Whittall  

Allen Forte  

   This is it, the big-daddy of Counterpoint books. Johann Fux wrote it in 1725, and virtually every great composer since then (Brahms,... [read more]

Alfred Mann  

Jean-Philippe Rameau   This is one of the most important books in the history of Western music. First published in 1722, Rameau synthesized the musical... [read more]

Paul Mark Walker   This is a fine and valuable book, encyclopaedic in its coverage of the subject, and the only treatment (in any language) of... [read more]

Stephen E. Hefling  

David Kopp, Ian Bent   David Kopp's book develops a model of chromatic chord relations in nineteenth-century music by composers such as Schubert, Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann, and... [read more]

Joel Lester  

Harald Krebs   Fantasy Pieces examines from several vantage points a vital life-force of Robert Schumann's music, namely metrical conflict. Harald Krebs's imaginative yet rigorous... [read more]

Mary Ann Parker  

Benjamin McKay Ayotte   Schenker's eloquence teaches us about what a good theory is, how art differs from science, and of course about the music itself.... [read more]

Peter Schubert   This is the only species counterpoint book that uses examples and concepts taken directly from sixteenth-century treatises and contemporaneous theoretical sources. The... [read more]

Suzannah Clark,Alexander Rehding  

Cristle Collins Judd,Ian Bent  

Beate Julia Perrey,Ian Bent  

James Haar   Spanning three decades, this selection of articles by the distinguished scholar James Haar forms an ideal introduction to his studies into 16th... [read more]