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The Practice of Harmony Spiral-bound – 28 July 2011

by Peter Spencer D.M.A. (Author), Barbara Bennett (Author)
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A thorough introduction to harmony in common practice.

Takes students from the fundamentals of harmony including harmony in common practice and some of the more important harmonic procedures of the 20th century.

With an emphasis on learning and understanding by doing, this text/workbook combination takes students from music fundamentals through harmony in common practice to some of the more important harmonic procedures of the 20th century. The approach is “additive” throughout, allowing students to use what was learned in one chapter to help comprehension of the materials in the next. This allows for minimum of memorization since students repeatedly use the concepts throughout the semester.

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Improve Critical Thinking- Students learn that harmony may be understood as a continuum rather than a series of unrelated elements.

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  1. Print length
    432 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Pearson
  4. Publication date
    28 July 2011
  5. Dimensions
    21.34 x 1.52 x 27.43 cm
  6. ISBN-10
    0205717195
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0205717194
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About the Author

Barbara Bennett is a Lecturer in the Department of Music at the University of California, Riverside, where she teaches a three-part series of classes on harmonic theory. A composer and pianist as well as a teacher, Dr. Bennett is active in the College Music Society and the National Association of Composers, USA (NACUSA), having served as an officer on both national boards. Besides harmony, she also teaches Advanced Music Fundamentals and Introduction to Western Music at UC Riverside. She earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in music at the University of Georgia, and her D. M. from The Florida State University.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pearson; 6th edition (28 July 2011)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Spiral-bound ‏ : ‎ 432 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0205717195
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0205717194
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 21.34 x 1.52 x 27.43 cm
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It was in brand new shape. I'm so glad I got it for a good price and was basically brand new. I got it just in time for my class. Thank you!
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Horacio Fernandez
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The seller was great the book has a lot of weird ways of explaining. Good for my course at college
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Rita
4.0 out of 5 stars The practice of harmony
Reviewed in the United States on 28 January 2013
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When I got htis book in the mail I have to be honest I was very dissapointed with the packageing it came in. It got wet I wasn't happy about that. It said (new) but when I see (new) I expect it to be with out creases or wet. Over all it has all the pages that I need and because of that I wont be mean and give this the deserving 3 stars. Better packageing next time not card board but and actual bubble wrap bag.
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Just what my son needed for college
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent.
Reviewed in the United States on 13 January 2011
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My son is a music major and this book has been helpful so many times. Great theory practice book.
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