Form in Tonal Music

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Summary: used this text in undergrad GREAT!
Review: I used this text in my undergradaute study of music and find it to be useful even today. Greens' explanations along with exerpts and examples makes form in music an interesting facet. It is for those who are ready to dive into form and analysis head first. I would not recommend it to a beginner with little or no hard-core theory knowledge.

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Summary: used this text in undergrad GREAT!
Review: I used this text in my undergradaute study of music and find it to be useful even today. Greens' explanations along with exerpts and examples makes form in music an interesting facet. It is for those who are ready to dive into form and analysis head first. I would not recommend it to a beginner with little or no hard-core theory knowledge.

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Summary: What you must know before you buy this!
Review: If you are using this book in a class then your teacher will guide you through it, BUT--if you are using this book to review music theory you must know a few things. 1) ALL the exercises in this book come out of the Burkhart Anthology, so you must purchase that as well. 2)There are no answers supplied for ANYof the exercises. 3) This book covers the analytical form of music (types of phrases, binary and ternary forms), it is assumed you are skilled in complex chord and harmonic analysis already. Overall, the book is fairly clear and well-organized and uses plenty of musical examples.

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Summary: Book bought for a class in school
Review: This book, Form in Tonal Music, isn't the best of books for use in classes. I have found from using it that it give great examples, however, it doesn't explain definitions of words very well at all. If you are looking for a good book for examples to go with another book that you might be using on the same subject, then I would recomend it. However, if this book is going to be used without another guide, I don't recomend it.

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Summary: Book bought for a class in school
Review: This book, Form in Tonal Music, isn't the best of books for use in classes. I have found from using it that it give great examples, however, it doesn't explain definitions of words very well at all. If you are looking for a good book for examples to go with another book that you might be using on the same subject, then I would recomend it. However, if this book is going to be used without another guide, I don't recomend it.