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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

Average Customer Rating:

Alright

Customer Rating:

The book is fairly comprehensive, but it is rife with mistakes, both in the literature and the workbook. The authors also make use of non-standard terms frequently. You can certainly learn a great deal from the book, but it's not without obvious drawbacks. The Rutger's University faculty recently tested the book over a two year period and have discontinued its use due to student feedback and teacher opinion.

A Five Star Winner for Self-Study

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I bought this book after thoroughly researching music theory book possibilities here. I have been studying music theory in a class with the Benward book, but I did not do well as I wanted on a placement test for university transfer, and I do not easily understand Benward. When this book arrived, it did not take me long to know this is just what I am looking for to review music theory on my own. I opened to figured bass and there were easy to understand verbal and musical explanations right there that took a year for me to understand in theory class. Wish I had this book last year, I would have understood the key concepts in a day. I like also that there are many exercises I can do to test my knowledge, and answers are in the back. Verbal explanations are clear, in a friendly, conversational style, there are many musical examples, key concepts are clearly indicated in blue, and each chapter has an outline right at the beginning indicating what is to be covered. This book is very well organized, there's an appendix of key definitions in the back, and it is easy to locate topics by accessing the index and the table of contents. Nothing dry about this book. The authors make reference to examples in the accompanying anthology and CD set. I do not have this, as I have access to many of these examples at another site, but I might also buy this for convenience. I also bought the workbook, but, with the opportunity to do assignments and have answers in the back of the book, I don't think I really needed the workbook. The layout is very pleasing, popular as well as classical music is referenced for examples, although this is more about classical musical theory, and the authors have done an exemplary job.

Good beginning theory book	Customer Rating:
I'm a college music student, and we're using this book in my first year theory classes. It is pretty in-depth and explains the material well. It has key points summaries throughout the chapter, which shortens the time one needs to take notes =P

A+ seller	Customer Rating:
Product arrived in great time and in great condition. Definitely an A+ seller!