The Complete Musician

Name: The Complete Musician
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ISBN: 9780190924508

An Integrated Approach to Theory, Analysis, and Listening

by Steven G. Laitz, Michael R. Callahan

5th Edition

Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Print ISBN	9780190924508
eText ISBN	9780190924522
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Publishing Year	2023
Edition	5th Edition
Language	English
Pages	960

The Complete Musician: An Integrated Approach to Theory, Analysis, and Listening, 5th Edition, is a comprehensive textbook designed for undergraduate music theory instruction. The opening chapters establish essential foundations in musical space, time, and distance, introducing core principles across pitches, scales, keys, meter, rhythm, and intervals.

The text moves from basic pitch and rhythmic combinations into counterpoint, embellishing tones, triads, seventh chords, and texture. Voice leading principles connect to the phrase model, pre-dominant functions, submediant harmonies, and mediant progressions. Structural analysis then expands across formal models, guiding students through periods, sentences, double periods, asymmetric periods, binary form, ternary form, rondo form, and sonata form.

The final chapters present complex chromatic harmony and twentieth-century analytical methods, covering Neapolitan chords, augmented-sixth chords, set analysis, and metrical or serial techniques. This systematic progression offers targeted analytical practice for undergraduate music theory students, performing musicians, and student composers.

Chapter 1A: Musical Space: Pitches, Scales, and Keys
Chapter 1B: Musical Time: Meter and Rhythm
Chapter 1C: Musical Distance: Intervals
Chapter 2: Pitch and Meter Combine: Melody and Counterpoint
Chapter 3: Triads, Seventh Chords, and Texture
Chapter 4: The Role of Context: Embellishing Tones and Melodic Shape
Chapter 5: Tonic, Dominant, and Voice Leading
Chapter 6: V7 and Two-Level Analysis
Chapter 7: Expanding Tonic and Dominant with First-Inversion Triads
Chapter 8: Inversions of V7 and Leading-Tone Seventh Chords
Chapter 9: The Pre-Dominant Function and the Phrase Model
Chapter 10: Accented and Chromatic Embellishing Tones
Chapter 11: Six-Four Chords and Plagal Motions
Chapter 12: Pre-Dominant Seventh Chords and Embedded Phrase Models
Chapter 13: The Submediant and the Step-Descent Bass
Chapter 14: The Mediant and the Back-Relating Dominant
Chapter 15: Periods
Chapter 16: Sentences, Double Periods, and Asymmetric Periods
Chapter 17: Applied Chords
Chapter 18: Modulation
Chapter 19: Harmonic Sequences
Chapter 20: Binary Form and Variations
Chapter 21: Modal Mixture
Chapter 22: Chromatic Modulation and Text-Music Relations
Chapter 23: Neapolitan Chords
Chapter 24: Augmented-Sixth Chords
Chapter 25: Ternary Form
Chapter 26: Rondo Form
Chapter 27: Sonata Form
Chapter 28: Tonal Ambiguity and Symmetrically Constructed Harmonies
Chapter 29: Symmetry Stretches Tonality: Chromatic Sequences and Equal Divisions of the Octave
Chapter 30: Centricity, Extended and Non-Tertian Sonorities, and Collections
Chapter 31: Analysis with Sets
Chapter 32: Metrical and Serial Techniques