In the latest installment of the textbook series, I wrote:
The recently renewed series on the dominant ninth chord in treatises and textbooks began with comment on six volumes from the early 20th century: link to the first post. I am now leading us toward the present again with two items from the 1960s and 1970s.
Those were Aldwell & Schachter Tonal Harmony and William Christ et al Materials and Structure of Music. Link to that post. I happened to have early editions as physical copies. For the more recent ones listed below, I needed a couple trips to a local university library; as of today, the second of those trips is delayed a week till the intense semester-end schedule of classes and performances is finished.
The list is chronological and I will follow that sequence, but I will start with Vessela Stoyanova and Jeff Perry, Berklee Contemporary Music Theory (2024) because I regard it as the best exposition of current theory and pedagogy. At some point in the process, I will also write a post covering some online resources.
Leo Kraft, Gradus 2d year and after (1990)
Steven G. Laitz, Graduate Review of Tonal Theory (2010)
Miguel Roig-Francoli, Harmony in Context (2011)
Joseph Straus, Elements of Music. 3d ed. (2012)
Jennifer Snodgrass, Contemporary Musicianship (2015)
Thomas Benjamin, Techniques and Materials of Music from the Common Practice Period through the Twentieth Century. 7th ed. (2015)
Steven G. Laitz, The Complete Musician: an Integrated Approach to Theory, Analysis, and Listening. 4th ed. (2016)
L. Poundie Burstein and Joseph Straus, Concise Introduction to Tonal Harmony (2016)
Kevin Holm-Hudson, Music Theory Remixed: A Blended Approach for the Practicing Musician (2017)
Stefan Kostka, Dorothy Payne, and Byron Almén, Tonal Harmony with an Introduction to Post-tonal Music. 8th ed. (2018)
Edward Aldwell, Carl Schachter, and Allen Cadwallader, Harmony & Voice Leading. 5th ed. (2019). See the original post for an update: Link to that post.
Ralph Turek, Theory for Today's Musician. 3rd ed. (2019)
Jane Piper Clendinning, The Musician's Guide to Theory and Analysis. 4th ed. (2021)
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