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Title: Tonal Harmony, With an Introduction to Twentieth-Century Music by Stefan Kostka ISBN: 0-07-241570-3 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages Pub. Date: February, 2000 Format: Hardcover List Price(USD): $63.90 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.31 (13 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Tonal Harmony and a competent professor, make a great team
Comment: Being a student at West Chester Univ. of PA's School of Music, I have had ample time to monitor it's effectivness and compare it to "Elementry Harmony," which I have also used. What I have found is that a good professor can do an excelent job while a lesser professor can do a lesser job. It's highlights include it's many useful exercises as well as it's well planed cronologicial order. While some of the text's language can be somewhat confusing, I have found few books that have made it eaiser to explain these same topics. In closing I would like to add that any student who truly has, or potentially has, a clear understanding of music theory should have no difficulty understanding the contents of this fine text.
Rating: 3
Summary: the errors edition
Comment: Kostka and Payne did a great job with their theory, although there are some disputes. The problem with this edition is the vast amounts of errors in it's pages. Because of the rush to publish it, even elementary students can point out the errors in both textbook and workbook.
Rating: 4
Summary: review for the fifth edition
Comment: I'm a guitar major and this book, to some extent, frustrates me. All the examples are given on the piano. I have a limited knowledge of piano. That aside, I had no problems understanding the book, especially the parts about the various kinds of chords. However, the book features several obvious mistakes, such as an instance where a 32nd note is listed as a 16th note (how obvious could you get? It's not as though you could miss the extra stem!) In a few other instances the book mismarks a few chords. It also has several typos in it, which caught me by surprise. This book is also a little dry. But as far as music theory books go, I have seen far, far worse. This book is the better of the lot. I've seen more errors an mismarkings in my guitar and bass guitar books, so I gave this one 4 stars. It's not too bad.
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Title: Student Workbook and CD for use with Tonal Harmony by Stefan Kostka, Dorothy Payne ISBN: 0073035122 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages Pub. Date: 28 July, 1999 List Price(USD): $38.00 |
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Title: Audio CDs for use with Tonal Harmony by Kostka-Payne, Stefan Kostka, Dorothy Payne ISBN: 0072897856 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages Pub. Date: 22 July, 1999 List Price(USD): $26.65 |
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Title: Tonal Harmony Wkbk with Wkbk Audio CD and Finale CD-ROM by Stefan Kostka, Dorothy Payne ISBN: 0072918969 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages Pub. Date: 13 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $40.15 |
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Title: A New Approach to Sight Singing by Sol Berkowitz, Gabriel Fontrier, Leo Kraft ISBN: 0393969088 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: June, 1997 List Price(USD): $62.50 |
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Title: A History of Western Music, Sixth Edition by Donald J. Grout, Claude V. Palisca ISBN: 0393975274 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: December, 2000 List Price(USD): $69.60 |
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