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Can anybody recommend a good textbook for RCM Analysis exam?
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abacaba
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Can anybody recommend a good textbook for RCM Analysis exam?
on: May 21, 2013, 04:39:13 AM
Can anybody recommend a good textbook for RCM Analysis exam for self-study? Here's the syllabus:
Candidates should be prepared to provide detailed harmonic and structural analysis of and answer questions about the following musical forms and elements:
1. Fugues from J S Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier, books 1 and 2.
2. Instrumental works (Classical and romantic periods) in the forms: binary; rounded binary; ternary; theme and variations; rondo including sonata-rondo; sonata form.
3. Art songs (19th century) :
* solo songs inn strophic, modified strophic, or through-composed forms,
* the relationship of text and music.
4. Short post-1900 works:
* scales: Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian, Locrian, chromatic, whole-tone, pentatonic, octatonic, blues
* chords: triad based chords, quartal chords, clusters, polychords
* textures: pedal, ostinato, parallelism, contrary motion, imitation
* manipulation of melodic ideas: transposition, octave displacement, inversion, retrograde, retrograde-inversion.
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j_menz
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Re: Can anybody recommend a good textbook for RCM Analysis exam?
Reply #1 on: May 21, 2013, 04:48:05 AM
RCM publishes an annotated of recommended readings for their theory exams, which you can find here (pdf)
Annotated List
There's quite a lot on it.
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abacaba
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Re: Can anybody recommend a good textbook for RCM Analysis exam?
Reply #2 on: May 23, 2013, 06:21:06 PM
So many books ...
@@"
Do people have a life? ....
Anywayz thanks for the list, I am beginning to read Burkhart, Charles Anthology for Musical Analysis.
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