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Topic: Can anybody recommend a good textbook for RCM Analysis exam?  (Read 5964 times)

Offline abacaba

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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.

Offline j_menz

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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.
"What the world needs is more geniuses with humility. There are so few of us left" -- Oscar Levant

Offline abacaba

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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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