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T E C H N I Q U E S A N D M AT E R I A L S
                    of
                MUSIC
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T E C H N I Q U E S A N D M AT E R I A L S
                                of
                       MUSIC
                           FROM
T H E C O M M O N P R ACT I C E P E R I O D
                         Through
T H E T W E N T I ET H C E N T U RY
Seventh Edition
                   Thomas Benjamin
                 Peabody Conservatory
              The Johns Hopkins University
                      Michael Horvit
                 Moores School of Music
                The University of Houston
                      Robert Nelson
                 Moores School of Music
                The University of Houston
© 2008, 2003 Thomson Schirmer, a part of The Thomson              Thomson Higher Education
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Contents
Preface                                     ix
Suggestions to the Instructor               xi
                                        Part I   Rudiments
 1   The Great Staff and Piano Keyboard      3     5   Key Signatures                       15
 2   Accidentals                             4     6   Triads                               17
 3   Intervals                               6     7   Meter and Rhythm                     19
 4   Major and Minor Scales                 13
                                                                                           vii
                           Part IV         Twentieth-Century Materials
 1     Twentieth-Century Techniques:                 7   Exotic (Artificial, Synthetic) Scales   202
       General Comments                       181    8   Quartal and Secondal Harmony            206
 2     Further Comments for Analysis          183    9   Polyharmony and Polytonality            209
 3     Rhythmic and Metric Devices            187   10   Free Atonality                          213
 4     Tertian Harmony                        191   11   Twelve-Tone Serialism                   218
 5     The Diatonic (Church) Modes            196   12   Additional Contemporary Procedures      224
 6     Pandiatonicism                         199
Bibliography                                  301
Index                                         303
viii     CONTENTS
Preface
Techniques and Materials of Music, Seventh Edi-            that were gradually refined and reorganized
tion, is intended to be used as a text for the first two   until they coalesced into their current form. It
years of college theory courses, not including ear         embodies our belief that directness and leanness
training and sight-singing. The subject matter             of approach are desirable, as well as a firm con-
includes a study of the rudiments of musical mate-         viction that the focus of any music course should
rials; the harmonic, melodic, rhythmic, and basic          be on the music itself. Toward this end, the book
formal procedures of the common practice period;           is intended to be used with a well-organized
and an introduction to the compositional tech-             anthology of graduated musical examples, such
niques developed during the twentieth century.             as our Music for Analysis, Sixth Edition (New
Entering students without strong backgrounds               York: Oxford, 2006), whose content and organiza-
might need to take a preliminary course in rudi-           tion exactly parallel this text. This allows the
ments, or, at minimum, spend the first month or            student to see the larger context in which the
so using a separate fundamentals workbook.                 material under study occurs and to see it used in
   This book fills a need that standard theory             a variety of styles and textures.
textbooks do not satisfy. Many texts present their            The material is organized in outline form. In
material in an elaborate prose format that locks           each unit, a general procedure is followed: the
the teacher into the author’s method of presenta-          material is described as clearly and concisely as
tion down to the smallest details. This allows for         possible, and skeletal examples of the procedures
very little creativity and flexibility in the class-       under consideration, in both keyboard and choral
room. It often results in the unimaginative and            voicings, are interwoven with the explanatory
educationally unproductive procedure of reading            material. The teacher and the students are con-
the text in class together with the students, under-       tinually urged to refer to Music for Analysis or
lining or outlining the text to distill its essentials,    other anthologies for musical examples that
or ignoring the text as peripheral to the course.          employ the techniques under discussion. This is
Many theory teachers who know their material               essential to the approach of this book.
well use no text at all because of these drawbacks.           The text contains several types of exercises.
   Techniques and Materials of Music is a com-             There are melodies and figured and unfigured
plete common practice theory text that also cov-           basses for harmonization. In this edition, simple
ers contemporary materials. It presents its                two- and three-note basses and simple figured
subject matter in concise outline form, enabling           basses have now been added to Units 3 through
the teacher to flesh out the course in a personal          8 in Part II. Every effort has been made to
manner. It allows for flexibility and creativity on        ensure that all exercises are as musical as pos-
the part of the teacher, which leads to more               sible and that the cumulative level of these
direct communication and interaction between               exercises reflects and is relevant to the level of
student and teacher. Students are presented with           the students’ development. Further, there are
what they need to know in an accessible format.            exercises of a more creative, compositional
   This text grew out of our classroom experi-             nature, such as completing exercises in a given
ences at the University of Houston and the institu-        texture or composing small forms, and exer-
tions with which we were previously connected.             cises dealing with instrumental textures, both
   The result of extensive classroom testing, it           keyboard and chamber combinations (intended
originated as a series of mimeographed handouts            to be performed in class by the students).
                                                                                                          ix
   An essential feature of the book is Part V, which   general use in the United States today. Where
presents summaries of several important topics.        more than one term is commonly in use, the
Most of this material is developed in a gradual        alternate term is also given. Relevance to actual
fashion throughout the text as appropriate to each     musical practice has been our primary con-
of the units. Here, however, the students can find     cern. That is why we require the use of an
in one place a summary of such topics as dou-          anthology: the student should have in hand a
bling, voice leading, chord-choice criteria, and so    maximum amount of music literature from
forth. Throughout the text, the student is directed    which to learn.
to Part V for such topics as textures, motive and         We wish to thank the following persons,
sequence, contrapuntal techniques, and analytical      whose comments helped us in planning the
procedures, to name only a few.                        Seventh Edition of Techniques and Materials of
   Part V also contains a complete and concise         Music : Matthew Hafar, Winston-Salem State
discussion of form at all levels: phrase and period,   University; Charles Leinberger, University of
small forms such as binary and ternary, contra-        Texas at El Paso; Ronald Rudkin, North
puntal forms, variations, and large forms such as      Carolina School of the Arts, Tom Tallman,
sonata-allegro and rondo. Students are referred to     College of DuPage.
the discussion of form at the appropriate point in
the presentation of the harmonic materials.                                                         T.B.
   The approach is eclectic rather than idio-                                                      M.H.
syncratic. The terminology is standard: that in                                                    R.N.
x    PREFACE
Suggestions to the Instructor
The following comments reflect the way in              well as avoid overdependence on the four-voice
which we have used this book and are intended          chorale style.
only to be general guidelines.
                                                       2. Reference materials
1. Analysis
                                                       Continual use of the reference section (Part V)
Many examples from the literature, with as broad       for summaries and detailed explanations is
a stylistic scope as possible, must be used in pre-    urged. Most of the topics covered in it are
senting the material of each unit; all examples        broadly applicable throughout the text. Of par-
must be played in class. For this reason we rec-       ticular interest are the units dealing with form
ommend the adoption of a supplementary music           (Units 13, 14, and 20)
anthology. Our Music for Analysis contains
excerpts and complete pieces from the common
                                                       3. Written work
practice period and the twentieth century and is
organized for use with this book. Several other        Statements regarding doubling and voice leading
suitable anthologies are listed in the Bibliography.   within Parts II and III apply to strict four-part
   The instructor should go beyond mere har-           writing. Obviously the musical examples will
monic analysis in discussion. Constant reference       exhibit a wider variety of procedures as a result of
should be made in analysis and in criticism of         the textures and idioms employed. There are more
student writing to such important matters as           exercises in each unit than most instructors will
motivic unity, melodic construction, counter-          find practical to use. These exercises range from
point, cadence and phrase structure, harmonic          basic part-writing work to exercises in various
rhythm, and any special features of a given work.      textures and styles. It is hoped that the instructor
For a more complete listing of elements, see the       will make use of a wide spectrum of exercises.
Checklist for Analysis, Part V, Unit 21.                  In the creative writing exercises the instruc-
   Stylistic and historical aspects of the music       tor should make use of the various instruments
are in a sense incidental in analysis, but they        and voices available in class. He or she should
may be considered to give an extra dimension to        discuss all instruments to be used and refer to
the discussion. Problems of performance as they        the information on instrument ranges found in
are clarified by analysis often interest students.     Part V, Unit 23.
   In class discussion the instructor should              All student writing in which there is any
emphasize the organic nature of music—that is,         degree of creativity should be played in class
the interactions of line, rhythm, harmony, and         and discussed. Musicality, as well as technical
so on. It may be pedagogically useful to treat all     competence, should be emphasized.
elements separately at first, but the unifying            A complete collection of supplementary exer-
aspects should be brought out as early as possi-       cises can be found in an e-Workbook at the
ble. Complete short works should be studied            premium web site for Techniques and Materials
periodically to show large-scale applications of       of Music, 7th edition. Go to www.thomsonedu
various materials and techniques.                      .com/login and use the pass code provided
   For analysis the instructor should choose           with your book to access this resource. If stu-
music that exhibits a wide variety of textures,        dents are using used copies of the book, they
instrumental idioms, and harmonic rhythms, as          can purchase access to the e-Workbook at
                                                                                                        xi
www.thomsonedu.com/music. This e-Workbook              Materials of Music. The instructor should stress
in PDF format provides more than 200 pages of          the importance of listening to both written
exercises to complement this textbook. Included        and analytical assignments before students hand
are preliminary exercises, melodies for harmo-         them in.
nization, figured and unfigured basses, and
compositional exercises that explore a wide vari-
ety of textures and styles. This comprehensive
                                                       6. Improvisation
collection of graded exercises covers the full         Three types of exercises in this book lend them-
range of tonal harmony and post-tonal tech-            selves to classroom improvisation: melodies for
niques introduced in the textbook.                     harmonization, figured-bass exercises, and
                                                       phrase-chord formats. These may be done with
4. Keyboard applications                               piano alone, piano plus instruments, or groups of
                                                       instruments without piano.
Keyboard application of all basic material in
this text is strongly recommended. Any of the
available keyboard harmony textbooks may               7. Rudiments of music
be used.
                                                       Part I is intended as a review of musical fundamen-
                                                       tals. When dealing with a class whose background
5. Sight-singing and ear training                      in rudiments is not strong the instructor may wish
                                                       to use a fundamentals text. Many of these texts now
It is assumed that sight-singing is an integral part   come with CDs containing computer exercises that
of the theory program. We suggest doing as much        allow the students to drill on their own.
part-singing as possible. Several good collections
of music for singing, such as the authors’ Music
                                                       8. Analytical symbols
for Sight-Singing, Fourth Edition (Belmont:
Schirmer/Thomson, 2005), are available.                The analytical system used throughout employs
    Both sight-singing and ear-training work           roman numerals to indicate chord function and
should be coordinated with the theory course.          quality, together with traditional figured-bass
Instructors may wish to use Music for Ear              symbols that show inversion, precise interval
Training: CD-ROM and Workbook, Second Edition          structure, and chromatic alterations. The
(Belmont: Schirmer/Thomson Learning, 2005).            instructor may of course use any modification of
This book is also coordinated with Techniques and      this system desired.
                                         3
2              Accidentals
I. An accidental is a sign at the left of a musical note that indicates a change in the note’s pitch.
A. A sharp raises the pitch of a note one half step above its natural pitch.
B. A double sharp raises the pitch of a note two half steps above its natural pitch.
C. A flat lowers the pitch of a note one half step below its natural pitch.
D. A double flat lowers the pitch of a note two half steps below its natural pitch.
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II. To restore a double sharped or a double flatted note to its original pitch, a single accidental is sufficient.
III. Accidentals are often carelessly written, even in some printed music. The following observations on the
     proper use of accidentals in tonal music should be carefully noted.
    A. Accidentals do not carry into other octaves in the same measure; one should specify the
       desired accidental.
    B. Though a bar-line technically cancels an accidental from the preceding measure, one should
       specify the desired accidental in the new measure, in parentheses.
IV. Pitches that sound the same but are spelled differently are called enharmonic.
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