Hearing Form: Musical Analysis With and Without the Score, Third Edition is a complete course package for undergraduate courses on musical forms, with comprehensive coverage from the Baroque to the Romantic. Placing emphasis on listening, it teaches students to analyze music both with and without the use of a score.
- Emphasis on hearing musical forms is pedagogically effective and unique among form textbooks
- Offers a complete course package, with workbook pages included in the Textbook, while the accompanying Anthology makes full scores of pieces covered in the book easily available
- Offers clear and accessible explanations that are up to date with current scholarship
Matthew Santa is Professor and Chair of Music Theory at the Texas Tech University School of Music.
Chapter 1: Phrases and Cadences / Chapter 2: Phrase Organization / Chapter 3: One-Part, Binary, and Ternary Forms / Chapter 4: Sonata Forms / Chapter 5: Variation Forms / Chapter 6: Imitative Forms / Chapter 7: Concerto Forms / Chapter 8: Rondo Forms / Appendix I: Formal Models / Appendix II: Making a Phrase Diagram / Appendix III: Reading a Transposing Score / Appendix IV: Answers to Self-Tests / Bibliography / Index / Workbook for Hearing Form