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Foundations of Diatonic Theory: A Mathematically Based Approach to Music Fundamentals | 
 enlarge | Author: Timothy A. Johnson
Publisher: The Scarecrow Press, Inc.
Category: Book
List Price: $34.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 934395
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 194
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 8.3 x 0.8
ISBN: 0810862131
Dewey Decimal Number: 780
EAN: 9780810862135
ASIN: 0810862131
Publication Date: August 28, 2008
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Product Description
This introductory, undergraduate-level textbook provides an easy entry point into the challenging field of diatonic set theory. After introducing mathematical concepts that relate directly to music theory, the text concentrates on these mathematical relationships, and uses pedagogical exercises and instructions to establish a strong link between introductory pedagogy and recent scholarship in music theory, relating concepts in diatonic set theory directly to the study of music fundamentals.
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Diatonic set theory: a little math-lots of potential answers January 26, 2005
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Part of the Mathematics Across the Curriculum series, Foundations of Diatonic Theory IS mathematically based, but only requires basic math skills. While it claims to serve as a intro or basic music theory text, the first few chapters do not introduce interval names and thus require prior knowledge. On the other hand, it introduces relatively little mathematical skills such as greatest common divisor and coprime, avoiding modulo 12.
This instructional text is based on the latest papers in diatonic set theory. For people who took a music theory intro class and left with more questions than they began, this book is likely what they want. Why major and minor? Why the modes? Why the diatonic scale? Why the diatonic triads and seventh chords? The book leads readers through the discovery of properties of these collections which help explain their general, and some specific, uses and qualities.
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