Hello everyone, I apologize but I cannot find a "suitable" section to post this question... For the study of two complementary subjects such as "Harmony and counterpoint" and "Music history," what texts do you suggest reading for a better understanding of them? Considering that the first subject concerns some exams during its study, I thank in advance anyone who can suggest some good books, especially regarding this topic
The topic is very vast, which is why I think the friends of the Forum have been a bit "shy"
As far as Music History is concerned, you must know that there are more vertical texts and more horizontal texts; what do I mean? I mean that there is a part of texts that goes from the "Stone Age" to the present day in a few volumes, and then there are others that alone are not enough to delve into the Baroque.
All this to say that if the goal is an exam that covers the subject in general, it is better to use texts like Surian (4 volumes) or those from EDT (there are about ten volumes).
The subject is very vast, which is why I think the friends of the Forum have been a bit "shy"
As far as Music History is concerned, you must know that there are more vertical texts and more horizontal texts; what do I mean? I mean that there is a set of texts that goes from the "Stone Age" to the present day in a few volumes, and then there are others that alone are not enough to delve into the Baroque.
Tutto per dire che se la finalità è un esame che tratta la materia in generale, meglio usare testi tipi Surian (4 volumi) o quelli dell'EDT (sono una decina di volumi).
As far as Music History is concerned, there is no exam planned, but nonetheless the study of the subject...
Anyway, I will go to study it "on my own," that is, it is included in a pre-academic course, but I am not currently attending this course; however, I would like to try to "follow it" even if I do not appear, let's say, as a student
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There is a lot of treatise literature regarding Harmony; the fact is that not all texts are homogeneous from the point of view of interpreting practice, and in the case of stylistic reconstructions, it is important to know the "ideas" of the teacher.
However, you can obtain a solid preparation from the "classics"; are you being tutored or are you self-taught?
Dante, thank you so much for the link... I am following piano lessons, but, out of curiosity, I created the post to know the opinion of some other students or simply to receive some suggestions from other people attending the forum
For harmony, I wouldn't let my library lack texts such as Piston, Schoenberg and De La Motte; for counterpoint, Zanolini.
For music history, you have already received excellent ideas; if you are interested in a particular period, you can ask; for the '1900s' in general, a healthy reading of texts like Alex Ross, The Rest Is Noise is not bad
Since so far, regarding complementary subjects among others, I have bought many texts by Nerina Poltronieri, have you had the chance to read her "Lessons for the complementary harmony course"? If so, would you recommend them?
For music history, I used “Baroni, Fubini, Petazzi, Santi, Vinay. STORIA DELLA MUSICA edizioni Einaudi (Biblioteca studio series).” For harmony, no text because I started with the maestro and for a short period. As for Nerina Poltronieri, I remember her for spoken and sung solfeggi, but I don't know her for other editions.
Anyway, there are many texts... there was a series if I'm not mistaken (which would also work well from the perspective of dividing periods into volumes) that presented one volume for each historical period, except... I don't remember the publisher and title.
the so long that I have all 12 volumes here on the shelf along with the 4 Surian volumes plus other various volumes scattered about, Frank must have forgotten to reply haha
