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Basic Training in Music Skills Analysis Workbook

Basic Training in Music Skills Analysis Workbook

Author(s): Lance Hulme

Edition: 1

Copyright: 2021

Pages: 150

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Copyright: 2021

Pages: 150

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The Basic Training in Music Skills Analysis Workbook is a comprehensive anthology for learning formal analysis techniques through student projects. The workbook has multiple examples of similar analysis material which can be assigned to individual students or a student group. For every analysis subject, the workbook contains four separate musical examples of equal difficulty drawn from the common practice period of western European concert music. These examples can be assigned to students as individual or group analysis projects for in-class presentation. In this way, students are exposed to multiple examples of each development in music, acquire familiarity with the topic or technique and gain wider exposure to the repertoire.

The purpose of this workbook is to teach the skill of music analysis. It is not intended as a comprehensive overview of formal schemes found in western European concert music. Rather it uses that repertoire as a teaching tool to help students gain the ability to apply critical analysis to any music they may encounter.

The workbook begins with a comprehensive review of musical structures, concepts and strategies. It continues with a basic outline of how formal analysis of music is performed and presented. Continuing topics take students through the majority of developments in western European concert music from ca. 1750 to ca. 1900 in a roughly historical order. The final analysis project introduces the new ideas which presaged the 20th century.

Completed analyses for all workbook excerpts are available at www.lancehulme.com.

Lance Hulme

Author Lance Hulme has worked as performer, composer, arranger and educator in practically every genre of music.  Trained as a classical musician at some of the most prestigious institutions in the U.S. and Europe, he has never forgotten his roots in pop, jazz and music theater.   Dr. Hulme teaches at North Carolina Central University, an historical Black university, and is co-director of the cross-genre À la carte concert series.

Lance Hulme's Basic Training in Music Skills Manual for Music Theory is a one-volume textbook and workbook providing a rigorous and comprehensive pedagogical textbook in music theory. Hulme's Preface eloquently describes the very practical philosophy of his text:

"[The] method breaks down music fundamentals and theoretical concepts into individual units, each focused on one new topic. Each topic is treated as a skill to be acquired through practice with practical examples. Each new skill adds to the student's existing knowledge base, thus creating a solid and thorough music theory skill set to use in daily music making."

Professor Hulme's textbook covers all levels of music theory, from absolute fundamentals (Unit 1, pitch notated in treble and bass clefs) through "advanced"-semester analysis of extended dominant (V)-function harmonies in the 19th-century Romantic idioms. Appendices usefully address topics like modes and orchestral scoring. Integral to this text are the 78 separate Self-Study Worksheets that accompany all chapters in each unit. Students can test themselves at every level. The design of the Worksheets is uncluttered, lucid, and inviting. 

A distinctive advantage of this author's approach is the economy of the verbal explanations. Where most textbooks have pages of prose, Hulme condenses each topic to single-page listings ("What you need to know"). His textbook is designed to quickly welcome students with many different musical backgrounds. The decision to present concepts in a summary will be valuable to instructors, too, since the listings might function as lessons plans. 

Hulme has also written an elegant accompanying Analysis Workbook (131 pages) teaching students to analyze musical form in a range of art-music styles from Back through Debussy. All scores are included in newly-engraved music exceprts, so students need not purchase special materials. 

Professor Hulme's two full-length textbooks continue in the very best traditions of modern Anglophone music theory pedagogy. To write and publish them is the work of an extraordinarily dedicated teacher. The task is also testimony to the intelligence of a superb musician with a love of communicating his art to others.

Philip Rupprecht, Ph.D.
Professor of Music
Duke University

The Basic Training in Music Skills Analysis Workbook is a comprehensive anthology for learning formal analysis techniques through student projects. The workbook has multiple examples of similar analysis material which can be assigned to individual students or a student group. For every analysis subject, the workbook contains four separate musical examples of equal difficulty drawn from the common practice period of western European concert music. These examples can be assigned to students as individual or group analysis projects for in-class presentation. In this way, students are exposed to multiple examples of each development in music, acquire familiarity with the topic or technique and gain wider exposure to the repertoire.

The purpose of this workbook is to teach the skill of music analysis. It is not intended as a comprehensive overview of formal schemes found in western European concert music. Rather it uses that repertoire as a teaching tool to help students gain the ability to apply critical analysis to any music they may encounter.

The workbook begins with a comprehensive review of musical structures, concepts and strategies. It continues with a basic outline of how formal analysis of music is performed and presented. Continuing topics take students through the majority of developments in western European concert music from ca. 1750 to ca. 1900 in a roughly historical order. The final analysis project introduces the new ideas which presaged the 20th century.

Completed analyses for all workbook excerpts are available at www.lancehulme.com.

Lance Hulme
Lance Hulme

Author Lance Hulme has worked as performer, composer, arranger and educator in practically every genre of music.  Trained as a classical musician at some of the most prestigious institutions in the U.S. and Europe, he has never forgotten his roots in pop, jazz and music theater.   Dr. Hulme teaches at North Carolina Central University, an historical Black university, and is co-director of the cross-genre À la carte concert series.

Lance Hulme's Basic Training in Music Skills Manual for Music Theory is a one-volume textbook and workbook providing a rigorous and comprehensive pedagogical textbook in music theory. Hulme's Preface eloquently describes the very practical philosophy of his text:

"[The] method breaks down music fundamentals and theoretical concepts into individual units, each focused on one new topic. Each topic is treated as a skill to be acquired through practice with practical examples. Each new skill adds to the student's existing knowledge base, thus creating a solid and thorough music theory skill set to use in daily music making."

Professor Hulme's textbook covers all levels of music theory, from absolute fundamentals (Unit 1, pitch notated in treble and bass clefs) through "advanced"-semester analysis of extended dominant (V)-function harmonies in the 19th-century Romantic idioms. Appendices usefully address topics like modes and orchestral scoring. Integral to this text are the 78 separate Self-Study Worksheets that accompany all chapters in each unit. Students can test themselves at every level. The design of the Worksheets is uncluttered, lucid, and inviting. 

A distinctive advantage of this author's approach is the economy of the verbal explanations. Where most textbooks have pages of prose, Hulme condenses each topic to single-page listings ("What you need to know"). His textbook is designed to quickly welcome students with many different musical backgrounds. The decision to present concepts in a summary will be valuable to instructors, too, since the listings might function as lessons plans. 

Hulme has also written an elegant accompanying Analysis Workbook (131 pages) teaching students to analyze musical form in a range of art-music styles from Back through Debussy. All scores are included in newly-engraved music exceprts, so students need not purchase special materials. 

Professor Hulme's two full-length textbooks continue in the very best traditions of modern Anglophone music theory pedagogy. To write and publish them is the work of an extraordinarily dedicated teacher. The task is also testimony to the intelligence of a superb musician with a love of communicating his art to others.

Philip Rupprecht, Ph.D.
Professor of Music
Duke University