Basic Training in Music Skills Analysis Workbook

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.