Analyses of Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Music, 1940-2000 by The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory by A Player's Guide to Chords and Harmony by Reading Renaissance Music Theory by Style and Music by Understanding Basic Music Theory by Understanding Music Theory by If you are looking for books on Music Theory at any of our Marshall Libraries, here is a brief overview of the call number sections that may be helpful in your search. The Drinko, Morrow, and Charleston Library Stacks are organized through the Library of Congress cataloguing system which assigns Music subject books under the designation "M." For Music Theory a good place to start is under the "MT" designation.
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Theoretical Analysis:
Books about the history of music theory and theoreticians:
Subject Headings are great ways to search for a particular type of topic that you are looking for in your research. Subject Headings are standardized under the Library of Congress classification, so locating a particular subject heading can be searched in not only our Marshall Libraries but in libraries across the U.S. Use one of the following Subject Headings to help you narrow down your search.
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