MENC: The National Association for Music Education

Review
Reviewed Work(s): A Guide to Musical Analysis by Nicholas Cook
Review by: Thomas Janson
Source: Music Educators Journal, Vol. 74, No. 1 (Sep., 1987), pp. 13-14
Published by: Sage Publications, Inc. on behalf of MENC: The National Association for
Music Education
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Band Technique will assist in deve-
loping all aspects of musicianship.

Each of the 167 exercises was writ-

ten to achieve a specific musical
goal. Exercises include warm-up
chords, chorales, ear-training, flexi-
bility, slurring, major and minor
scales, scale studies, chromatic
scales, tonguing, rhythmic and
Aten extended examples are listed as G
reading etudes, articulation, synco-
Nich
necessary references. I did not find pation, triplets, odd meters, dotted
Braz
this to be absolutely mandatory, as note studies, and unique exercises
ples.
Cook's shorter examples and my called "Balance Builders".
knowledge of the standard scores
This new text from Great Britain to which he refers were sufficient Parts: $3.95
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gives exposure
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methods used today in the best proach more concisely in its fourth
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Cook presents a current compen- approaches (Schenkerian, psycho-
dium of musical/analytical teaching logical, and formalistic) may prove REMOVES VOCALS FROM RECORDS!
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this one covers the major works of
dAd"4 & ;2 99&4 d Ad494 220 composers from the Middle
Ages to the present, listing each
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me further
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