Stand Alone Scores / Text
Overview of Selected Scans
This section contains books that are more focused on the learning of music in two ways. One of the book discusses music as a whole, covering historical techniques used in music. While the other books strive to teach people how to be more proficient in playing an instrument or singing with a number of techniques and exercises they can use as well as etudes and songs to practice and improve with.
Heinrich Panofka's "24 Vocalises Progressives" is a collection of voice etudes for all voices except bass. Heinrich Panofka was a German violinist, voice teacher, and composer during the Romantic era.
The Contrapuntal Harmonic Technique of the 18th Century is a book by Allen Irvine McHose. It contains three parts that are broken down in to forty-one chapters that discuss triads, non-harmonic tones, seventh chords, altered chords, and modulation. McHose puts a lot of emphasis on the works of Bach, who was a very influential composer during the 18th century.
Figured Harmony at the Keyboard is an aural skills book that goes over chords, inversions, suspensions, and diminished chords. It has figures that help readers grasp the concepts visually as well as cadences, sequences, and exercises practice with.
The Hanon Studies is a method book for piano. It is a good beginner book for learning and sharpening techniques on the piano, but it is not a book for beginners. This book is for someone who already has some knowledge of music and a good foundation on the piano.
The Clippinger Class-Methods of Voice Culture is a method book for voice. It covers music concepts, voice culture, and voice techniques. The lessons it goes through are stage-presence, breath-control, freedom from tension, vowels, tone quality, resonance, consonants, even scale, flexibility, mood, phrasing, contrast, dictation, proportion, and unity.
Bernard Wagness Piano Course Book Two is similar to The Hanon Studies in that it is a method book for someone who has an understanding of music and the piano already. This book introduces new topics like five C positions, tetrachord, intervals, rhythm, scales, key signature, chords, and technics.