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I've wanted to brush up on music theory for a while. In college 35 years ago, my freshman theory book was Walter Piston's "Harmony", which was not very clear or well-organized. The teachers more worked around it than worked with it. It was during the era that the "Switched-on Bach" album appeared, and we called it "Pi$$ed-on Harmony."

Does anyone have recommendations for a well organized, clearly written theory book that covers from common practice through modern theory, with maybe some baroque and renaissance thrown in?

Bruce Benward's book is pretty good. "Music in Theory & Practice" It is used by a lot of Universities.



And I think he has a website that is going to be up soon...

brucebenwardstolemyfrenchfries.com

if you just want some basic eartraining and interval ID work check this out It's not totally functional (I wish he'd get other clefs working, f'rinstance) but the site has a lot going for it.

Here's a website that I refer to a lot:

http://www.dolmetsch.com/theoryintro.htm