The Practice of Popular Music

Auralia^® & Musition^® are excited to be partnering with Trevor de Clercq PhD (Author, Middle Tennessee State University) to curate worksheets to support Trevor's new undergraduate music theory textbook­ The Practice of Popular Music (Routledge).

These worksheets will assist students with both non-notation and notation-based backgrounds to expand their theoretical knowledge and aural awareness, and support their performance, songwriting, composition and music production goals.

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Key Features

The Practice of Popular Music is a music theory and musicianship textbook devoted to explaining the organization of contemporary popular music styles such as pop, rock, R&B, rap, and country. Rooted in recent research showing that the structure of popular music differs from classical music in important ways, this textbook offers an approach to teaching music theory that is fully oriented around popular and commercial genres.

Beginning with fundamentals and requiring no previous training in music theory or notation, this book eventually guides the reader through a range of advanced topics, including chromatic mixture, secondary chord function, complex time signatures, and phrase organization.