1. "Basics of Music Theory" by Li Chongguang

Domestic music theory basically starts with this book. The main content of this book is actually to read the staff, which is Learn the basis of all other theories.

2. "A Tutorial on Harmony" by Sposobin

Based on our thirty years of teaching experience, we feel that this book has the following advantages: Academically speaking, this book The summary of traditional harmony is scientific, meticulous and orderly; the explanation is reasonable, thorough and meticulous, establishing a complete logical system for this music science.

In terms of teaching, this book is step-by-step, with reasonable chapters, strict rules and easy to master, clear requirements and easy to remember. It is easily accepted by beginners and is an excellent guide for beginners in harmony. This is the reason why the supply of first and second editions of this book exceeds demand in our country.

3. "Bayer Piano Basic Tutorial"

"Bayer Piano Basic Tutorial" mainly includes: introductory music knowledge; one-hand and two-hand key touch exercises; from whole notes to Four-handed playing of eighth notes; identifying notes in the bass clef, etc.

"Bayer's Basic Piano Tutorial" has 109 exercises and 34 appendix exercises, interspersed with "Cuckoo", "Ah!" "Su Shanshan" and other 22 short pieces of music enable piano learners to appreciate the joy of playing music at the beginning of this piano.

While focusing on fun, pay attention to the connection between knowledge and exercises, synchronize with the times, and strive to achieve rigorous content. In order to conform to the reading habits of Chinese readers, this edition has rewritten the explanatory text.

4. "Monophonic Sight-Singing Tutorial" by Shangyin Publishing House

Singing ear training is not only about singing music and listening to music, but also a comprehensive improvement of your musical sense. , including your performance needs to use sight-reading, good sense of rhythm, sensitivity to intervals, sense of rhythm, music memory, etc. Basically, you need to rely on sight-singing and ear training. Of course, there are also instruments that can be used to replace the voice. However, good listening skills and rhythmic music memory are both important to your overall musical skills.

"Monophonic Sight-Singing Tutorial" (Part 1) (Revised Edition) is organized according to the two principles of step-by-step progression of tonality and rhythm and highlighting key points at a certain stage and concentrating on solving a certain problem. of. For example, the first chapter of the tutorial mainly solves the problem of basic rhythm and rhythm, and the tonality only has no rise and fall. The second chapter mainly solves the tonality problem. The rhythm and rhythm are just a review of what was learned in the first chapter, and there are no new topics.

The third chapter is to further strengthen the issue of rhythm and rhythm, while the tonality is still to review the three rising and three falling tones. This arrangement not only highlights the key points of new topics in each chapter, but also reviews and consolidates old topics, which has better results in teaching practice.

5. "History of Western Music"

The purpose of revising a general history of music that is very popular among readers is not to overturn and rewrite it, but to improve its contemporary relevance. Readers who are accustomed to the previous editions will feel that this book has undergone major changes in appearance and content, but the chapters and scope have basically remained unchanged.

The addition of the word "Western" in the title of the book shows that we realize that the music system of Western Europe and North and South America is just one of the music systems of world civilization. Another limitation of the scope of this book is that it only talks about "art music";

It must be admitted that the concept of "art music" itself is very vague. Pop music, jazz, and things like that do have quite a lot of technical prowess.

However, this book cannot be expected to treat this vast branch of Western music equally (now it has become an independent research topic), and conventional music history tutorials may not treat it equally. This book is just a This handbook of general music history.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - Music Theory