Edward Aldwell received his bachelor's and master's degrees from The Juilliard School where he studied piano with Adele Marcus. He studied theory and analysis privately with Carl Schachter and later with Ernst Oster. He has been a member of the Techniques of Music department at Mannes since 1969 and a member of the piano department since 1973. He has taught theory at The Curtis Institute of Music since 1971 and is currently Chairperson of the theory department. He has given recitals and master classes throughout the United States as well as in Israel, England and Germany, many of them devoted to the works of Bach. Recordings include both books of THE WELL-TEMPERED CLAVIER, GOLDBERG VARIATIONS and FRENCH SUITES OF BACH, as well as works of Hindemith and Fauré.
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| The Primary Materials and Procedures | |
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| Key, Scales, and Modes | |
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| Intervals | |
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| Rhythm and Meter | |
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| Triads and Seventh Chords | |
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| Introduction to Counterpoint | |
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| Procedures of Four-Part Writing | |
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| I-V-I and Its Elaborations | |
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| I, V, and V7 | |
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| I6, V6, VII6 | |
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| Inversions of V7 | |
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| Leading to V: IV, II, and II6 | |
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| The Cadential 6/4 | |
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| VI and IV6 | |
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| Supertonic and Subdominant Seventh Chords | |
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| Other Uses of IV, IV6, and VI | |
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| V as a Key Area | |
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| III and VII | |
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| 5/3, 6/3, and 6/4 Techniques | |
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| 5/3-Chord Techniques | |
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| Diatonic Sequences | |
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| 6/3-Chord Techniques | |
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| 6/4-Chord Techniques | |
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| Elements of Figuration | |
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| Melodic Figuration | |
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| Rhythmic Figuration | |
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| Dissonance and Chromaticism I | |
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| Leading-Tone Seventh Chords | |
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| Mixture | |
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| Remaining Uses of Seventh Chords | |
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| Applied V and VII | |
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| Diatonic Modulation | |
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| Dissonance and Chromaticism II | |
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| Seventh Chords with Added Dissonance | |
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| The Phrygian II (Neapolitan) | |
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| Augmented Sixth Chords | |
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| Other Chromatic Chords | |
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| Chromatic Voice-Leading Techniques | |
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| Chromaticism in Larger Contexts | |
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| Keyboard Progressions | |
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| Score Reduction | |
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| Explanatory Tables and Charts | |
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| Index of Musical Examples | |
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| Subject Index | |
The late Felix Salzer was a Professor at Queens College, City University of New York, and the author of Structural Hearing. Carl Schachter is a Professor at Queens College and at the Mannes School of Music and is the author of many essays on music theory.
