Reference Books.
Music-theory texts, ear-training method, harmony and counterpoint, music history, instrument-specific reference, biography, and the scholarly literature of the working musician.
Theory.
History. Method.
Hal Leonard distributes the reference literature that working musicians, students and teachers actually keep on the shelf. Music theory texts at every level. Ear training method books and workbooks. Counterpoint, harmony, form-analysis, orchestration. Music history surveys, period studies, composer biographies, instrument-specific reference.
The catalogue carries Berklee Press (jazz, contemporary, music industry), Backbeat Books (rock and pop journalism, biography, instrument reference), Hal Leonard's own theory and history line, and a deep set of Hal Leonard licensed reference imports.
Theory. History. Method. The working bookshelf.The Reference Catalogue
What you reach
for at 3am.
Performers reach for the Pocket Music Theory or the Berklee jazz harmony texts. Composers and arrangers go to the orchestration manuals, the instrument-specific ranges and notation references. Students work through the workbook chapters at the school year's pace.
Music journalists, fans and historians keep the Backbeat Books biography line on the shelf — Hendrix, Beatles, Stones, Floyd, Zeppelin, the Beach Boys — written by the journalists and biographers who knew the artists themselves. Instrument-specific reference: guitar, bass, keyboard, drum kit, every instrument worth a working text.
