• The diverse body of pieces included allows students to analyze a wide variety of genres, styles, textures, and composers that illustrate the standard usage and idiomatic procedures of historical periods from the 17th century into the 21st century
• The organization of the text by chord type or harmony and the subdivision of the examples into smaller structural units, which parallels the ordering of topics in a music theory text, ireinforces concepts new to students and allows greater flexibility for instructors, unlike the chronological organization of competing texts
• The inclusion of several new pieces in the Sixth Edition (including "Gavea" by Darius Milhaud and an entire Mozart sonata) broaden the prospective uses for this anthology from introductory theory to form and analysis courses and graduate review courses
• The Sixth Edition now includes contrapuntal examples from composers other than Bach
• "Questions for analysis" in each unit guide study and discussion for the student
• A detailed checklist and model analysis in Appendix A provides a useful summary for students who are learning to analyze music, and several new model analyses have been included in the body of the text to reinforce the desired goal of a comprehensive analysis of the music, not just a simple harmonic analysis or parsing of phrases
• Movement and measure numbers have been provided for excerpts that don't begin a work, and longer works and complete pieces now have measure numbers for ease of reference in discussing the music
• The inclusion of an index of all complete pieces as well as an index of composers, facilitates the study of a particular composer or style and makes selections easier to find

   
Music for Analysis is a varied collection of more than 400 pieces of music from the Baroque period to the present. This anthology provides both excerpts and complete pieces for analysis of style, musical idiom, small forms, tonal harmony, and contemporary techniques. Covering a full range of genres, styles, media, and composers, the musical pieces illustrate standard usage and idiomatic procedures and can be used with any music theory text. Organized logically by harmonic content, Music for Analysis moves progressively and systematically through the techniques and musical scores of the common practice period and 20th century. 
 
In the Sixth Edition, the authors have placed more emphasis on the complete pieces for analysis already included and added several more (including "Gavea" by Darius Milhaud, which contains a wide variety of contemporary techniques, and a complete Mozart sonata). The revision also includes precise measure numbers for all excerpts from larger pieces. In this new edition, an audio CD containing recorded music from the text will be packaged with each book.