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The musician's guide to fundamentals / Jane Piper Clendinning, Florida State University College of Music, Elizabeth West Marvin, Eastman School of Music, Joel Phillips, Westminster Choir College of Rider University.

By: Contributor(s): Publisher: New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 2014Edition: Second editionDescription: pages cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780393923889 (pbk.)
Subject(s):
Contents:
Pitch notation and the grand staff -- Accidentals and half and whole steps -- Simple meters -- Beat subdivisions and syncopation -- Compound and other meters -- Major scales and keys -- Minor scales and keys -- Intervals -- Triads and the dominant seventh chord -- Melody harmonization and cadences -- Form in folk and popular songs -- Blues and other popular styles -- Anthology.
Summary: "A hands-on approach to mastering the basics in class and online. The Musician's Guide to Fundamentals teaches the basics of music--listening, writing, and performing--using real music, from Bach to the Beatles, Broadway to the Black-Eyed Peas. A unique hands-on approach invites students to listen to music from day one as they learn to interpret musical notation and, eventually, to use it to compose songs of their own."
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Intro to Music Theory I

Includes indexes.

Pitch notation and the grand staff -- Accidentals and half and whole steps -- Simple meters -- Beat subdivisions and syncopation -- Compound and other meters -- Major scales and keys -- Minor scales and keys -- Intervals -- Triads and the dominant seventh chord -- Melody harmonization and cadences -- Form in folk and popular songs -- Blues and other popular styles -- Anthology.