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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.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library MT6 .C5677 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Clendinning, Jane Piper, author.
- Marvin, Elizabeth West, 1955- author.
- Phillips, Joel, 1958- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Music theory.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 398, 61 pages : illustrations, music ; 28 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 2014.
- 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."
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9780393923889
- 0393923886
- OCLC:
- 864418240
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