Full Description
Ideal for music majors who require prerequisite study for the first semester pre-theory course, non-music majors who desire a comprehensive survey of elementary music fundamentals, and for performers who wish to complement studies in music performance with a better understanding of music elements.This comprehensive introduction features the basic aspects of music notation, the study of pitch and time, and the application of these to scales, key signatures, intervals, the keyboard, note values, meter, rhythm, and elementary harmony.
Contents
1. Pitch. 2. Pitch: The Keyboard. 3. Time. 4. Pitch (continued). 5. Pitch: Major Scales. 6. Pitch: Major Scales (continued). 7. Time (continued). 8. Time (continued). 9. Time (continued). 10. Pitch: Major Scales (continued). 11. Pitch: Major Key Signatures. 12. Time (continued). 13. Time (continued). 14. Pitch: Minor Scales. 15. Pitch: Minor Scales (continued). 16. Pitch: Minor Key Signatures. 17. Major and Minor Key Relationships. 18. Intervals: Major and Perfect. 19. Intervals (continued). 20. Harmony I: Chords, Major Triads. 21. Keyboard Harmony I. 22. Harmony II: The Minor, Diminished, and Augmented Triads. 23. Keyboard Harmony II. Appendix A. Elementary Acoustics. Appendix B. Octave Registers, SVA, The C Clef and Other Clefs, Repeat Signs. Appendix C. The Medieval Modes and Other Scale Forms. Appendix D. Keyboard Scale Fingerings. Appendix E. Foreign Words and Musical Terms. Appendix F. Answers. Index.
