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1 online resource. |
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Music secrets for the starting musician
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Music secrets for the starting musician.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Summary |
Rhythms, melodies, and harmonies are the building blocks of music. In <span style=""font-style:italic;"">Music Theory Secrets: 94 Strategies for the Starting Musician, Brent Coppenbarger offers a full range of methods to help musicians, not only grasp, but remember those key elements upon which the music they play is built: pitch, rhythm, scales, key signatures, and harmony. |
Contents |
1. Pitch and Rhythm Basics -- Secret 1 Pitch Basics -- Secret 2 The Treble Clef or G Clef -- Secret 3 The Bass Clef or F Clef -- Secret 4 The Alto Clef and Tenor Clef -- Secret 5 The Grand Staff -- Secret 6 Rhythm -- Secret 7 Time Signature -- Secret 8 Meter -- Secret 9 Simple Meter -- Secret 10 Compound Meter -- Secret 11 Asymmetrical Meter -- Secret 12 Counting in Simple Meter -- Secret 13 Counting in Compound Meter -- Secret 14 Practice Makes Perfect -- 2. Major Scales and Major Key Signatures -- Secret 15 The Scale -- Secret 16 The Major Scale -- Secret 17 The Major Tetrachord -- Secret 18 Key Signatures -- Secret 19 The Order of Flats -- Secret 20 The Order of Sharps -- Secret 21 The Sharp Key Signatures in Major -- Secret 22 The Flat Key Signatures in Major -- 3. Minor Scales and Minor Key Signatures -- Secret 23 Minor Scales -- Secret 24 Parallel Minor -- Secret 25 Relative Minor -- Secret 26 Natural Minor Form. |
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Secret 27 Harmonic Minor Form -- Secret 28 Melodic Minor Form -- 4. Other Scales -- Secret 29 The Chromatic Scale -- Secret 30 The Whole-Tone Scale -- Secret 31 The Pentatonic Scale -- Secret 32 Dorian Mode -- Secret 33 Phrygian Mode -- Secret 34 Lydian Mode -- Secret 35 Mixolydian Mode -- Secret 36 The Seven-Note Blues Scale -- Secret 37 The Bebop Scale -- Secret 38 Less Common Scales -- 5. Scale Degree Names and Intervals -- Secret 39 Scale Degree Names -- Secret 40 The Interval -- Secret 41 Major Intervals -- Secret 42 Perfect Intervals -- Secret 43 Minor Intervals -- Secret 44 Augmented Intervals -- Secret 45 Diminished Intervals -- Secret 46 The Tritone -- 6. Triads -- Secret 47 Major Triads -- Secret 48 Minor Triads -- Secret 49 Augmented Triads -- Secret 50 Diminished Triads -- 7. Chords -- Secret 51 The Major Seventh Chord -- Secret 52 The Major-Minor Seventh Chord -- Secret 53 The Minor Seventh Chord -- Secret 54 The Diminished Seventh Chord. |
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Secret 55 The Half-Diminished and Fully Diminished Seventh Chord -- Secret 56 Other Chords -- 8. Roman Numeral Analysis -- Secret 57 Roman Numeral Quality -- Secret 58 Roman Numerals in Major Keys -- Secret 59 Roman Numerals in Minor Keys -- Secret 60 Four-Part Roman Numeral Analysis -- 9. Inversions of the Chord and Figured Bass -- Secret 61 The Root-Position Triad -- Secret 62 The First-Inversion Triad -- Secret 63 The Second-Inversion Triad -- Secret 64 Figured Bass -- Secret 65 Root-Position Figured Bass -- Secret 66 First-Inversion Figured Bass -- Secret 67 Second-Inversion Figured Bass -- Secret 68 Seventh-Chord Figured Bass -- Secret 69 Lead-Sheet Inversions -- 10. Nonchord Tones -- Secret 70 Nonchord Tones Defined -- Secret 71 The Passing Tone -- Secret 72 The Neighbor Tone -- Secret 73 The Escape Tone -- Secret 74 The Appoggiatura -- Secret 75 The Anticipation -- Secret 76 The Suspension -- Secret 77 The Pedal Tone. |
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Secret 78 Using Nonchord Tones to Improvise -- 11. Singing with Solfege Syllables -- Secret 79 Sight-Singing -- Secret 80 Solfege Syllables in Major -- Secret 81 Solfege Syllables in Natural Minor -- Secret 82 Solfege Syllables in Harmonic Minor -- Secret 83 Solfege Syllables in Melodic Minor -- Secret 84 Other Methods of Sight-Singing -- 12. Transposition -- Secret 85 Concert Pitch Instruments -- Secret 86 Transposing Instruments -- Secret 87 Transposing Parts -- Secret 88 Transposing Using Solfege Syllables -- Secret 89 Transposing Keys -- Secret 90 The Transposition Table -- 13. Advanced Concepts -- Secret 91 Four-Part Analysis -- Secret 92 Part-Writing Rules -- Secret 93 The Sequence -- Secret 94 Form. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Music theory.
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Music theory. |
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Electronic books.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Coppenbarger, Brent. Music theory secrets 9781442233249 (DLC) 2014013724 (OCoLC)877365433 |
ISBN |
9781442233249 (electronic book) |
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1442233249 (electronic book) |
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9781442233232 |
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1442233230 |
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