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Book Synopsis

Music Fundamentals: A Balanced Approach, Third Edition combines a textbook and integrated workbook with an interactive website for those who want to learn the basics of reading music. Intended for students with little or no prior knowledge of music theory, it offers a patient approach to understanding and mastering the building blocks of musical practice and structure. Musical examples range from Elvis Presley songs to Filipino ballads to Beethoven symphonies, offering a balanced mixture of global, classical, and popular music.

The new edition includes:

  • Additional vocabulary features and review exercises
  • Additional musical selections and 1-, 2-, or 3-hand rhythmic exercises

  • The addition of guitar tablature

  • A revised text design that more clearly designates the different types of exercises and makes the Workbook pages easier to write on

  • An improved companion website with added mobile functiona

    Table of Contents

    Module 1 - Basics of Pitch

    Module 2 - Basics of Rhythm

    Module 3 - Basics of Rhythm: Extending Duration, Anacrusis, Rests

    Module 4 - Accidentals

    Module 5 - Rhythm: Simple Meter Expanded

    Module 6 - Major Scale

    Module 7 - Major Scale Key Signatures

    Module 8 - Rhythm: Compound Meter

    Module 9 - Minor Scale

    Module 10 - Intervals

    Module 11 - Traids

    Module 12 - Rhythm: Compound Meter Expanded

    Module 13 - Triads: Roman Numerals

    Module 14 - Inversions of Triads

    Module 15 - Seventh Chords

    Module 16 - Form in Music

    Appendix 1 - Musical Terms

    Appendix 2 - Acoustics

    Appendix 3 - C Clefs (Alto and Tenor)

    Appendix 4 - Modes

    Appendix 5 - Other Seventh Chords (Major, Minor, Half Diminished, Diminished)

    Appendix 6 - Basic Guitar Chords

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      Publisher: Taylor & Francis
      Publication Date: 10/13/2017 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9781138654419, 978-1138654419
      ISBN10: 1138654418
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      The arts: general topics Theory of music and musicology

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Music Fundamentals: A Balanced Approach, Third Edition combines a textbook and integrated workbook with an interactive website for those who want to learn the basics of reading music. Intended for students with little or no prior knowledge of music theory, it offers a patient approach to understanding and mastering the building blocks of musical practice and structure. Musical examples range from Elvis Presley songs to Filipino ballads to Beethoven symphonies, offering a balanced mixture of global, classical, and popular music.

      The new edition includes:

      • Additional vocabulary features and review exercises
      • Additional musical selections and 1-, 2-, or 3-hand rhythmic exercises

      • The addition of guitar tablature

      • A revised text design that more clearly designates the different types of exercises and makes the Workbook pages easier to write on

      • An improved companion website with added mobile functiona

        Table of Contents

        Module 1 - Basics of Pitch

        Module 2 - Basics of Rhythm

        Module 3 - Basics of Rhythm: Extending Duration, Anacrusis, Rests

        Module 4 - Accidentals

        Module 5 - Rhythm: Simple Meter Expanded

        Module 6 - Major Scale

        Module 7 - Major Scale Key Signatures

        Module 8 - Rhythm: Compound Meter

        Module 9 - Minor Scale

        Module 10 - Intervals

        Module 11 - Traids

        Module 12 - Rhythm: Compound Meter Expanded

        Module 13 - Triads: Roman Numerals

        Module 14 - Inversions of Triads

        Module 15 - Seventh Chords

        Module 16 - Form in Music

        Appendix 1 - Musical Terms

        Appendix 2 - Acoustics

        Appendix 3 - C Clefs (Alto and Tenor)

        Appendix 4 - Modes

        Appendix 5 - Other Seventh Chords (Major, Minor, Half Diminished, Diminished)

        Appendix 6 - Basic Guitar Chords

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