Sumy Takesue

Music Fundamentals (eBook, PDF)

A Balanced Approach

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Music Fundamentals: A Balanced Approach, Third Edition combines a textbook and 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 in most modules
• 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 functionality


The author's balanced approach to beginning music theory engages student interest while demonstrating how music theory concepts apply not only to the Western classical canon but to popular and world music as well. With the beginner student in mind, Music Fundamentals: A Balanced Approach, Third Edition is a comprehensive text for understanding the foundations of music theory.



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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 530
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317225492
• Artikelnr.: 49273358

Autorenporträt

Sumy Takesue is an Instructor at Santa Monica College, teaching theory and class piano. She has taught at the University of Hawai'i (Hilo) and the University of Southern California.

Inhaltsangabe

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