Christine Riley

Music Fundamentals for Musical Theatre (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Musical theatre students and performers are frequently asked to learn musical material in a short space of time; sight-read pieces in auditions; collaborate with accompanists; and communicate musically with peers, directors, music directors and choreographers. Many of these students and performers will have had no formal musical training.

This book offers a series of lessons in music fundamentals, including theory, sight-singing and aural tests, giving readers the necessary skills to navigate music and all that is demanded of them, without having had a formal music training. It focuses on the skills required of the musical theatre performer and draws on musical theatre repertoire in order to connect theory with practice.

Throughout the book, each musical concept is laid out clearly and simply with helpful hints and reminders. The author takes the reader back to basics to ensure full understanding of each area. As the concepts begin to build on one another, the format and process is kept the same so that readers can see how different aspects interrelate.

Through introducing theoretical ideas and putting each systematically into practice with sight-singing and ear-training, the students gain a much deeper and more integrated understanding of the material, and are able to retain it, using it in voice lessons, performance classes and their professional lives.

The book is published alongside a companion website, which offers supporting material for the aural skills component and gives readers the opportunity to drill listening exercises individually and at their own pace.

Music Fundamentals for Musical Theatre allows aspirational performers - and even those who aren't enrolled on a course - to access the key components of music training that will be essential to their careers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350001763
• Artikelnr.: 58391040

Autorenporträt

Christine Riley is a Music Director, Vocal Coach and Arranger currently residing in NYC. As a music director she has workedOff-Broadway, on national tours and regionally in the US. She is currentlymember of the full time faculty at Marymount Manhattan College where she servesas the instructor for Fundamentals of Musical Theatre as well the musicdirector for many productions and the program director for the Pre-Collegeprogram. In addition she is a music director for Camp Broadway and maintains aprivate vocal coaching studio.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1
The staff, treble clef, pitches on the staff, solfege and sight
singing Chapter 2
Rhythm
whole notes, half notes, quarter notes and eighth notes Chapter 3
The piano keyboard, accidentals, whole and half steps, major scales Chapter 4
The Circle of 5ths and major key signatures Review of chapters 1
4 and Performance Tips (Tempo) Chapter 5
Intervals
seconds and thirds and phrase shapes Chapter 6
Intervals
fourths, fifths, and octaves; Rhythm
sixteenth notes Chapter 7
Intervals
sixths and sevenths; Rhythm
rests Chapter 8
diminished and augmented intervals; Rhythm
syncopation Review of chapters 5
8 and Performance Tips (Musical Markings) Chapter 9
Rhythm
ties, dotted notes, 2/4 and 3/4 time; Song Analysis Chapter 10
Major triads; introduction to Bass Clef and the Grand Staff Chapter 11
I, IV, V progression; chord tones and non
chord tones; Song Analysis Chapter 12
Transpositions; Rhythm
triplets Review of chapters 9
12 and Performance Tips (Repeats, Endings and Codas) Chapter 13
Minor, Diminished and Augmented triads; Cut
time; chromatic solfege Chapter 14
I, vi, ii, V, I progression; harmonizing a melody Chapter 15
Inversions of triads Chapter 16
Progressions with inversions; choral analysis Review of chapters 13
16 and Performance Tips (The Music Department) Chapter 17
Dominant 7th chords; V of V chords; Suspended chords; Song Analysis Chapter 18
Minor Key signatures and natural minor scales Chapter 19
Harmonic minor scales and melodic minor scales: Song Analysis Chapter 20
Minor Chord progressions; Song Analysis Review of chapters 17
20 and Performance Tips (Song Form) Chapter 21
Major, Minor, Half
Diminished, and Diminished Seventh chords Chapter 22
Compound time Chapter 23
More compound time; Song Analysis Chapter 24
Song Analysis; Orchestration