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Elements of Music

ISBN: 9780130343413 | 0130343412
Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub. Date: 1/1/2003

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SummaryTable of Contents
For courses in Music Fundamentals. Immersed in musical literature, and written by a leader in the field of music theory, this text covers all of the basic topics: music notation; rhythm; scales; intervals; triads; and basic harmonic progressions. It engages students in the process of making musicemphasizing, at every stage, that music is to be heard and madenot merely seen and learned as theoretical concepts in the abstract.

Elements of Music covers the traditional fundamental topics in tonal music theory: pitch no... MORE
1. Pitch.
Staff. Keyboard. Treble Clef. Bass Clef. Great Staff. Supplementary Lesson

2. Rhythm and Meter.
Quarter-, Half-, and Whole-Notes in 4/4 Meter. Eighth-Notes and Sixteenth-Notes. Dots and Ties. Rests. Duple Meter (2/4 and 2/2). Triple Meter (3/4). Compound Meter (6/8). Syncopation. Supplementary Lesson.

3. Major and Minor Scales.
Semitones and Whole Tones. Majo... MORE

4. Intervals.
Interval Size. Seconds and Thirds. Sixths and Sevenths. Fourths and Fifths, Unisons and Octaves. Intervals in a Major Key. Intervals in a Minor Key. Supplementary Lesson.

5. Triads and Seventh Chords.
Triads. Triads in Inversion. Triads in Major Keys. Triads in Minor Keys. Seventh Chords. Supplementary Lesson.

6. Fundamentals of Harmony.
Tonic and Dominant. Expanding Tonic and Dominant. Approaching the Dominant. Phrase and Cadence. Supplementary Lesson.

Anthology.
Over the Rainbow, Harold Arlen. Two Fugues from the Well-Tempered Clavier, Volume 1, Johann Sebastian Bach. Two Chorales from the St. Matthew Passion, Johann Sebastian Bach. Two Preludes from Opus 28, Frederic Chopin. It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing), Duke Ellington. St. Louis Blues. W.C. Handy. String Quartet, Op. 76, No. 3, Third Movement (minuet), Franz Joseph Haydn. The Entertainer, Scott Joplin. Song, Josephine Lang. Trio for Piano, Violin, and Cello, Op. 11, Second Movement, Fanny Mendelssohn. Piano Sonata in A-Major, K. 331, First Movement, Theme, and Variations 1, 3, and 6, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. “Dove sono” from The Marriage of Figaro, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. La Cumparsita, Matos Rodriguez. Two Songs, Franz Schubert. Song, Robert Schumann.

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