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Introduced in 1976, The Music Kit was the first to offer students an integrated learning environment for the fundamentals course.

Chapter One

3

(6)

Rhythm, Beat, and Tempo

3

(1)

Quarter Note and Eighth Note

3

(1)

Beaming Eighth Notes

3

(1)

Speaking Rhythms

4

(1)

Double Bar

5

(1)

Repeat Signs

5

(2)

Fermata Sign

7

(1)

Notes Control Space

7

(1)

Terms, Symbols, and Concepts

8

(1)

Chapter Two

9

(2)

Rests

9

(1)

Rests Control Space

10

(1)

Meter and Bar Lines

11

(1)

Strong and Weak Beats

11

(1)

Time Signatures

12

(1)

Counting Beats

13

(1)

Metronome and Tempo

13

(1)

Division of the Basic Pulse

13

(2)

Playing end Singing

15

(1)

Terms, Symbols, and Concepts

16

Chapter Three

11

(13)

Eighth Rest

17

(1)

Note Values

17

(1)

Speaking the Eighth Rest

18

(3)

1st and 2nd Endings

21

(1)

Other Types of Repeats

22

(1)

Terms, Symbols, and Concepts

23

(1)

Chapter Four

24

(9)

Notes Longer Than the Quarter Note

24

(1)

Notes Longer Than the Quarter Rest

24

(1)

Anacrusis

25

(1)

Counting the Anacrusis

26

(4)

Creating a Drum Pattern

30

(1)

Conducting

30

(2)

Terms, Symbols, and Concepts

32

(1)

Chapter Five

33

(9)

Note System

33

(1)

Dividing the Whole Note

33

(1)

Beams

34

(1)

Combinations of Notes with Beams

34

(1)

Relationship of Note Values

35

(1)

The Tie

36

(1)

Ties and Slurs

36

(1)

The Dotted Note

37

(2)

Writing Rests

39

(2)

Terms, Symbols, and Concepts

41

(1)

Chapter Six

42

(10)

Working with Ties and Dotted Notes

42

(2)

Division of the Basic Pulse

44

(1)

Coordinating Both Hands

45

(3)

Marking the Beat

48

(3)

Terms, Symbols, and Concepts

51

(1)

Chapter Seven

52

(10)

Subdivision of the Quarter Note into Sixteenth Notes

52

(3)

Speaking Sixteenth Notes in Meter

55

(4)

Aligning Two or More Parts

59

(2)

Terms, Symbols, and Concepts

61

(1)

Chapter Eight

62

(8)

Simple and Compound Meters

62

(1)

Counting Compound Meter

63

(3)

Speaking Compound Meter

66

(3)

Terms, Symbols, and Concepts

69

(1)

Chapter Nine

70

(8)

Triplets

70

(1)

Triplets and Eighth Notes

70

(2)

Speaking Triplets

72

(1)

The Triplet Rest

73

(1)

The Triplet and the Basic Pulse

74

(1)

Counting Eighths, Triplets, and Sixteenths

74

(3)

Terms, Symbols, and Concepts

77

(1)

Chapter Ten

78

(8)

Different Values of the Basic Pulse

78

(1)

C and ©

78

(1)

Double Whole Note and Rest

79

(3)

Triplets with Different Note Values

82

(3)

Terms, Symbols, and Concepts

85

(1)

Chapter Eleven

86

(7)

Syncopation

86

(1)

Syncopated and Nonsyncopated Rhythms

87

(5)

Terms, Symbols, and Concepts

92

(1)

Chapter Twelve

93

(8)

Mixed Meter

93

(2)

Nonmetered Music

95

(1)

Marking the Basic Pulse

95

(2)

Complex Meters

97

(2)

Terms, Symbols, and Concepts

99

(2)

APPENDIXES

101

(1)

I. Table of Note and Rest Values

101

(1)

II. Rhythm Spacers

102

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Byencouraging students to be active learners and providing for variedlearning styles, The Music Kit has continued to foster the developmentand mastery of the basic skills needed for further study in music.Students perform frequent exercises, listen to music while examiningmusic scores, tap or clap along to recorded rhythms, and completecomputerized tutorials, drills, and quizzes that return personalizedfeedback and scores. Not merely a textbook, The Music Kit offers acomplete system for introductory music training, which includes aWorkbook, Rhythm Reader, Scorebook, audio CD, and computer software forMacintosh and Windows.

Featuring updated software—now available for Macintosh and Windowsplatforms—a newly recorded, fully-tracked audio CD, and increasedemphasis on aural skills, the Fourth Edition continues to raise the barfor music training excellence.

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