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Mastering Music Fundamentals A Guided Step by Step Approach (with CD-ROM)

by: Kinney, Michael

Mastering Music Fundamentals A Guided Step by Step Approach (with CD-ROM)

by: Kinney, Michael

ISBN 13:
9780534618346
ISBN 10:
0534618340
Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 05/31/2004
Publisher: Cengage Learning

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Summary

MASTERING MUSIC FUNDAMENTALS is a prescriptive, hands-on introduction to the fundamentals of music that revolves around basic "principles" that are explained and reinforced with problems to solve. The book will guide you through a visual step-by-step process that anticipates and answers your questions. A CD-ROM, packaged free with every new copy of the text, includes additional exercises to increase mastery.

To the Instructor

xiii

Acknowledgments

The Tools of Music

(38)

The Musical Alphabet

(1)

The Grand Staff

(1)

Clefs

(1)

Bar Lines

(1)

Ledger Lines

(1)

Ledger Lines and Middle C

(2)

Notes and Their Stems

(1)

Notes Beams

(1)

Writing Intervals on the Staff

(1)

The Octave

(2)

Accidentals and Semitones (Half Steps)

(1)

Sharps and Flats

(2)

Enharmonics

(2)

Double Sharps and Flats

(2)

The Natural Sign

(2)

Chromatic and Diatonic Half Steps

(3)

The Movable C Clef

(4)

Dynamics

(1)

Repeat Signs

(1)

First and Second Endings

(1)

Review of Principles

(2)

Answer Sheets

(4)

Worksheets

(4)

Rhythm and Meter

(60)

Notes and Rests

(1)

The Beat (Pulse)

(1)

Meter

(1)

Simple Meter

(24)

Notes and Their Respective Rests

(1)

The Meter Signature

(2)

Dividing the Beat into Halves

(1)

Eighth Notes and Eighth Rests

(4)

Subdividing the Quarter Note

(1)

Sixteenth Notes

(1)

Downbeats and Upbeats

(1)

Sixteenth Rest

(3)

Dotted and Tied Notes

(4)

The Dotted Eighth Note

(5)

Cut Time (Alla Breve)

(3)

Compound Meter

(7)

Compound Meter Beat Unit Divisions

(3)

Rhythmic Mode Mixture

(7)

Eighth-Note Triplets

(2)

Quarter-Note Triplets

(2)

Duplets

(2)

Anacrusis, Metronome, and Tempo

(19)

The Anacrusis

(2)

The Metronome Marking and Tempo

(3)

Review of Principles

(1)

Answer Sheets

(7)

Worksheets

(6)

Scales

(74)

Aural Characteristics of Major and Minor Scales

(1)

Brief Review of Important Concepts

100

(3)

The Sounds of Scales

103

(1)

Major Scales

103

(19)

Major Scales and Pitch Relationships

103

(5)

Review of Diatonic and Chromatic Half Steps

108

(2)

The Asymmetrical and Symmetrical Nature of Scales

110

(2)

The Tetrachord

112

(1)

Constructing Major Scales

113

(9)

Minor Scales

122

(19)

Constructing Minor Scales

122

(1)

The Pure Minor Scales

123

(4)

The Harmonic Minor Scale

127

(4)

The Melodic Minor Scale

131

(5)

The Necessity of the Harmonic and Melodic Minor Scales

136

(5)

Whole-Tone Scales

141

(6)

Pentatonic Scales

147

(4)

Chromatic Scales

151

(22)

Review of Principles

158

(2)

Answer Sheets

160

(7)

Worksheets

167

(6)

Key Signatures

173

(44)

The Circle of Fifths

174

(3)

Major Key Signatures

177

(19)

The Right Side of the Circle of Fifths: Major Key Signatures Requiring Sharps

177

(3)

The Left Side of the Circle of Fifths: Major Key Signatures Requiring Flats

180

(4)

Applying the Circle of Fifths

184

(3)

Constructing Major Key Signatures Using Sharps

187

(2)

Constructing Major Key Signatures Using Flats

189

(3)

Identifying Major Key Signatures Written in Sharps

192

(2)

Identifying Major Key Signatures Written in Flats

194

(2)

Minor Key Signatures

196

(21)

Identifying the Minor Key Signatures

196

(4)

Constructing the Minor Key Signatures

200

(4)

Parallel Major and Minor Keys

204

(1)

Another Method for Constructing Minor Key Signatures

205

(4)

Review of Principles

209

(2)

Answer Sheets

211

(2)

Worksheets

213

(4)

Modes

217

(34)

Major Key Signatures

218

(1)

The Seven Church Modes

218

(8)

Using the C Major Scale to Compute Half-Step Locations in the Modes

226

(1)

Mode Conversion Technique

227

(2)

Constructing Modes, Method One: Locating Half Steps

229

(6)

Constructing Modes, Method Two: Utilizing Key Signatures

235

(4)

Constructing Modes, Method Three: Relating to Major and Minor Scales

239

(2)

Singing the Modes

241

(4)

Review of Principles

245

(2)

Answer Sheets

247

(2)

Worksheets

249

(2)

Intervals

251

(54)

Melodic and Harmonic Intervals

252

(1)

Simple and Compound Intervals

253

(1)

Measuring Intervals

253

(1)

Identifying Major Intervals

254

(2)

Constructing a Major Interval above a Given Pitch

256

(1)

Identifying Minor Intervals

257

(1)

Constructing a Minor Interval above a Given Pitch

258

(2)

Identifying Perfect Intervals

260

(1)

Constructing a Perfect Interval above a Given Pitch

261

(2)

Identifying Diminished Intervals

263

(2)

Constructing Diminished Intervals above a Given Pitch

265

(3)

Identifying Augmented Intervals above a Given Pitch

268

(1)

Constructing Augmented Intervals

269

(2)

Doubly Augmented and Doubly Diminished Intervals

271

(1)

Compound Intervals

272

(5)

Identifying Intervals When the Lower Pitch Has No Associated Key Signature

277

(3)

Constructing Intervals above Pitches Having No Associated Key Signature

280

(2)

Inversions of Simple Intervals

282

(3)

Constructing Simple Intervals below a Given Pitch

285

(5)

The Tritone: ``The Devil in Music''

290

(2)

Consonance and Dissonance

292

(2)

Review of Principles

294

(2)

Answer Sheets

296

(5)

Worksheets

301

(4)

Triads

305

(42)

Triad Types

306

(1)

Qualities of Triads

307

(1)

Identifying Major Triads

308

(1)

Constructing Major Triads

309

(2)

Identifying Minor Triads

311

(2)

Identifying Diminished Triads

313

(3)

Identifying Augmented Triads

316

(2)

Constructing Minor, Diminished, and Augmented Triads

318

(3)

Constructing and Identifying Triads in Which the Root Does Not Have an Associated Key Signature

321

(3)

Constructing Triads When the Given Pitch Is Not the Root

324

(3)

The Intervals Contained in the Four C Triad Types

327

(5)

Inversions of Triads

332

(1)

Close and Open Position

333

(1)

Identifying Triad Voicings and Their Inversions

334

(4)

Review of Principles

338

(2)

Answer Sheets

340

(5)

Worksheets

345

(2)

Harmonic Functions of Triads

347

(46)

Diatonic Triads in Major Keys

347

(5)

Diatonic Triads in Minor Keys

352

(1)

Diatonic Triads in the Harmonic Minor Form

352

(1)

Diatonic Triads in the Ascending Melodic Minor Form

353

(3)

Triads and Their Functions

356

(2)

The Functions of the Diatonic Triads in the Harmonic Minor Form

358

(1)

The Functions of the Diatonic Triads in the Pure Minor Form

358

(1)

The Nonfunctioning Dominant Triad

359

(1)

The Subtonic

359

(1)

The Functions of the Diatonic Triads in the Ascending Melodic Minor Form

360

(1)

Triads in Perspective

361

(1)

Constructing Diatonic Triads in Major Keys

361

(2)

Constructing Diatonic Triads in Minor Keys

363

(3)

Multiple Functions of Diatonic Triads

366

(8)

A Technique for Remembering the Possible Functions of Diatonic Triads in Different Keys

374

(2)

Diatonic Triads Resulting from the Melodic Form of the Minor Scale

376

(5)

Songwriting Tips

381

(3)

A Summary of the Diatonic Triads in the Harmonic and Melodic Minor Forms

384

(1)

Review of Principles

385

(1)

Answer Sheets

386

(3)

Worksheets

389

(4)

Transposition

393

(32)

The Technique of Transposition

394

(4)

The Process of Transposing for Instruments

398

(2)

Reading a Transposed Instrumental Part from a Score

400

(5)

Tricks of the Trade

405

(3)

Transposing Chromatically Altered Pitches as Altered Scale Degrees

408

(3)

Reading Pitches in the Movable C Clefs Using the Process of Transposition

411

(2)

Reading Pitches in the Mezzo Soprano Clef

413

(2)

Reading Pitches in the Alto Clef

415

(1)

Reading Pitches in the Tenor Clef

416

(1)

Review of Principles

417

(1)

Answer Sheets

418

(3)

Worksheets

421

(4)

Appendix

425

(8)

A Section of the Piano Keyboard

425

(1)

The Major Key Signatures

425

(1)

The Circle of Fifths

426

(1)

Transposition Chart

427

(6)

Glossary

433

(8)

Index

441

(8)

Blank Work Staves

449

(10)

Blank Notes Pages

459

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Mastering Music Fundamentals A Guided Step by Step Approach (with CD-ROM)

Mastering Music Fundamentals A Guided Step by Step Approach (with CD-ROM)

9780534618346

0534618340

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