The Everything Essential Music Theory Book: A Guide to the Fundamentals of Reading, Writing, and Understanding Music by Marc Schonbrun, ISBN-13: 978-1440583391
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- Publisher: Adams Media; 1st edition (September 5, 2014)
- Language: English
- 288 pages
- ISBN-10: 9781440583391
- ISBN-13: 978-1440583391
Master musical skills quickly and easily!
From classical music to new age, hard rock, and pop, music has always played an important role in everyday life. Whether you’re an intermediate musician or an aspiring music major, The Everything Essential Music Theory Book is a guide to mastering one of the most important tools for every musician: musical understanding. This compact, portable volume covers all the basics, including:
- The construction of chords and scales
- How to understand rhythm and time signatures
- How keys are identified and organized
- Creating harmonization and melody
With each clear and easy-to-understand chapter, musician and educator Marc Schonbrun takes you through the essentials of music theory–the very glue that holds music together.
Table of Contents:
Title Page
Dedication
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Review of the Basics
Ins and Outs
Notes
Clefs
Time
Rhythm
Basic Rhythms
Rests
Meter
Chapter 2: Intervals
Go the Distance
Intervals from Scales
The Simple Intervals
Advanced Intervals
Inverted and Extended Intervals
Learning to Hear Intervals
Chapter 3: The Major Scale
Scales Defined
Spelling Scales
Scale Tones
How Scales Are Used in Music
Chapter 4: The Minor Scale
Minor Colors
The Definitive Approach
The Derivative Approach
Degrees in Minor Scales
Multiple Scales—Scale Clarity
Variant Variables
Chapter 5: Musical Keys and Key Signatures
Musical Organization
The System of Key Signatures
Relative Minor Keys
Minor Keys on Paper
Keys Change
Chapter 6: Modes and Other Scales
Modes—The Other Side of Scales
Seven Modal Scales
Looking at Modes on Their Own
Other Important Scales
Chapter 7: Chords
What Is a Chord?
Building Chords
Major Triads/Chords
Minor Triads/Chords
Diminished Triads
Augmented Triads
Chords in Scales
Diatonic Chords
Minor Scale Harmony
Hearing Chords
Chapter 8: Seventh Chords and Chord Inversions
Seventh Chords
Seventh-Chord Construction
Seventh-Chord Recap
Inverted Chords
Chapter 9: Movements: Chord Progressions
What Is a Chord Progression?
Progressions in Time
Diatonic Progressions and Solar Harmony
Solar Harmony and the Chord Ladder
Chapter 10: More Chord Progressions
Tonic and Dominant Relationships
Using Dominant Chords in Minor Keys
Harmonic Rhythm
Voice Leading
Chapter 11: Melodic Harmonization
What Is Melody?
Chord Tones and Passing Tones
True Melodic Harmonization
Single-Line Harmony
Chapter 12: Advanced Harmony
Beyond Diatonic
Modal Mixture
Modulation
Chapter 13: Jazz Harmony
What Is Jazz?
Jazz Harmony
Jazz Progressions
Blues Forms
Chapter 14: Transposition and Instrumentation
What Is Transposing?
Transposing Chant
B♭ Instruments
E♭ Instruments
F Instruments
Octave Transposes
Analyzing Scores
Instrument Ranges
Appendix A: Glossary
Appendix B: Reference Material
Copyright
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