Coming soon. Music Fundamentals: A Balanced Approach

Contents

• A Visual Tour of Music Fundamentals: A Balanced Approach
• Preface
• MODULE 1 BASICS OF PITCH
• The Musical Alphabet
• The Keyboard
• White Keys
• The Staff
• Clefs
• The G Clef (Treble Clef)
• The Octave
• Ledger Lines
• Note Reading in the G Clef
• Relating the Treble Clef to the Keyboard
• Introduction to Singing—Why Sing?
• Singing in the Treble Clef
• The F Clef (Bass Clef)
• Note Reading in the F Clef
• Relating the Bass Clef to the Keyboard
• Singing in the Bass Clef
• The Grand Staff
• Further Study of Ledger Lines
• Octave Higher (8va) or Octave Lower (8vb)
• Workbook
• MODULE 2 BASICS OF RHYTHM
• Pulse: Feeling the Beat
• Types of Rhythmic Values
• Stems and Flags
• Rhythmic Patterns with Beams
• Time Signature, Bar Line, Double Bar Line
• Meter
• Simple Meter
• Comparing a Melody in Different Meters
• Conducting Patterns
• Workbook
• MODULE 3 BASICS OF RHYTHM: EXTENDING DURATION, ANACRUSIS, RESTS
• Tied Notes: Extending Duration
• Slurs
• Dotted Notes: Extending Duration
• Fermata
• Anacrusis
• Rests
• Workbook
• MODULE 4 ACCIDENTALS
• Sharp, Flat, Natural
• Drawing Accidentals on the Staff
• Relating Accidentals on the Staff to the Keyboard
• Enharmonic Spellings
• Diatonic and Chromatic Half Steps
• Chromatic Scales
• Whole Steps
• Double Sharp, Double Flat
• Workbook
• MODULE 5 RHYTHM: SIMPLE METER EXPANDED
• Subdividing the Quarter Note
• Counting Sixteenth Note Patterns
• Syncopation
• Changing the Pulse Note in Simple Meter: The Half Note
• Changing the Pulse Note in Simple Meter: The Eighth Note
• Composing Rhythms
• Workbook
• MODULE 6 MAJOR SCALE
• What Is a Major Scale?
• Writing Major Scales: Using Tetrachords
• Writing Major Scales: Using Whole and Half Steps
• Scale Degree Names—Major Keys
• Changing the Tonic—Singing
• Transposition
• Enharmonic Scales—Major Keys
• Workbook
• MODULE 7 MAJOR SCALE KEY SIGNATURES
• Major Scale Key Signatures
• Major Scales with Sharps
• Finding the Tonic Note in a Major Scale with Sharps
• Major Scales with Flats
• Finding the Tonic Note in a Major Scale with Flats
• Circle of Fifths—Major Keys
• “Courtesy” Accidentals
• Transposition: Using a Key Signature
• Workbook
• MODULE 8 RHYTHM: COMPOUND METER
• Melodies in Compound Meter
• First Method of Counting Compound Meter
• Second Method of Counting Compound Meter
• Rests
• Beams
• Dividing the Dotted Quarter
• Comparing 6/8 and 3/4
• Two-part Rhythm Exercises
• Further Exercises in Compound Meter: Dotted Eighth Note Rhythms
• Rhythm Review—1-, 2-, 3-part Exercises
• Workbook
• MODULE 9 MINOR SCALE
• Minor Key Signatures
• Relative Major and Minor Key Signatures
• Finding the Tonic Note in a Minor Key with Sharps
• Finding the Tonic Note in a Minor Key with Flats
• Parallel Major and Minor Key Signatures
• Circle of Fifths—Minor Keys
• Three Forms of Minor Scales
• Musical Examples in the Three Forms of Minor Scales
• Comparing Pieces in Major and Minor Keys
• Scale Degree Names in Minor
• Workbook
• MODULE 10 INTERVALS
• Identifying Intervals
• Consonance and Dissonance
• Defining Quality
• Intervals of the Major Scale: Perfect and Major
• Interval Shortcuts
• Changing Major Intervals: Minor
• Changing Major and Minor Intervals: Augmented, Diminished
• Changing Perfect Intervals: Augmented, Diminished
• The Tritone
• Simple and Compound Intervals
• Descending Intervals (Interval Inversion)
• Workbook
• MODULE 11 TRIADS
• Defining and Drawing Triads
• Qualities of Diatonic Triads
• Major Triad
• Constructing Major Triads
• Harmonizing Music Using Major Triads
• Minor Triad
• Constructing Minor Triads
• Diminished Triad
• Constructing Diminished Triads
• Augmented Triad
• Constructing Augmented Triads
• Augmented and Diminished Triads Using Double Sharps and Double Flats
• Workbook
• MODULE 12 RHYTHM: COMPOUND METER EXPANDED
• Changing the Pulse Note in Compound Meter: The Dotted Half Note and Dotted Eighth
• Note
• The Triplet
• The Duplet
• Workbook
• MODULE 13 TRIADS: ROMAN NUMERALS
• Triads of the Major Scale: Use of Roman Numerals
• Primary and Secondary Triads of the Major Scale
• Harmonizing Music in a Major Key Using Roman Numerals
• Triads of the Harmonic Minor Scale: Use of Roman Numerals
• Primary and Secondary Triads of the Harmonic Minor Scale
• Harmonizing Music in a Minor Key Using Roman Numerals
• Workbook
• MODULE 14 INVERSIONS OF TRIADS
• Defining Inversions: Root Position, First Inversion, and Second Inversion
• Harmonizing Music Using Inversions
• Triads in Open and Close Position
• Figured Bass Symbols
• Constructing and Identifying Triads Using Figured Bass Symbols
• Harmonizing Music Using Roman Numerals and Figured Bass Symbols
• Drawing Chord Progressions in Close Position
• Workbook
• MODULE 15 SEVENTH CHORDS
• Qualities of Seventh Chords
• Dominant Seventh Chords
• Two Methods of Writing Dominant Seventh Chords
• Harmonizing Music in Major Keys Using Triads or Dominant Seventh Chords in Root
• Position
• Inversions of Dominant Seventh Chords
• Figured Bass Symbols for Seventh Chords
• Harmonizing Music in Major Keys Using Inverted Dominant Seventh Chords
• Chord Progressions Using Dominant Seventh Chords in Major Keys
• Dominant Seventh Chords in Minor Keys
• Workbook
• MODULE 16 FORM IN MUSIC
• Phrase Structure: Antecedent, Consequent
• Cadences: Authentic, Half, Plagal, Deceptive
• Authentic Cadence
• Half Cadence
• Plagal Cadence
• Deceptive Cadence
• Forms
• Binary Form: Two-part Form
• Ternary Form: Three-part Form
• 32-Bar Form (AABA)
• 12-Bar Blues
• Repeat Signs
• First Ending, Second Ending
• Da Capo al Fine
• Dal Segno al Fine
• Coda
• Workbook
• APPENDICES
• APPENDIX 1 Musical Terms
• APPENDIX 2 Acoustics
• APPENDIX 3 C Clefs (Alto and Tenor)
• APPENDIX 4 Modes
• APPENDIX 5 Other Seventh Chords (Major, Minor, Half Diminished, Diminished)
• APPENDIX 6 Basic Guitar Chords
• The following appendices can be found on the companion website:
• APPENDIX 7 Keyboard Exercises (Scales, Triads, and Chord Progressions)
• APPENDIX 8 Analysis of Minuet, BWV Anh. 115 (J.S. Bach)
• APPENDIX 9 Analysis of Minuet, K.2 (W.A. Mozart)
• APPENDIX 10 Analysis of Serious Moments, Op. 130, No. 23 (C. Gurlitt)
• APPENDIX 11 Analysis of Time in a Bottle (J. Croce)
• APPENDIX 12 Sansa Kroma, Akan Mmoguo Song (African playground song)
• Credits
• Track Listing
• Index