The everything reading music book : a step-by-step introduction to understanding music notation and theory

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The everything reading music book : a step-by-step introduction to understanding music notation and theory

Author:

Schonbrun, Marc.

ISBN:

9781593373245

Publication Information:

Avon, MA : Adams Media, c2005.

Physical Description:

xv, 285 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.+ 1 sound disc (digital : 4 3/4 in.)

Series:

Everything series.

Subject Term:

Musical notation.

Sight-reading (Music)

Music theory -- Elementary works.

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Read and play music in no time!

Have fun learning to read music with this easy-to-follow guide. The Everything Reading Music Book has all it takes for you to quickly master and appreciate the fundamentals of music notation and theory so you can read and understand music like a pro. Filled with hundreds of examples and a bonus CD bringing the essential lessons to life, this is the all-in-one handbook you need to learn fast!

Get the skills you need to read music like an expert with:
Detailed descriptions of how to understand rhythm, rests, meter and time The key to reading expression markings, dynamics and other essential symbols How to form scales, chords, intervals, key signatures and other vital theory topics Chord progressions in all keys from basic to advanced progressions Demystification of instrument transpositions Instrument ranges, common foreign language terms and much more Applications to all instruments and every style of music
Sheets of music can be intimidating - music is another language! But The Everything Reading Music Book has all you need to speak fluently.

Author Notes

Marc Schonbrun is a noted educator and lecturer, holding clinics and seminars in music education and music technology around the country

Dr. Paul Siskind

Top Ten Things You Will Learn from Reading This Book	p. x
Foreword	p. xi
Introduction	p. xiii
1 The Written Note	p. 1
Why Read Music?	p. 2
The Evolution of Written Music	p. 3
Who Reads Music?	p. 4
Different Instruments Read Different Music	p. 6
The Different Forms of Written Music	p. 7
Digging In	p. 9
2 The Elements	p. 10
Pitch	p. 11
The Staff	p. 11
Identifying Notes	p. 14
Defining Clefs	p. 17
Accidentals	p. 21
3 Beat It: Rhythm	p. 27
Components of Rhythm	p. 28
Basic Rhythm	p. 28
More Advanced Rhythms	p. 31
Everthing Else	p. 35
4 The Long and Short of Resets	p. 40
Silent Notes	p. 41
Whole, Half, and Quarter Rests	p. 41
Smaller Rests	p. 43
Other Kinds of Rests	p. 44
5 Meter and Time	p. 46
Basic Time	p. 47
Simple Meter	p. 51
Compound Meter	p. 51
Other Meters	p. 55
Putting It All Together	p. 57
6 Conquering Rhythm	p. 59
Overcoming Rhythm	p. 60
Common Rhythmic Divisions	p. 61
Subdividing	p. 65
Rests and Syncopations	p. 67
Practicing Common Rhythms	p. 71
7 The Language of Music	p. 75
What Language?	p. 76
Tempo	p. 76
Dynamics	p. 78
Navigation in a Score	p. 84
8 Expression Markings and Other Music Symbols	p. 94
Expression Markings	p. 95
Articulations of Length	p. 97
Articulations of Strength	p. 99
Performance Indications	p. 102
Octave Signs	p. 104
Miscellaneous Symbols	p. 106
9 Instrument-Specific Notation	p. 110
Strings	p. 111
Brass	p. 113
Multiple Voices on One Staff	p. 114
Piano	p. 117
Guitar	p. 121
10 The Key to Music: Keys and Key Signatures	p. 126
The Concept of Musical Keys	p. 127
The System of Key Signatures	p. 129
The Circle of Keys	p. 130
Relative Minor Keys	p. 134
Using Keys for Particular Instruments	p. 137
When No Key Signature is Used	p. 137
11 Major Scales	p. 138
Scales Defined	p. 139
Basic Intervals	p. 140
The Construction of a Major Scale	p. 142
Musical DNA	p. 145
Scales and Harmony	p. 147
Applying Scales in Practice	p. 149
12 Beyond Major Scales: The Minor Scale	p. 152
Not Major, Minor	p. 153
Where Minor Actually Comes From	p. 154
The Variant Scales of Minor	p. 158
Playing Minor Scales	p. 160
Learning to Identify Minor Keys	p. 161
13 Space and Distance: Musical Intervals	p. 164
What Is an Interval?	p. 165
Basic Interval Types	p. 168
Enharmonic and Chromatic Intervals	p. 171
Inverted and Extended Intervals	p. 173
Intervals Quiz	p. 176
14 Vertical Thinking: Triads, Chords, Apeggios, and Seventh Chords	p. 177
Chords Origins	p. 178
Major and Minor Triads	p. 178
Diminished and Augmented Chords	p. 182
Relating Triads to Major	p. 184
Arpeggios	p. 188
Seventh Chords	p. 187
Triad Inversion	p. 190
Chords Written as Symbols	p. 193
15 Basic Harmony 101	p. 194
What Is Harmony?	p. 195
Consonance vs. Dissonance	p. 197
Basic Scale Harmony	p. 197
Diatonic Chords	p. 199
Minor Scale Harmony	p. 202
The Dominant Chord	p. 203
16 Basic Major Scale Chord Progressions	p. 207
Correlating Melody and Harmony	p. 208
Basics of Chord Progressions	p. 211
The Other Chords	p. 214
The Chord Ladder	p. 218
17 Advanced Chord Progressions	p. 219
Minor Keys	p. 220
Substitute Chords	p. 222
Cadences	p. 224
Inversions	p. 227
Voice Leading	p. 228
Smooth Bass	p. 229
18 Other Scales	p. 232
Modes	p. 233
Seven Modal Scales	p. 233
Looking at Modes on Their Own	p. 239
Other Important Scales	p. 240
19 Transposing Instruments	p. 244
What Is Transposing?	p. 245
Transposing Chant	p. 248
Bb Instruments	p. 249
Eb Instruments	p. 250
F Instruments	p. 251
Octave Transposes	p. 252
20 Musical Shorthand: Reading Lead Sheets	p. 255
Standard Notation	p. 256
The Elements	p. 257
Chord Rhythm	p. 260
Building a Bass	p. 262
Chord Charts	p. 263
How to Simplify a Lead Sheet	p. 264
Appendix A Scale and Chord Reference	p. 267
Appendix B Ranges of Common Instruments	p. 270
Appendix C Solutions to Exercises	p. 275
Index	p. 279

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