Mel Bay Students Complete Music Handbook
Publisher: Mel Bay Publications, Inc.
Published: August 21, 1990
Place of publication: Pacific, Mo., USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9780871669889
Subjects: Instruction & Study - General; Music
Other titles: Student's Complete Music Handbook
First sentence: THE STAFF: Music is written on a STAFF consisting of FIVE LINES and FOUR SPACES.
Table of contents: title: A guide to music theory; title: Musical notation and pitch; title: Staff notation and keyboard position; title: Duration of notes and rests--meter; title: The time signature; title: Key signatures--major/minor scales; title: Building a major scale; title: Table of major keys and signatures; title: Minor scales; title: Form and expression marks; title: Expression marks/abbreviations; title: Intervals and two-part harmony; title: Transposition; title: Triads--chords; title: Chord progressions; title: Chord building chart; title: A guide to music history; title: The pre-Renaissance period; title: The Renaissance period; title: Giovannie-Pierluigi da Palestrina; title: The Baroque period; title: Johann Sebastian Bach; title: George Frederic Handel; title: The Classical period; title: Franz Joseph Haydn; title: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; title: Ludwig van Beethoven; title: The Romantic period; title: Franz Schubert; title: Felix Mendelssohn; title: Frederic Chopin; title: Franz Liszt; title: Johannes Brahms; title: Peter Ilitch Tchaikovsky; title: The Impressionist period; title: Claude Debussy; title: The Contemporary period; title: Into the next century; title: A musical dictionary.