Understand music theory
By: Margaret Richer
Edition: New edition.
Series: Teach yourself; Teach yourself books
Publisher: Teach Yourself
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 173
ISBN-13: 9781473614871
Subjects: Music theory; Textbooks; Music; Self-instruction; Instruction and study
Description: "A practical overview of the mechanics of music"--Cover
Notes: Companion CD contains practice activities keyed to examples in the text.

Includes index.

"Glossary": pages 163-169.

Suitable for complete beginners.
Table of contents: title: Introducing rhythm. Note values ; Time signatures ; Time signature of 2/4 ; Rests ; Tempo; title: Pitch. The keyboard and musical alphabet ; The staff ; Beginning to read notes in treble and bass clef; title: Melody. Combining rhythm and pitch ; Analysing melodies ; Creating rhythms ; Phrases ; What makes a good melody?; title: More about pitch. The octave ; Completing the notes on the staff ; Notation of stems ; Leger lines ; Other clefs; title: More about rhythm. 3/4 time ; Dotted notes ; Tied notes ; Quavers (eighth notes) ; Semiquavers (sixteenth notes) ; Demi-semiquavers (thirty-second notes) ; Triplets ; Other less commonly used time signatures ; Incomplete bars ; Syncopation; title: Sharps and flats. Sharps and flats on the keyboard ; Notation for sharps and flats ; Accidentals ; Double sharps and double flats; title: Intervals. Semitones and whole tones ; Other intervals ; Minor, diminished and augmented intervals ; Inverted intervals ; Compound intervals; title: More about intervals. Sight reading ; Transposing; title: Major scales and key signatures. Different types of scale ; Major scale construction ; Key signatures ; The circle of fifths ; Writing key signatures; title: Minor scales and key signatures. Minor scale construction ; Natural, harmonic and melodic forms ; Key signatures ; Parallel and relative minor key signatures ; The blues scale; title: Compound time signatures. Counting 6/8 ; Other compound time signatures ; Comparing simple and compound time; title: Introducing chords. Major and minor triads ; Inversions ; Augmented and diminished triads ; Chord symbols ; Added note chords ; Notation of chords; title: Harmony. Chord names and functions ; Cadences ; Chorale style ; Figured bass ; Counterpoint ; Modulation; title: Adding accompaniment to a melody. Finding the most suitable chords ; Transposing melody and accompaniment ; Writing an accompaniment; title: Musical form. Repetition ; Introduction and coda ; Form represented by letters ; Sonata or first movement form ; Composite form ; Words and music; title: Tone colour and interpretation. Different tone colours ; Arrangement and orchestration ; The conductor ; Signs used to interpret music; title: Ornaments and non-harmonic notes. Ornaments ; Non-harmonic notes; title: Modern music theory. Chords ; Atonality ; Other scales ; Neoclassical ideas ; Other innovations ; The future.