The Music Theory series is designed from the ground-up to explain the terminology and musical structures needed for modern applications. Level One is an introductory course which covers music notation, key signatures, basic scales, intervals, modes, diatonic relationships and 3-and 4-part chords. Level Two is an intermediate-level course covering larger chord forms, “definitive” chords in major and minor keys, substitutions, analysis of key centers in tunes, “upper structure” chords, voiceleading, and pentatonic and blues scale applications, a complete glossary of terms, and hundreds of written theory exercises with answers.
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Suitable for Pre-Grade 1 Level Theory. Contents: Note Values • Bars and Time Signatures • The Stave and the Musical Alphabet • The Treble Clef • The Bass Clef • Rests • Dynamics • Ties • Dots • Repeats • More Words and Signs • Sharps and Flats • The Semiquaver and Its Rest.
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Counterpoint is the technique of composing two or more melodic lines that are sounded at the same time. Whether a guitar riff against a vocal melody, a bass line against a keyboard melody, or a violin and cello duet, in good counterpoint, these musical lines work together while also maintaining a unique identity. This book combines the foundational principles of traditional classical counterpoint with modern-day examples, demonstrating how counterpoint can play an important role in today's popular music. Concepts include: intervals; melodic motion; writing melodies; voice leading; species counterpoint; practical uses in different styles; and more. Includes access to online audio examples of counterpoint analysis and exercises!
Audio is accessed online using the unique code inside the book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
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Guitar - Score pad, 8-1/2 x 11, fretboard paper, 96 pages, 4 diagrams/page, includes Guitar Notation guide.
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32-page stitched book with Kermit the Frog on each page. Large 6-staves per page; 81″ x 81″. Includes music notation guide.
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Whether you're a beginner, an amateur, a professional or a teacher, you will find this book an excellent means of continuing your musical journey. This is a step-by-step guide to help you develop essential skills for improvisation. The concepts presented are first demonstrated over the 12-bar blues progression; in later chapters, the ideas are realized over rhythm changes and in original compisitions based on the chord progressions of jazz standards. Topics include: scales and modes • chords and riffs • transposition • musical quotation • phrasing and articulation.
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Étude du Rythme is an educational tool proposed by Georges Dandelot (1895-1975), a French composer, following the concept that rhythm is the foundation on which melody and harmony are then layered. It was conceived to progressively teach musicians how to deal with complicated rhythms such as those used by Bartok or Ravel. This volume is the first of five composing a step-by-step method to learn and master rhythm in music. It covers basics and simple melodies; the second volume introduces more complexity on the same concept, then the third one should help pianists to play different rhythms with each hand. Volumes four and five use complex combinations of rhythms and melody with binary and tertiary tempos.
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The most essential points in the study of the basics of music are presented in this combined textbook/workbook series that is comprehensive, practical and progressive. Available in 9 volumes of exercises and review tests. Volume 1: Treble clef notes, letter names, lines and spaces. Volume 2: Bass clef notes, letter names, lines and spaces. Volume 3: Ledger lines, treble and bass clefs, notes and spaces. Volume 4: Tonic sol-fa syllables, treble and bass clefs, ledger lines, time values, tie and slur, accidentals. Volume 5: Major key signatures, major scales, time signature, accents, triplets, syncopation. Volume 6: Accents in compound time signatures, grouping of rests, intervals, diatonic and chromatic, inversions of intervals. Volume 7: Musical terms, the dot, harmonic minor scale, minor key signatures, melodic minor scale. Volume 8: Alto and tenor clefs, chromatic scale, triads and inversions. Volume 9: Transposition, dominant seventh.
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Contains the material from books 1, 2 and 3
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Designed for band, choir, orchestras or private study, this book teaches how to read basic rhythms from the printed page. This practical, daily step-by-step guide is suitable for all instruments and levels of musical abilities. It clearly explains: beats, time signatures and tempo; note shapes and their time values; and ties, rests and dots. Other topics covered include: musical tips and terms; sight reading; practice exercises in 2/2, 2/4, 3/4, 4/4 and 6/8 time; sample songs in different keys, meters, and tempo.
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An excellent workshop from the assistant chair of the Ear Training Department at the prestigious Berklee College of Music, this DVD is a vital intro to the topic for songwriters and performers looking to improve their listening skills and become better musicians. You'll learn to: recognize chord progressions quickly and confidently, and incorporate them into your writing and performing, listen to music more analytically, and apply this knowledge to all of your projects. 73 minutes.
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The most essential points in the study of the basics of music are presented in this combined textbook/workbook series that is comprehensive, practical and progressive. Available in 9 volumes of exercises and review tests. Volume 1: Treble clef notes, letter names, lines and spaces. Volume 2: Bass clef notes, letter names, lines and spaces. Volume 3: Ledger lines, treble and bass clefs, notes and spaces. Volume 4: Tonic sol-fa syllables, treble and bass clefs, ledger lines, time values, tie and slur, accidentals. Volume 5: Major key signatures, major scales, time signature, accents, triplets, syncopation. Volume 6: Accents in compound time signatures, grouping of rests, intervals, diatonic and chromatic, inversions of intervals. Volume 7: Musical terms, the dot, harmonic minor scale, minor key signatures, melodic minor scale. Volume 8: Alto and tenor clefs, chromatic scale, triads and inversions. Volume 9: Transposition, dominant seventh.
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The most essential points in the study of the basics of music are presented in this combined textbook/workbook series that is comprehensive, practical and progressive. Available in 9 volumes of exercises and review tests. Volume 1: Treble clef notes, letter names, lines and spaces. Volume 2: Bass clef notes, letter names, lines and spaces. Volume 3: Ledger lines, treble and bass clefs, notes and spaces. Volume 4: Tonic sol-fa syllables, treble and bass clefs, ledger lines, time values, tie and slur, accidentals. Volume 5: Major key signatures, major scales, time signature, accents, triplets, syncopation. Volume 6: Accents in compound time signatures, grouping of rests, intervals, diatonic and chromatic, inversions of intervals. Volume 7: Musical terms, the dot, harmonic minor scale, minor key signatures, melodic minor scale. Volume 8: Alto and tenor clefs, chromatic scale, triads and inversions. Volume 9: Transposition, dominant seventh.
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The most essential points in the study of the basics of music are presented in this combined textbook/workbook series that is comprehensive, practical and progressive. Available in 9 volumes of exercises and review tests. Volume 1: Treble clef notes, letter names, lines and spaces. Volume 2: Bass clef notes, letter names, lines and spaces. Volume 3: Ledger lines, treble and bass clefs, notes and spaces. Volume 4: Tonic sol-fa syllables, treble and bass clefs, ledger lines, time values, tie and slur, accidentals. Volume 5: Major key signatures, major scales, time signature, accents, triplets, syncopation. Volume 6: Accents in compound time signatures, grouping of rests, intervals, diatonic and chromatic, inversions of intervals. Volume 7: Musical terms, the dot, harmonic minor scale, minor key signatures, melodic minor scale. Volume 8: Alto and tenor clefs, chromatic scale, triads and inversions. Volume 9: Transposition, dominant seventh.
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The most essential points in the study of the basics of music are presented in this combined textbook/workbook series that is comprehensive, practical and progressive. Available in 9 volumes of exercises and review tests. Volume 1: Treble clef notes, letter names, lines and spaces. Volume 2: Bass clef notes, letter names, lines and spaces. Volume 3: Ledger lines, treble and bass clefs, notes and spaces. Volume 4: Tonic sol-fa syllables, treble and bass clefs, ledger lines, time values, tie and slur, accidentals. Volume 5: Major key signatures, major scales, time signature, accents, triplets, syncopation. Volume 6: Accents in compound time signatures, grouping of rests, intervals, diatonic and chromatic, inversions of intervals. Volume 7: Musical terms, the dot, harmonic minor scale, minor key signatures, melodic minor scale. Volume 8: Alto and tenor clefs, chromatic scale, triads and inversions. Volume 9: Transposition, dominant seventh.
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Tom van der Geld's Eartraining is encyclopedic in its coverage from A to Z of the basics of jazz theory; it is systematic to such a degree that a student can work by him or herself with the book alone; it can be used as an excellent text with assignments and the like for a formal classroom situation; it covers the ear, theoretical application and even rhythm to some degree. It is the combination of all these elements which makes this book mandatory for the beginning student of both jazz and popular music. Contents include lessons on the chromatic scale, major scale and key centres, intervals and modes as well as developing skills in basic rhythm and jazz harmony. Each lesson is divided into 3 parts: relevant theoretical background, musical examples on compact disc and dictation exercises. Foreword • Introduction • Chromatic Scale • Rhythm Studies (1) • Major Scale and Key Centers • Intervals and Inversions • Modes • Rhythm Studies (2) • Triads • Rhythm Studies (3) • Diatonic Seventh Chords • Secondary Dominants • Deminished Seventh Chord • Acknowledgments • Appendix • Solutions
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Perfect for homework or personal composition projects, this wide-staff manuscript pad features 32 pages with six large staves and a music notation guide, plus awesome artwork from the Pirates of the Caribbean movies!
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Being a fascinatingly unique composer, Olivier Messiaen pushes the conventions of composition to its very limits. The composer's music remains ever-popular and The Technique of My Musical Language provides the key and necessary knowledge in to the study of his delightful music. Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) was admitted to the Paris Conservatoire at the mere age of 11, where he won many prizes. As a passionate ornithologist, as well as organist and composer, many of Messiaen's works depict bird song. His music is rhythmically complex and harmonically and melodically distinct, often using modes of limited transposition. It is for these reasons that the composer compiled The Technique of My Musical Language. The book contains text with musical examples, describing unique elements of his music, such as ametrical music, his rhythmic notations and his modes of limited transposition, among many others. For all fans of Messiaen, The Technique of My Musical Language is essential to the understanding of the composer's much loved music. MORE»
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Étude du Rythme is an educational tool proposed by Georges Dandelot (1895-1975), a French composer, agreeing with the concept that rhythm is the foundation on which melody and harmony are then layered. It was conceived to progressively teach musicians how to deal with complicated rhythms such as those used by Bartok or Ravel. This volume is the fourth out of five composing a step-by-step method to learn and master rhythm in music. It follows on the knowledge acquired in the three first volumes and uses complex combinations of rhythms and melody with binary and tertiary tempos.
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Anyone who can pick up a pencil can draw. Anyone who can sing or play an instrument can compose. “The Composer's Handbook” is a step-by-step guide to the composition of melody, harmony, form and texture and covers styles and techniques from plainchant to minimalism, rock and rave.
- for composers aged 11-18 • games and groupwork for the beginner • projects for the more advanced • illustrations and worked examples of complete pieces
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The book aims to be a guide through the little universe which is the working place of the man who writes music. As such it talks predominantly to the layman,although the expert composer may also find some stimulation in it... From the center of basic theory the discussion will spread out into all the realms of experience which border the technical aspects of composing, such as aesthetics, sociology, philosophy, and so on.
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Here is a tool that every musician and aspiring songwriter will want to have! In this unique package we provide you with a series of musical “templates” created by top Nashville studio musicians. Each template is a complete song, written in the styles and tempos appropriate to the Country Styles genre. The CD contains a demo track and ten of the template backgrounds to which you will write the melody and lyrics. The music-notebook contains an innovatively printed staff-template showing you intros, verses, chorus, bridges, and instrumental sections; a full “roadmap”; as well as chords and rhythms, on top of which you scribe your melody and write the lyrics below. You listen to the music, close your eyes, and let the “songwriter” in you go to work! When you finish the melody and lyrics, you have a great, commercial, royalty-free song to which you own the full copyright! This great tool is both fun and a key to your songwriing future! Includes a high-quality, newly engraved music notebook containing the printed music-staffs, chords, tempi, and layout-charts for each song, as well as several pages of extra manuscript paper; and a compact disc containing a demo-track as well as ten tracks containing the backgrounds to each song.
Accompaniment: Tim Smith and an All-Star Nashville Country Band
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Étude du Rythme is an educational tool proposed by Georges Dandelot (1895-1975), a French composer, agreeing with the concept that rhythm is the foundation on which melody and harmony are then layered. It was conceived to progressively teach musicians how to deal with complicated rhythms such as those used by Bartok or Ravel. This is the fifth and last volume of a step-by-step method to learn and master rhythm in music. It follows on the knowledge acquired in the four first volumes, highlighting the “mixed measures” and using complex combinations of rhythms and melody with binary and tertiary tempos.
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Étude du Rythme is an educational tool proposed by Georges Dandelot (1895-1975), a French composer, agreeing with the concept that rhythm is the foundation on which melody and harmony are then layered. It was conceived to progressively teach musicians how to deal with complicated rhythms such as those used by Bartok or Ravel. This volume is the second of five composing a step-by-step method to learn and master rhythm in music. It introduces more complexity with simple exercises and melodies. The third one should help pianists to play different rhythms with each hand and the volumes four and five use complex combinations of rhythms and melody with binary and tertiary tempos. MORE»
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The Composer's Handbook 2 expands the do-it-yourself approach to composing by combining “tricks of the trade” with step-by-step guides to the composition of melody, harmony, form and textures. The book covers styles and techniques from serialism, minimalism, world music, rock, dance, music technology to music for film and the stage.
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Complete Theory of Music by Jacques Chailley and Henri Challan is a really complete method for beginning musicians. This first volume of a series of two covers the nine first chapters of the method. It features: I. Different elements of music II. Music writing and symbols III. Rhythms IV. Intervals elements V. Intervals VI. Theory of Tonality [1/2] VII. Theory of Tonality [2/2] VIII. Tonality application IX. Additional music symbols. Really focused on theory and including some exercises, this book will be a better fit for mature music beginners. Henri Challan was a French composer and professor at the Paris Conservatoire who won the Grand Prix de Rome and who has wrote many music analysis. Jacques Chailley was a musician and Deputy Director of the Paris Conservatoire. MORE»
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Suitable for Grade 2 Theory Exams.
Contents: Even More Tempo Markings • Ledger Lines • The Major Scales of A, Bb and Eb • Introducing 2/2, 3/2 and 4/2 • Moods in Music • Harmonic Minor Scales • Another Time Signature: 3/8 • New Words and Signs • Melodic Minor Scales • Grouping of Rests • Triplets • Completing a Four Bar Rhythm. MORE»
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Georges Dandelot (1895-1975) studied at the Paris Conservatoire before spending his career as a piano teacher and composer. He published a variety of treatise and studies to aid piano technique, including his third volume of Studies for rhythm. This Dandelot volume considers that rhythm is the fundamental element of music, followed by melody and harmony. Studies for Rhythm addresses simultaneous rhythms in simple measures, compound measures and mixed measures. Given that rhythm is imperative to music, Dandelot's Studies for Rhythm is an essential accompaniment to piano education. MORE»
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Writing pad, 8-1/2x11, 80 pages, 6 stave, wide-ruled, includes Music Basics chart.
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