The Everything Essential Music Theory Book
eBook - ePub

The Everything Essential Music Theory Book

A Guide to the Fundamentals of Reading, Writing, and Understanding Music

  1. 288 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Everything Essential Music Theory Book

A Guide to the Fundamentals of Reading, Writing, and Understanding Music

About this book

Master musical skills quickly and easily!From classical music to new age, hard rock, and pop, music has always played an important role in everyday life. Whether you're an intermediate musician or an aspiring music major, The Everything Essential Music Theory Book is a guide to mastering one of the most important tools for every musician: musical understanding. This compact, portable volume covers all the basics, including:

  • The construction of chords and scales
  • How to understand rhythm and time signatures
  • How keys are identified and organized
  • Creating harmonization and melody

With each clear and easy-to-understand chapter, musician and educator Marc Schonbrun takes you through the essentials of music theory--the very glue that holds music together.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Dedication
  3. Contents
  4. Introduction
  5. Chapter 1: Review of the Basics
  6. Chapter 2: Intervals
  7. Chapter 3: The Major Scale
  8. Chapter 4: The Minor Scale
  9. Chapter 5: Musical Keys and Key Signatures
  10. Chapter 6: Modes and Other Scales
  11. Chapter 7: Chords
  12. Chapter 8: Seventh Chords and Chord Inversions
  13. Chapter 9: Movements: Chord Progressions
  14. Chapter 10: More Chord Progressions
  15. Chapter 11: Melodic Harmonization
  16. Chapter 12: Advanced Harmony
  17. Chapter 13: Jazz Harmony
  18. Chapter 14: Transposition and Instrumentation
  19. Appendix A: Glossary
  20. Appendix B: Reference Material
  21. Copyright