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Fundamentals of Music Rudiments, Musicianship, and Composition

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ISBN-10: 020511833X

ISBN-13: 9780205118335

Edition: 6th 2013

Authors: Earl Henry, Susan Piagentini, Jennifer Snodgrass

List price: $146.65
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Mastering Fundamentals in a Musical Context Fundamentals of Musicprovides a clear and comprehensive approach to mastering the language of music. The authors invite students to create composition projects, develop aural skills through listening exercises, and analyze musical examples from various styles and genres. With two new authors, this text has been thoroughly revised and expanded, yet maintains the intent of its original author Earl Henry. The optional MySearchLab with eText powered by Exposition Music provides opportunities for students to practice their skills and receive immediate feedback. Each chapter has a pretest, post-test, and chapter review. Separate drills are included for…    
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Book details

List price: $146.65
Edition: 6th
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Publication date: 3/2/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 480
Size: 8.25" wide x 10.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 2.134
Language: English

Notating Rhythm
Notating Pitch
The Keyboard
Simple Meters
Major Scales and Keys
Intervals
Compound Meters
Minor Scales and Keys
Introduction to Form
Triads
Chords and Symbols
Tonality
Harmonization
Notating Rhythm
Essential Terms and Symbols
Traditional Western Music
Notation
The Notation of Rhythm
Note Values
Rest Values
Measures
Time Signatures
Calligraphy: Note and Rest Values
Smaller Rhythmic Values
A Step Further: Larger and Smaller Note Values
Calligraphy: Eighths and Sixteenths
The Dot
The Tie
Flags and Beams
Building Skills
Creative Projects
Analysis in Context
Notating Pitch
Essential Terms and Symbols
The Staff
The Clef
Stem Direction
Tricks of the Trade: Learning the "ABCs"
Ledger Lines
Calligraphy: Clefs and Ledger Lines
The Octave
The Grand Staff
Musicianship 2-1
Building Skills
Creative Projects
Analysis in Context
The Keyboard
Essential Terms and Symbols
The Keyboard
Octave Designation
Musicianship 3-1
Accidentals
The Sharp
The Flat
The Natural Sign
Double Sharps and Double Flats
Enharmonic Equivalents
Diatonic Pitches
Diatonic and Chromatic Half Steps
Musicianship 3-2
Calligraphy: Notating Accidentals
Building Skills
Creative Projects
Analysis in Context
Simple Meters
Essential Terms and Symbols
Metric Accent
Triple Meter
Duple Meter
Quadruple Meter
Rest Notation
Tricks of the Trade: Using Counting Syllables
Musicianship 4-1
Beat Division and Subdivision
Meters with an Eighth-Note Beat
Alla Breve and Common Time
A Step Further: Conducting
Syncopation
Calligraphy: Beaming
Tricks of the Trade: Counting Syllables
Equivalent Meters
Musicianship 4-2
Building Skills
Creative Projects
Analysis in Context
Major Scales and Keys
Essential Terms and Symbols
The Major Scales
Scale Degrees
Musicianship 5-1
Transposing Major Scales
Musicianship 5-2
Major Keys
Key Signature
Order of Sharps and Flats
Major Key Signatures
The Circle of Fifths
Tricks of the Trade: Learning Key Signatures
Musicianship 5-3
Building Skills
Creative Projects
Analysis in Context
Intervals
Essential Terms
Interval Size
Musicianship 6-1
Interval Quality
Perfect Intervals
Understanding Quality by Major-Scale Comparison
Musicianship 6-2
A Step Further: Doubly Augmented and Diminished Intervals
Major/Minor Intervals
Guidelines for Interval Construction and Identification
Musicianship 6-3
Interval Inversion
Writing Intervals Below a Given Pitch
Building Skills
Creative Projects
Analysis in Context
Compound Meters
Essential Terms and Symbols
Note Values in Compound Meters
Compound Time Signatures
Beat Subdivision
Tricks of the Trade: Meter Signatures
Calligraphy: Beaming in Compound Meters
Tricks of the Trade: Counting in Compound Meters
Musicianship 7-1
Borrowed Division
Tricks of the Trade: Counting the Borrowed Division
Musicianship 7-2
Building Skills
Creative Projects
Analysis in Context
Minor Scales and Keys
Essential Terms
Major and Minor Modes
Minor Scales
The Parallel Relationship
Minor Key Signatures
The Relative Relationship
Tricks of the Trade: Parallel Major and Minor Keys
Musicianship 8-1
Variations in Minor
Natural Minor
Harmonic Minor
Melodic Minor
Musicianship 8-2
Musicianship 8-3
Building Skills
Creative Projects
Analysis in Context
Introduction to Form
Essential Terms and Symbols
Building Phrases
Unifying and Extending Phrases
Repetition
Variation
Sequence
Contrast
The Period
Phrase Group
Double Period
Other Forms
Verse and Refrain
Thirty-Two Bar Song Form
Building Skills
Creative Projects
Analysis in Context
Triads
Essential Terms
Triad Quality
Major and Minor Triads
Musicianship 10-1
Diminished and Augmented Triads
Identifying and Constructing Triads
Triads and Stability
Musicianship 10-2
Inverted Triads
First and Second Inversions
Musicianship 10-3
Constructing Triads with Given Third or Fifth
Triads with Given Third
Triads with Given Fifth
Musicianship 10-4
Building Skills
Creative Projects
Analysis in Context
Chords and Symbols
Essential Terms and Symbols
Triad and Chord Identification
Doubling
Identifying Chords
Arpeggiation
Musicianship 11-1
Chord Symbols
Roman-Numeral Analysis
Diatonic Triads in Major Keys
Figured-Bass Symbols
Musicianship 11-2
Diatonic Triads in Minor Keys
Building Skills
Creative Projects
Analysis in Context
Tonality
Essential Terms
Texture
Homophony
A Step Further: Improvisation
Tonality
Melodic Tendency
Musicianship 12-1
Harmonic Function
Tonic, Predominant, and Dominant Functions
Harmonic Dissonance
Seventh Chords
Other Types of Seventh Chords and Symbols
Musicianship 12-2
Building Skills
Creative Projects
Analysis in Context
Harmonization
Essential Terms
Harmonization
Harmonic Cadences
Planning Cadences in a Melody
Harmonic Rhythm
Planning Harmonic Rhythm in a Harmonization
Harmonizing a Melody
Nonchord Tones
Vocal Ranges
Keys and Transposition
Planning the Harmony
Issues in Jazz and Popular Styles
A Step Further: Copyright
Musicianship 13-1
Building Skills
Creative Projects
Analysis in Context
Appendixes
The Nature of Sound
Essential Terms
Sound Waves
Amplitude and Intensity
Timbre and Quality
The Harmonic Series
Duration and Length
Terms and Symbols of Tempo and Expression
Essential Terms
Tempo
Dynamics
Expression
Short Glossary of Italian Terms
The C Clefs
Essential Terms
Alto and Tenor Clefs
Building Skills
Answers to Ear Training Exercises
Modes and Other Scales
The Modes
Other Modes and Scales
Building Skills
Creative Projects
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