Learn to Read Music

Name: Learn to Read Music
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ISBN: 9780671210274

ISBN-10: 0671210270

ISBN-13: 9780671210274

Edition: 1956 (Revised)

Authors: Howard Shanet

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A study of the fundamentals of reading musical notation that will teach the reader to read music in 4 hours.

Book details

List price: $18.99
Copyright year: 1956
Publisher: Touchstone
Publication date: 2/15/1971
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 172
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English



Preface


What This Book Will Do


How This Book Came to be Written


How to Use This Book



Notation of Rhythm





First Steps


Note Symbols


Combinations of Note Symbols


Additional Symbols


Rests


Combinations of Notes and Rests


TempoShort Table of Tempo Indications


Meter


Rhythm Patterns


Some Characteristic Rhythms in 2/4 Meter


Some Characteristic Rhythms in 3/4 Meter


Some Characteristic Rhythms in 4/4 Meter


Other Meters


Compound Meters


Exercises: Reading Rhythms



Notation of Pitch


Sections


Pitch of a Vibrating String


Early Notation Methods


The Staff


Clefs


Exercises: Identifying Notes


Leger Lines


Accidentals


The Piano Keyboard


Table of Visual Patterns to Aid in Identifying Notes at the Keyboard


Exercises: The Keyboard


The Key Signature



Combination of Rhythmic and Pitch Notations


Sections


"Au Clair de la Lune""America"


The Doxology ("Old Hundred")"


Jingle Bells"



Supplementary Symbols and Devices


Sections


Repetitions


Ornaments


Symbols for Dynamics


Symbols for Articulation, Style, etc.



Tonality


Sections



Scales and Key Signatures


Sections


ScalesThe Major Scale


Constructing Major Scales


Key Signatures, Major Scales


The Minor Scale


Key Signatures, Major and Minor Scales



Vocabulary of Some Important Foreign Terms Used in Music


Sections


Terms Used to Indicate TempoTerms Used to Indicate Change of Tempo


Terms Used to Indicate Volume of Sound


Terms Used to Indicate Change of Volume


Terms Used to Indicate Simultaneous Reduction of Tempo and Volume


Qualifying Terms Used to Indicate Mood, Degree, Intensity, or Style



The C-Clefs


Sections


The Alto Clef


The Tenor Clef


Hybrid Clefs


Comparison of Clefs


Names of Octaves


Index