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You Can Teach Yourself About Music

You Can Teach Yourself

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Alle Instrumente

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Book

Item no.:

828281

Scope:

136 pages

Publisher / Producer:

Mel Bay Publications

Producer No.:

MB94300

ISBN:

9780871662613

Description

A creative self-teaching text, which provides a thorough grounding in the fundamentals of music, this book is essential reading for beginning instrumentalists and vocalists providing a comprehensive musical dictionary, self- instructional theory lessons designed to motivate, and a wealth of historical information.

Content

SECTION I: A GUIDE TO MUSIC FUNDAMENTALS
Musical Notation and Pitch
Duration of Notes and Rests (Also Meter)
Key Signatures-Major and Minor Scales
Form and Expression Marks
Intervals and Two-Part Harmony
Transposition
Triads-Chords
Chord Progressions
Chord Building Chart
Chromatic Fingering Chart (Guitar)
SECTION II: A GUIDE TO MUSIC HISTORY
The Pre-Renaissance Period (Before 1450)
The Renaissance Period (1450 to 1600)
Giovanni-Pierluigi da Palestrina (1524 to 1594)
The Baroque Period (1600 to 1750)
Some General Characteristics of Baroque Music
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 to 1750)
George Frederic Handel (1685 to 1759)
The Classical Period (1750 to 1825)
Some General Characteristics of Classical Music
Franz Joseph Haydn (1732 to 1809)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 to 1791)
Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770 to 1827)
The Romantic Period (1825 to 1900)
Some General Characteristics of Romantic Music
Franz Schubert (1797 to 1828)
Felix Mandelssohn (1809 to 1847)
Frederic Chopin (1810 to 1849)
Johann Strauss Jr (1825 to 1899)
Franz Liszt (1811 to 1886)
Johannes Brahms (1833 to 1897)
Peter Ditch Tschaikovsky (1840 to 1893)
Anton Dvorak (1841 to 1904)
The Impressionist Period (Approx 1885 to 1910)
Claude Debussy (1862 to 1918)
The Contemporary Period (1900 to Present)
Some General Characteristics of Contemporary Music
George Gershwin (1898 to 1937)
Aaron Copland (1900 to )
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906 to 1975)
Into the Next Centucy
SECTION III: A MUSICAL DICTIONARY

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