Beginning Theory for Adults
The Grown-Up Approach to Music Theory
By Nathaniel Gunod
Book & CD
Item: 00-40269
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For students of piano or guitar, this fun and friendly step-by-step introduction to music theory is written with the adult learner in mind. It is both a great self-teaching book and a great method for use with an instructor. Beginning Theory for Adults covers scales, intervals, chords, and chord inversions; major and minor diatonic harmony; keys and the circle of 5ths; plus how to read music. In addition, detailed diagrams help simplify the learning process. An ear training CD and answer key is included.
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Contents
| Title | |
| Introduction | |
| CHAPTER ONE | |
| Lesson 1: What Is Music? | |
| Pitch | |
| Time | |
| Lesson 2: The Musical Alphabet and Reading Pitch (Treble) | |
| Notes | |
| The Musical Alphabet | |
| Lesson 3: Reading Pitch (Bass) | |
| Lesson 4: The Grand Staff | |
| CHAPTER TWO | |
| Lesson 1: Note Values | |
| Lesson 2: Measures and Time Signatures | |
| Lesson 3: Rests (Whole/Half/Quarter) | |
| Lesson 4: Ties and Slurs | |
| Ties | |
| Slurs | |
| CHAPTER THREE | |
| Lesson 1: Ledger Lines | |
| Lesson 2: Close and Far | |
| Lesson 3: Whole Steps and Half Steps | |
| Whole Steps | |
| Half Steps | |
| Lesson 4: The Musical Alphabet and Whole and Half Steps | |
| Lesson 5: Accidentals | |
| The Flat | |
| The Sharp | |
| The Natural | |
| Lesson 6: Accidentals and Measures | |
| CHAPTER FOUR | |
| Lesson 1: Octaves and the Chromatic Scale | |
| Lesson 2: Enharmonic Equivalents and the Chromatic Scale | |
| Lesson 3: The Major Scale | |
| Lesson 4: Tetrachords | |
| CHAPTER FIVE | |
| Lesson 1: Eighth Notes and Rests | |
| Lesson 2: Counting Eighth Notes and Rests | |
| Lesson 3: Dotted Half Notes | |
| Lesson 4: Time | |
| Lesson 5: Meter | |
| CHAPTER SIX | |
| Lesson 1: Keys and Key Signatures---Sharp Keys | |
| Keys | |
| Key Signatures | |
| Lesson 2: Keys and Key Signatures---Flat Keys | |
| Lesson 3: All of the Sharp and Flat Keys | |
| CHAPTER SEVEN | |
| Lesson 1: Introducing Intervals | |
| Scale Degrees and Interval Numbers in the Major Scale | |
| Lesson 2: Identifying the Size of an Interval within the Major Scale | |
| Lesson 3: Melodic vs. Harmonic Intervals | |
| Lesson 4: Interval Qualities---Major and Perfect | |
| Lesson 5: Major and Perfect Intervals in Half Steps | |
| Lesson 6: Major and Perfect Intervals Associative Repertoire | |
| Lesson 7: Harmonic Major and Perfect Intervals---Consonance and Dissonance | |
| Lesson 8: The Circle of 5ths | |
| Lesson 9: Minor Intervals | |
| Lesson 10: Double Sharps and Double Flats | |
| Lesson 11: Augmented and Diminished Intervals | |
| Lesson 12: Learning to Identify Minor, Diminished and Augmented Intervals | |
| Lesson 13: Minor, Diminished and Augmented Melodic Intervals | |
| Associative Repertoire | |
| Lesson 14: Minor, Diminished and Augmented Harmonic Intervals | |
| CHAPTER EIGHT | |
| Lesson 1: Dotted Quarter Notes and Rests | |
| Lesson 2: Major Triads | |
| Lesson 3: Minor Triads | |
| Lesson 4: Diminished Triads | |
| Lesson 5: Augmented Triads | |
| Lesson 6: Diatonic Harmony | |
| Diatonic Harmonies of the Major Scale | |
| The Primary Chords | |
| Roman Numerals | |
| Lesson 7: Basics of Chord Function | |
| The Primary Chords | |
| Tonic | |
| Dominant | |
| Subdominant | |
| Lesson 8: The Three Chord Categories | |
| CHAPTER NINE | |
| Lesson 1: The Relative Minor | |
| Lesson 2: The Natural, Harmonic and Melodic Minor Scales | |
| Natural Minor | |
| Harmonic Minor | |
| Melodic Minor | |
| Lesson 3: Diatonic Minor Harmony | |
| Lesson 4: Circle of 5ths and Minor Keys | |
| CHAPTER TEN | |
| Lesson 1: Sixteenth Notes and Rests | |
| Lesson 2: Counting Sixteenth Notes and Rests | |
| Lesson 3: Interval Inversion | |
| Lesson 4: Close and Open Position Triads | |
| Lesson 5: Triad Inversion---1st Inversion | |
| Lesson 6: Triad Inversion---2nd Inversion | |
| Triads in C Major, 2nd Inversion, Close Position | |
| Lesson 7: The Sounds of Inversions | |
| Analyzing Triads in Inversions and Open Positions | |
| CHAPTER ELEVEN | |
| Lesson 1: Eighth-Note Triplets | |
| Lesson 2: Dotted Eighth Notes | |
| Lesson 3: The V7 Chord | |
| Lesson 4: Inverting the V7 Chord | |
| Lesson 5: The Behavior of a Dominant 7th Chord | |
| Answer Key |
Additional Information
| Series: | For Adults |
| Author: | Nathaniel Gunod |
| Format: | Book & CD |
| Page Count: | 96 |
| Item Number: | 00-40269 |
| ISBN 10: | 0-7390-9306-1 |
| ISBN 13: | 978-0-7390-9306-1 |
| UPC: | 038081448978 |
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