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Music Kit

Contents

  • Workbook
  • CHAPTER ONE
    • Notation
    • The Notation of Pitch
    • Music Handwriting
    • Note Names
    • The Octave
    • Note Names on the Staff
    • The Treble Cleff
    • Notes in the Treble Cleff
    • The Bass Clef
    • Notes in the Bass Clef
    • Ledger Lines
    • Writing Ledger Lines
    • The Grand Staff
    • Middle C
    • Learning Note Names
    • Terms, Symbols, and Concepts
    • Suggested Activities
  • CHAPTER TWO
    • The Piano Keyboard
    • Other Keyboards
    • The Design of the Keyboard
    • The White Keys
    • The Black Keys
    • Enharmonic Spelling
    • Notating the White Keys
    • Notating the Black Keys
    • Notes in the Treble Cleff
    • Terms, Symbols, and Concepts
    • Suggested Activities
  • CHAPTER THREE
    • Half Steps and Whole Steps
    • Half Steps
    • Whole Steps
    • Semitone and Whole Tone
    • Semitone Types
    • Accidentals
    • Accidentals in a Measure
    • Use of a Natural
    • Precautionary Accidentals
    • Visualizing a Keyboard
    • Terms, Symbols, and Concepts
    • Suggested Activities
  • CHAPTER FOUR
    • Scales
    • Diatonic Scales
    • The Major Scales
    • Building a Major Scale on D
    • Adding Accidentals to Form a Major Scale
    • The Importance of Correct Spelling
    • Major-Scale Spellings
    • "In the Key of"
    • Tonality
    • Melody
    • Intervals
    • Melodic and Harmonic Intervals
    • Melody and Intervals
    • Inversion
    • Terms, Symbols, and Concepts
    • Suggested Activities
  • CHAPTER FIVE
    • Key Signatures
    • Adding a Key Signature
    • Organization of Major Key Signatures
    • The Circle of 5ths
    • Transposition
    • Transposing Accidentals
    • Chromatic and Diatonic
    • Melodic Organization
    • Phrase and Form
    • Words and Music
    • The Cadence
    • Melodic Shape
    • Composing a Melody
    • Singing Major-Scale Melodies
    • Terms, Symbols, and Concepts
    • Suggested Activities
    • Review Exercises
  • CHAPTER SIX
    • Intervals
    • Staff Steps and Half Steps
    • Interval Quality
    • Intervals within the Major Scale
    • Altering Major-Scale Intervals
    • Limitations of the Major-Scale Method
    • The Natural Semitones
    • The Natural Intervals
    • Adding Accidentals
    • Quality of Inverted Intervals
    • Other Applications of Diminished and Augmented
    • Consonance and Dissonance
    • Terms, Symbols, and Concepts
    • Suggested Activities
    • Review Exercises
  • CHAPTER SEVEN
    • The Minor Scale
    • Minor-Scale Key Signatures
    • Relative Minor/Relative Major
    • Finding the Relative Minor Scale
    • Finding the Relative Major Scale
    • Minor Key Signatures/Circle of 5ths
    • Parallel Minor/Parallel Major
    • The Relationship of Parallel Major to Minor
    • Singing the Natural Minor Scale
    • Other Versions of the Minor Scale
    • The Harmonic Minor Scale
    • The Augmented 2nd
    • The Melodic Minor Scale
    • Minor Scales and Musical Usage
    • Terms, Symbols, and Concepts
    • Suggested Activities
    • Review Exercises
  • CHAPTER EIGHT
    • Harmony and Chords
    • Triads
    • Quality of Triads
    • Triads and Scales
    • Working with Triads
    • Learning the Triads
    • Triads on B and Bf
    • Voicing
    • Voicing for Four-Part Chorus
    • Chord Inversions
    • Harmonic Background of a Melody
    • Harmonic Progression
    • Composing a Chord Melody
    • Nonchord Tones
    • Neighbor Tones
    • Notating Voices: Various Methods
    • Harmony with 3rds and 6ths
    • Canons and Rounds
    • Terms, Symbols, and Concepts
    • Suggested Activities
    • Review Exercises
  • CHAPTER NINE
    • Complex Triad Spellings
    • Adding Accidental to White-key Triads
    • Diminished and Augmented Triads
    • Altering Triads
    • The Harmonic System
    • Transposing Chords
    • Motive
    • Rhythmic Identity of a Motive
    • Pitch Identity of the Motive
    • Sequence
    • Inversion
    • Motivic Development and Its Flexibility
    • Terms, Symbols, and Concepts
    • Suggested Activities
    • Review Exercises
  • CHAPTER TEN
    • 7th Chords
    • The Dominant 7th Chord
    • Complex Spelling of 7th Chords
    • Minor-Scale Triads: Position in Key
    • V or V7 in a Minor Key
    • The Minor 7th Chord
    • The Major 7th Chord
    • Diminished and Half-Diminished 7th Chords
    • Terms, Symbols, and Concepts
    • Suggested Activities
    • Review Exercises
  • CHAPTER ELEVEN
    • Accompaniments to Melodies
    • Keyboard Accompaniments
    • Voice Leading
    • Common Tone
    • Voicing the V7
    • Using V Instead of V7
    • Harmonizing with the vi Chord
    • Harmonizing with the ii Chord
    • Tonality and the V or V7
    • Modulation
    • Modern Accompaniments: Parallelism
    • Voice Leading in Popular Styles
    • Terms, Symbols, and Concepts
    • Suggested Activities
    • Review Exercises
  • CHAPTER TWELVE
    • Modes
    • Scale and Mode Mixture
    • Pentatonic Scale
    • The Blues Scale
    • Blues Harmony and Blues Form
    • Dissonance within the Blues Scale
    • Blues and Mode Mixture
    • Blues and Jazz
    • Form: Phrase Design
    • The Period
    • Two Types of Cadences
    • Melodic Aspects of Cadential Design
    • Double Period
    • The Design of Phrase Forms
    • Labeling Phrases
    • Parallel and Contrasting Periods
    • The Three-Phrase Period
    • Flexibility of Form Designations
    • A Summary of Melodic Design
    • Composing Melodies
    • Terms, Symbols, and Concepts
    • Suggested Activities
    • Review Exercises
  • SUMMARY EXERCISES
  • SUPPLEMENTARY GUIDES
  • APPENDICES
    • Checklist of Notation Symbols
    • Major and Minor Scales and Key Signatures
    • Triads and Chords
    • Progressions for Improvisation and Composition
    • The Guitar Fretboard and Guitar Chords
    • Harmonic Series
    • Glossary of Terms
    • Answer to In-Chapter Exercises
  • Rhythm Reader
  • CHAPTER ONE
    • Rhythm, Beat, and Tempo
    • The Quarter Note and the Eighth Note
    • Beaming Eighth Notes
    • Speaking Rhythms
    • Double Bar
    • Repeat Signs
    • Fermata Sign
    • Notes Control Space
    • Terms, Symbols, and Concepts
  • CHAPTER TWO
    • Rests
    • Rests Control Space
    • Meter and Bar Lines
    • Strong and Weak Beats
    • Time Signatures
    • Counting Beats
    • Metronome and Tempo
    • Division of the Basic Pulse
    • Playing and Singing
    • Terms, Symbols, and Concepts
  • CHAPTER THREE
    • Eighth Rest
    • Note Values
    • Speaking the Eighth Rest
    • 1st and 2nd Endings
    • Other Types of Repeats
    • Terms, Symbols, and Concepts
  • CHAPTER FOUR
    • Notes Longer Than the Quarter Note
    • Rests Longer Than the Quarter Rest
    • Anacrusis
    • Counting the Anacrusis
    • Creating a Drum Pattern
    • Conducting
    • Terms, Symbols, and Concepts
  • CHAPTER FIVE
    • Note System
    • Dividing the Whole Note
    • Beams
    • Combinations of Notes with Beams
    • Relationship of Note Values
    • The Tie
    • Ties and Slurs
    • The Dotted Note
    • Writing Rests
    • Terms, Symbols, and Concepts
  • CHAPTER SIX
    • Working with Ties and Dotted Notes
    • Division of the Basic Pulse
    • Coordinating Both Hands
    • Marking the Beat
    • Terms, Symbols, and Concepts
  • CHAPTER SEVEN
    • Subdivision of the Quarter Note into Sixteenth Notes
    • Speaking Sixteenth Notes in Meter
    • Aligning Two or More Parts
    • Terms, Symbols, and Concepts
  • CHAPTER EIGHT
    • Compound Meter
    • Counting Compound Meters
    • Speaking Compound Meter
    • Terms, Symbols, and Concepts
  • CHAPTER NINE
    • Triplets
    • Triplets and Eighth Notes
    • Speaking Triplets
    • The Triplet Rest
    • The Triplet and the Basic Pulse
    • Counting Eighths, Triplets, and Sixteenths
    • Terms, Symbols, and Concepts
  • CHAPTER TEN
    • Different Values of the Basic Pulse
    • c and C
    • Double Whole Note
    • Triplets with Different Note Values
    • Dotted Notes with Different Notes Value
    • Terms, Symbols, and Concepts
  • CHAPTER ELEVEN
    • Syncopation
    • Syncopated and Nonsyncopated Rhythms
    • Terms, Symbols, and Concepts
  • CHAPTER TWELVE
    • Mixed Meter
    • Music Without Meter
    • Marking the Basic Pulse
    • Complex Meters o Terms, Symbols, and Concepts
  • APPENDICES
    • Table of Note and Rest Values
    • Rythmn Spacers
  • Scorebook
  • New pieces are indicated in bold text
  • Pieces recorded on the audio cd are italicized
  • Melodies
  • 1. Come, Let Us Tune, John Hatton, Simple major
  • 2. Chorale Melody from Christmas, Oratorio J.S. Bach, Simple major
  • 3. Das walt’ Gott Vater und Gott Sohn, German hymn tune, Simple major
  • 4. Fray Diego, Spanish, Simple major
  • 5. Game Song, Hungarian, Simple major
  • 6. Den Vater dort oben, Chorale tune, Simple major
  • 7. Oliver and the Maiden, Icelandic, Simple major
  • 8. Just As I Am, William Bradbury, Simple major
  • 9. "Ode to Joy" theme from Symphony No. 9, Ludwig van Beethoven, Simple major
  • 10. Brocham Lom, Gaelic, Simple major
  • 11. Lullaby, Plains Apache, Simple major
  • 12. O du schöner Rosengarten, German, Simple major
  • 13. Philis, plus avare que tendre, French, Simple major
  • 14. Music in the, Air American, Simple major
  • 15. Repentance, George Coles, Simple major
  • 16. Robin Adair, Traditional, Simple major
  • 17. Galiarda, William Byrd, Simple major
  • 18. Die Gedanken sind frei, German, Simple major
  • 19. Drei Reiter um Tor, German, Simple major
  • 20. Lullaby, Johannes Brahms, Simple major
  • 21. eNorth River, William Billings, Natural minor
  • 22. The Trees They Do Grow High, American, Natural minor
  • 23. Dream Song, Scandinavian, Natural minor
  • 24. The Hunter, Greek, Natural minor
  • 25. In dem Weiten stand ein Haus, German, Natural minor
  • 26. Carraig Aonair, Gaelic, Natural minor
  • 27. Que ne suis-je la fougère, French, Harmonic minor
  • 28. Minuet, Robert Visée, Harmonic minor
  • 29. The Knife Sharpener, Dutch, Harmonic minor
  • 30. Puer natus in Bethlehem, J. S. Bach, Melodic minor
  • 31. Chorale Melody from Wedding Cantata, J. S. Bach, Melodic minor
  • 32. Melody, Finnish, Melodic minor
  • 33. Feinsliebchen, German, Melodic minor
  • 34. Jeune fillette, French, Melodic minor
  • 35. Tyler Street, American, Melodic minor
  • 36. Theme from Sonata Duodecima, Preludio, Arcangelo Corelli, Melodic minor
  • 37. Song of the Crow, Chinese, Pentatonic
  • 38. Worksong, Chinese, Pentatonic
  • 39. Cherry Blooms, Japanese, Pentatonic
  • 40. Cradle Song, Japanese, Pentatonic
  • 41. O’er the Burn, Bessie, English, Lydian
  • 42. Andrew Bardon, American, Mixolydian
  • 43. Peter’s Lament, American, Dorian
  • 44. Hymn, Armenian East, European
  • MELODIES WITH WORDS
  • 45. I Know Where I'm Going, Traditiona,l Major
  • 46. The Water is Wide, Traditional, Major
  • 47. Barbrie Allen, Traditional, English Major
  • 48. Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes, Traditional, English Major
  • 49. Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms, Traditional, Major
  • 50. Amazing Grace, Traditional, Major
  • 51. En el portal de Belén, Spanish, Natural minor
  • 52. Dear Willie, Traditional, Natural minor
  • 53. La paloma, Spanish, Harmonic minor
  • 54. The Oak and the Ash, Traditional English, Melodic mino
  • 56. Greensleeves, Traditional, Mixed mode
  • ROUNDS, CANONS, AND PART SONGS
  • 57. Dona nobis pacem, Traditional, Major
  • 58. Oh How Lovely Is the Evening, Traditional, Major
  • 59. Hey, Ho, Nobody at Home, Traditional, Natural minor
  • 60. The Welcome Song, Traditional, Natural minor
  • 62. The Blue Note, Canon Contemporary, Major/Blues/Chromatic
  • 63. Ringing of the Bells, Two-part, Melodic minor
  • 64. Planting Song, Two-part, Major, Minor
  • 65. Willie, Take Your Little Drum, Two-part, Melodic minor
  • 66. Christmas Has Come, Two-part, Mixed Modes / Melodic Modes
  • 67. All the Stars, Three-part, Major
  • 68. Silent Night, Four-part, Minor
  • 69. Election, William Billings, Minor
  • CHORALES
  • 70. Komm, Gott Schöpfer, J. S. Bach, Major
  • 71. Chorale from Cantata No. 43, J. S. Bach, Major
  • 72. Psalm 75, Heinrich Schütz, Mixed mode
  • 73. Prologue from Prophetiae sibyllarum, Orlando di Lasso, Chromatic/Mixed Modes
  • 74. Remember, O Thou Man, Thomas Ravenscroft, Mixed mode
  • FROM THE CLASSICAL TRADITION
  • 75. Nancie, Thomas Morley
  • 76. Theme from Don Giovanni, W. A. Mozart
  • 77. Sarabanda from Concerto Grosso, Op. 6, No. 11, Arcangelo Corelli
  • 78. Theme from Piano Sonata No. 19, Ludwig van Beethoven
  • 79. Theme from Symphony No. 6, Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky
  • 80. Minuet, W. A. Mozart
  • 81. Prelude, Frédéric Chopin
  • 82. Sonata in E major, Domenico Scarlatti
  • POPULAR AND JAZZ TUNES
  • 83. Blues for the Rhodes, Tom Carpenter
  • 84. Pocket Full of Blues, Don Latarski
  • 85. The Final Blues, Don Latarski

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