ELEMENTARY MUSIC THEORY

For Beginners and Advanced

Jeromy Bessler and Norbert Opgenoorth

The most important basics of music theory explained in an easily understandable way. A few of the topics include: how to read music notation, beat and rhythm, intervals, scales, and how the most commonly used instruments create sound. An appendix with index and charts makes it easy to find specific subjects and gives practical hints for further studies. If you always wanted to deepen your understanding of music theory, but somehow never quite got around to it, this is the book to read.

Beginning level.

Contents

1. Introduction
2. 1. Notation
3. Notes
4. Stave/Staff Lines/Leger Lines
5. Brace
6. Natural Notes
7. Accidentals
8. Half-step and Whole-step
9. # and
10. Raising a note by a half-step
11. Lowering a note by a half-step
12. Natural sign
13. Double accidentals ( and )
14. 2. Note Values and Meter
15. Notes and Rests
16. Special Rest Symbols
17. Fermata
18. Dotted Notes and Rest Values
19. Tie
20. Triplet
21. Beat/Meter
22. 4/4 Meter
23. 3/4 Meter
24. 6/8 Meter
25. Alla Breve Meter
26. Upbeat
27. Shuffle
28. System of Meters
29. The Most Important Repeat Signs
30. 3 Expression Marks
31. Dynamics
32. Articulation
33. Phrasing
34. Tempo
35. Metronome
36. Change of Tempo
37. 4 Intervals and Scales
38. Intervals
39. 1. Intervals with one basic form
40. 2. Intervals with two basic forms
41. 3. Diminished and Augmented Intervals
42. Tritone
43. Formation of Intervals
44. Forming Lower Intervals
45. Scales
46. Major Scales
47. Leading Tone/Note
48. Scales and Key Signatures
49. Natural Minor Scale
50. Relative Keys
51. Harmonic Minor Scale
52. Melodic Minor Scale
53. Gypsy Minor Scale
54. Blue Notes and Blues Scale
55. Modes of the Major Scales (Ecclesiastical Modes)
56. Other Scales
57. 1 Pentatonic Scale
58. 2 Chromatic Scale
59. 3 Whole-step scale
60. 4 Whole-step/Half-step Scale
61. 5 Half-step/Whole-step Scale
62. Circle of Fifths
63. Just and Tempered Tuning
64. 5 Chords
65. Chords and Triads
66. Major Triad
67. Minor Triad
68. Diminished and Augmented Chords
69. Tetrad
70. Seventh Chord
71. Dissonant Chords
72. Other Chords
73. Chords with added Ninth
74. Chords with added Sixth
75. The Sus4 Chord
76. Inversions
77. Inversions of Tetrads
78. Chord Positions and Voicings
79. Diatonic Chords
80. Cadence
81. Chord Symbols
82. List of Chord Symbols
83. Chord Synonyms
84. List of Chords
85. 6 Musical Instruments
86. Instrumental Groups
87. Transposing Instruments
88. Chordophones
89. Classical String Instruments
90. Plucked Instruments
91. Guitar
92. Classical Guitar
93. Tablature for Guitar
94. Rhythmic Notation
95. Bass Guitar
96. Harp (Pedal Harp)
97. Other Plucked Instruments
98. Mandolin
99. Lute
100. Zither
101. Grand Piano, Piano (Forte)
102. Harpsichord
103. Aerophones (Wind Instruments)
104. Recorder
105. Flute
106. Oboe
107. Cor Anglais
108. Bassoon
109. Clarinet
110. Saxophone
111. Horn (French Horn)
112. Trombone
113. Tuba
114. Trumpet
115. Percussion Instruments
116. Timpani
117. Percussion Instruments
118. Other Percussion Instruments
119. Percussion Notation
120. Electrophones
121. Organ
122. Voices
123. Range of Voices
124. Appendix
125. Clefs
126. The most important values of notes and rests
127. Pitch Equivalents
128. The most important time signatures
129. Major scales
130. Minor scales
131. Italian Tempo Marks
132. Italian Expression Marks
133. Italian Dynamic Marks
134. Basic Guitar Chords
135. Index

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