Beginning Theory for Adults - The Grown Up Approach to Music Theory

SKU

00-40269

Composer

Gunod, Nathaniel

Voicing

Piano

Manufacturer

ALFRED

Barcode

038081448978

ISBN 10

0739093061

ISBN 13

9780739093061

• 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

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