Neil Sissons: Read Music From Scratch

Contents

• 01. A guided tour of written music
• 02. High and low
• 03. The note A on different instruments
• 04. Long and short
• 05. Bars and beats
• 06. Writing rhythms down
• 07. Starting to read pitch and rhythm together
• 08. Rhythm versus beat
• 09. Different music, different beat
• 10. More about time signatures
• 11. Sounds and silence
• 12. The instruments of the orchestra
• 13. The sections of the orchestra
• 14. New notes
• 15. Higher and higher
• 16. Reading the Bass Clef
• 17. Moving between treble and bass clefs
• 18. Shorter notes
• 19. Putting it all together
• 20. Quarter note beats
• 21. Musical sentances
• 22. Musical punctuation
• 23. Tones and semitones
• 24. Accidentals
• 25. Reading accidentals in music
• 26. History of music at a glance
• 28. Scales and keys
• 29. Some new keys
• 30. Key signatures
• 31. Fast and slow
• 31. Minor scales
• 32. Different types of repeat signs
• 33. Intervals
• 34. Compound time
• 35. Reading music with words
• 36. Scales
• 37. Simple chords
• 38. Musical form
• 39. Reading different types of music (Voice & Organ)
• 40. Reading different types of music (String Quartet)
• 41. Reading different types of music (Orchestral score)
• 42. Reading different types of music (Vocal score)
• 43. Reading different types of music (Modern scores)
• 44. Transposing instruments
• 45. Ornaments
• 46. Musical shorthand
• 47. More notes and rests
• 48. Putting it all together (Hungarian Rhapsody
• Liszt)
• 49. Putting it all together (Sonata for Cello & Harpsichord
• JS Bach)
• 50. Putting it all together (Violin Concerto 2nd Movt
• Brahms)
• 51. Italian terms
• 52. Complete major and minor scales
• 53. Chord symbols
• 54. Answers
• 55. Reminders