Offer,Hindemith, P: Elementary Training for Musicians

Contents

• Preface
• Quarter-notes, half-notes, and whole-notes (and rests)
• High, medium, and low tones
• 2/4 and 4/4 meters
• G-clef, and tones f', g', a', b'
• Eighth-notes and sixteenth-notes
• Tones e' and c'
• 3/4 meter, dotted half-notes, ties
• Tones d' and c'; octave; ledger lines; one- and two-lined octaves
• Slurs; syllable division; up-beats; dynamic accents
• Dotted quarter- and eighth-notes (and rests)
• Small octave; major scale; # and natural; diatonic and chromatic half-tones; key signatures
• Time-signatures of simple meters having the denominators 1, 2, 8, and 16; indications for slow and moderate tempi; brevis and dotted whole-notes
• Three- and four-lined octaves; b
• Double-dotted notes (and rests); thirty-second- and sixty-fourth-notes; indications for fast tempi
• Bass clef; great octave; intervals; perfect fifth and fourth; inversions
• Metric accents; meter and rhythm; cundoctors' patterns for beating time; syncopation; compound meters
• Contra octrave and sub-contra octave; major and minor thirds and sixths; transposition
• Triplets and other divisions by factors not implied in the time-signatures
• Major and minor seconds and sevenths
• Indications for changing tempi
• Meters with signatures having the numerators 5, 7, etc. and corresponding patterns for beating time
• Alto clef; augmented and diminished intervals; prime or unson; x and bb; enharmonic transcription; circle of fifths, circle of fourths
• Indications of dynamics and expressions
• Musical Form
• Tenor clef; intervals exceeding the octave; doubly diminshed or augmented intervals; minor scale (all forms); Church Modes; relative major and minor; signatures of minor keys
• Abbreviations; rests longer than one measure; ornaments; marks of articulation; chromatic scale
• Preface to Part Two
• Dictations (incl. discussion of absolute pitch)
• Index