L. Dean Bye: You Can Teach Yourself About Music

Contents

• SECTION I: A GUIDE TO MUSIC FUNDAMENTALS
• Musical Notation and Pitch
• Duration of Notes and Rests (Also Meter)
• Key Signatures-Major and Minor Scales
• Form and Expression Marks
• Intervals and Two-Part Harmony
• Transposition
• Triads-Chords
• Chord Progressions
• Chord Building Chart
• Chromatic Fingering Chart (Guitar)
• SECTION II: A GUIDE TO MUSIC HISTORY
• The Pre-Renaissance Period (Before 1450)
• The Renaissance Period (1450 to 1600)
• Giovanni-Pierluigi da Palestrina (1524 to 1594)
• The Baroque Period (1600 to 1750)
• Some General Characteristics of Baroque Music
• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 to 1750)
• George Frederic Handel (1685 to 1759)
• The Classical Period (1750 to 1825)
• Some General Characteristics of Classical Music
• Franz Joseph Haydn (1732 to 1809)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 to 1791)
• Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770 to 1827)
• The Romantic Period (1825 to 1900)
• Some General Characteristics of Romantic Music
• Franz Schubert (1797 to 1828)
• Felix Mandelssohn (1809 to 1847)
• Frederic Chopin (1810 to 1849)
• Johann Strauss Jr (1825 to 1899)
• Franz Liszt (1811 to 1886)
• Johannes Brahms (1833 to 1897)
• Peter Ditch Tschaikovsky (1840 to 1893)
• Anton Dvorak (1841 to 1904)
• The Impressionist Period (Approx 1885 to 1910)
• Claude Debussy (1862 to 1918)
• The Contemporary Period (1900 to Present)
• Some General Characteristics of Contemporary Music
• George Gershwin (1898 to 1937)
• Aaron Copland (1900 to )
• Dmitri Shostakovich (1906 to 1975)
• Into the Next Centucy
• SECTION III: A MUSICAL DICTIONARY