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Cengage Advantage Books: A Creative Approach to Music Fundamentals
- Author: Duckworth, William
Cengage Advantage Books: A Creative Approach to Music Fundamentals
- Author: Duckworth, William
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Learn to write your own music with CENGAGE ADVANTAGE: A CREATIVE APPROACH TO MUSIC FUNDAMENTALS, First Edition. With clear explanations, extensive exercises, and a chapter on songwriting, learn key fundamentals of music and composition, then create your own music based on what you've learned. Unleash your creativity!
Contents
- INTRODUCTION.
- 1. The Basics of Music.
- 2. Rhythm I: Simple Meter. FOCUS ON SKILLS I.
- 3. Rhythm II: Compound Meter.
- 4. Pitch. FOCUS ON SKILLS II.
- 5. Major Scales.
- 6. Major Key Signatures.
- 7. Intervals. FOCUS ON SKILLS III.
- 8. Minor Key Signatures.
- 9. Minor Scales.
- 10. The Pentatonic and Blues Scales. FOCUS ON SKILLS IV.
- 11. Triads.
- 12. Triads in a Musical Context.
- 13. Chord Progressions.
- 14. Writing a Song.
- Appendix A: Graded Rhythms for Counting and Performing.
- Appendix B: Graded World Rhythms in Two and Three Parts.
- Appendix C: Syllables for Sight-Singing Scales and Modes.
- Appendix D: Graded Melodies for Sight-Singing and Playing.
- Appendix E: Chromatic Scale and Major-Scale Fingerings for Keyboard Instruments.
- Appendix F: The C Clef.
- Appendix G: Other Scales and Modes.
- Appendix H: Transposing the Modes.
- Appendix I: A Brief
- Introduction to Timbre.
- Appendix J: A Brief Discussion of Acoustics.
- Appendix K: Basic Guitar Chords.
