Understanding Basic Music Theory

Understanding Basic Music Theory

Author: Catherine Schmidt-Jones

Publisher:

Published: 2018-01-28

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 9781680921540

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The main purpose of the book is to explore basic music theory so thoroughly that the interested student will then be able to easily pick up whatever further theory is wanted. Music history and the physics of sound are included to the extent that they shed light on music theory. The main premise of this course is that a better understanding of where the basics come from will lead to better and faster comprehension of more complex ideas.It also helps to remember, however, that music theory is a bit like grammar. Catherine Schmidt-Hones is a music teacher from Champaign, Illinois and she has been a pioneer in open education since 2004. She is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Illinois in the Open Online Education program with a focus in Curriculum and Instruction.


Music and Discourse

Music and Discourse

Author: Jean-Jacques Nattiez

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 1990-11-21

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 9780691027142

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Series statement on p. [4] of cover, paperback edition.


A Note in Music

A Note in Music

Author: Rosamond Lehmann

Publisher: Open Road Media

Published: 2015-04-28

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 1504003055

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A seductive new stranger becomes the symbol of everything two married women secretly long for in this richly imagined novel by one of the most distinguished writers of the twentieth century Thirty-four-year-old Grace Fairfax lives a dull, conventional existence with her dull, conventional husband, Tom, in a dreary manufacturing town in the North of England. A year ago, when a fortune-teller told her that her life lacked will and purpose, she wasn’t surprised. Every day the same predictable routine—it’s a wonder she doesn’t go mad. Then Hugh Miller and his sister, Clare, descend on the town. Clare is young and beautiful. Hugh seems to possess everything lacking in Grace’s life: passion, vitality, and most important, the freedom to do as he pleases. Grace’s best friend, Norah MacKay, isn’t immune to the handsome stranger’s charms, either. Married to Gerald, a curmudgeonly university professor, the mother of two has her own fantasies of desire and liberation. But Hugh isn’t the man Grace and Norah imagine him to be. In this story of two strangers who cast an otherworldly enchantment on an entire town and its inhabitants, A Note in Music presents an intensely moving portrait of marriage—its disappointments, joys, jealousies, fears, and loneliness, and the truths that remain unspoken.


Music Theory 101

Music Theory 101

Author: Brian Boone

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2017-08-08

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1507203667

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Covers everything novice musicians and lifelong learners need to know. Full of music trivia, music history, comprehensive instruction and visual aids, music symbols, and chords throughout. This is a crash course in music theory that even professionals will enjoy.


None So Pretty

None So Pretty

Author: Margaret Irwin

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2012-11-15

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 1448210259

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None So Pretty describes, with a sensibility and conviction unusual in historical fiction, the life of a young girl brought up in a large, aristocratic, but impecunious family, and married off at an early age to a neighbouring squire who nightly drinks himself under the table. It is not long before the young wife discovers that her sottish husband keeps a mistress at his lodge gates, and that he does not propose to consummate his marriage. Relief from a life of intolerable loneliness comes in the form of a young cavalier who stumbles into her bedroom one night after a hearty carouse downstairs, and the acquaintance thus started swiftly ripens into a deeper affection. To disclose the final sequence of events in this curious drama would be to spoil the story for a prospective reader; one must be content to conclude that by commending Miss Irwin's fascinatingly life-like and original characters, and her gift for creating vivid, unforgettable mental pictures.


An Individual Note

An Individual Note

Author: Daphne Oram

Publisher:

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781910221112

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Daphne Oram (1925-2003) was one of the central figures in the development of British experimental electronic music. Having declined a place at the Royal College of Music to become a music balancer at the BBC, she went on to become the co-founder and first director of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. In 1972, she authored her only book, 'An Individual


The Twelve-Note Music of Anton Webern

The Twelve-Note Music of Anton Webern

Author: Kathryn Bailey

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 9780521547963

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This important new study reassesses the position of Anton Webern in twentieth-century music. The twelve-note method of composition adopted by Anton Webern had profound consequences for composers of the next generation such as Stockhausen and Boulez, who saw Webern's music as revolutionary. In her detailed analyses, however, Professor Bailey demonstrates a fundamentally traditional aspect to Webern's creativity, when describing his own music. Professor Bailey analyses all Webern's twelve-note works (from Op. 17 to Op. 31) i.e. the instrumental and vocal music written between 1924 and 1943. These analyses draw on sketch material recently made available at the Paul Sacher Foundation in Basel and include transcriptions of little-known drafts and sketches. A most valuable aspect of the book is the inclusion in appendices of such materials as a complete explanation of the row content of each work, the correct prime form of each of the rows from Op. 20 onwards, with a matrix constructed for each, and exhaustive row analyses.


Musical Note Names Coloring Book for Kids Ages 4-8

Musical Note Names Coloring Book for Kids Ages 4-8

Author: Chef Home Cookd

Publisher:

Published: 2021-01-05

Total Pages: 102

ISBN-13:

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Learn how to read musical notes in treble clef by coloring notes and piano keys with the appropriate color (see the reference in the back cover). There are 97 pages with huge musical staff and piano keyboard layout on each page. Great for kids and educational purpose. Learn musical notation from scratch at 15 or 20 can be a not easy task. Start at 4 or 6 can be better, and better if you start as a game. Coloring for kids is an intuitive task, so we have combined colors and musical notes and try to create a new coloring game experience to learn musical staff without efforts.


Letters of Note: Music

Letters of Note: Music

Author:

Publisher: Canongate Books

Published: 2020-03-05

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 1786895587

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In Letters of Note: Music, Shaun Usher brings together a riveting collection of letters by and about some of the musicians and music that enrich our lives. It is a wonderfully wide-ranging and illuminating book that will delight music lovers of all stripes. Includes letters by: Ludgwig van Beethoven, Nick Cave, Helen Keller, Keith Richards, Yo-Yo Ma, Tom Waits, Erik Satie, Angélique Kidjo, Leonard Cohen John Coltrane, Kim Gordon & many more


Take Note

Take Note

Author: Robin Wallace

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780195314335

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This innovative music appreciation text is designed to help students become active and attentive listeners through in-depth examination of a recurring repertory of core musical works. By exploring each element of music through the lens of these core works - which were carefully selected torepresent a variety of styles and genres - students deepen their understanding of how music works and develop strong listening skills that will enhance their enjoyment of music.