3rd Edition

Music Fundamentals A Balanced Approach

By Sumy Takesue Copyright 2018
530 Pages
by Routledge

530 Pages
by Routledge

530 Pages
by Routledge

Music Fundamentals: A Balanced Approach , Third Edition combines a textbook and integrated workbook with an interactive website for those who want to learn the basics of reading music. Intended for students with little or no prior knowledge of music theory, it offers a patient approach to understanding and mastering the building blocks of musical practice and structure. Musical examples range... Read more

Module 1 - Basics of Pitch

Module 2 - Basics of Rhythm

Module 3 - Basics of Rhythm: Extending Duration, Anacrusis, Rests

Module 4 - Accidentals

Module 5 - Rhythm: Simple Meter Expanded

Module 6 - Major Scale

Module 7 - Major Scale Key Signatures

Module 8 - Rhythm: Compound Meter

Module 9 - Minor Scale

Module 10 - Intervals

Module 11 - Traids

Module 12 - Rhythm: Compound Meter Expanded

Module 13 - Triads: Roman Numerals

Module 14 - Inversions of Triads

Module 15 - Seventh Chords

Module 16 - Form in Music

Appendix 1 - Musical Terms

Appendix 2 - Acoustics

Appendix 3 - C Clefs (Alto and Tenor)

Appendix 4 - Modes

Appendix 5 - Other Seventh Chords (Major, Minor, Half Diminished, Diminished)

Appendix 6 - Basic Guitar Chords

Biography

Sumy Takesue is an Instructor at Santa Monica College, teaching theory and class piano. She has taught at the University of Hawai’i (Hilo) and the University of Southern California.