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Understand music theory / Margaret Richer.

by Richer, Margaret.

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John Murray Learning, 2015.

Music theory -- Self-instruction.

Music theory -- Textbooks.

Music -- Instruction and study.

Teach yourself books.

9781473614871 (pbk.)

xvi, 173 p. : ill., music ; 25 cm.

Includes index.

"Glossary": pages 163-169.

"Audio online" --Cover.

Introducing rhythm. Note values ; Time signatures ; Time signature of 2/4 ; Rests ; Tempo -- Pitch. The keyboard and musical alphabet ; The staff ; Beginning to read notes in treble and bass clef -- Melody. Combining rhythm and pitch ; Analysing melodies ; Creating rhythms ; Phrases ; What makes a good melody? -- More about pitch. The octave ; Completing the notes on the staff ; Notation of stems ; Leger lines ; Other clefs -- More about rhythm. 3/4 time ; Dotted notes ; Tied notes ; Quavers (eighth notes) ; Semiquavers (sixteenth notes) ; Demi-semiquavers (thirty-second notes) ; Triplets ; Other less commonly used time signatures ; Incomplete bars ; Syncopation -- Sharps and flats. Sharps and flats on the keyboard ; Notation for sharps and flats ; Accidentals ; Double sharps and double flats -- Intervals. Semitones and whole tones ; Other intervals ; Minor, diminished and augmented intervals ; Inverted intervals ; Compound intervals -- More about intervals. Sight reading ; Transposing --

Major scales and key signatures. Different types of scale ; Major scale construction ; Key signatures ; The circle of fifths ; Writing key signatures -- Minor scales and key signatures. Minor scale construction ; Natural, harmonic and melodic forms ; Key signatures ; Parallel and relative minor key signatures ; The blues scale -- Compound time signatures. Counting 6/8 ; Other compound time signatures ; Comparing simple and compound time -- Introducing chords. Major and minor triads ; Inversions ; Augmented and diminished triads ; Chord symbols ; Added note chords ; Notation of chords -- Harmony. Chord names and functions ; Cadences ; Chorale style ; Figured bass ; Counterpoint ; Modulation -- Adding accompaniment to a melody. Finding the most suitable chords ; Transposing melody and accompaniment ; Writing an accompaniment -- Musical form. Repetition ; Introduction and coda ; Form represented by letters ; Sonata or first movement form ; Composite form ; Words and music -- Tone colour and interpretation. Different tone colours ; Arrangement and orchestration ; The conductor ; Signs used to interpret music -- Ornaments and non-harmonic notes. Ornaments ; Non-harmonic notes -- Modern music theory. Chords ; Atonality ; Other scales ; Neoclassical ideas ; Other innovations ; The future.

"A practical overview of the mechanics of music"--Cover.

Suitable for complete beginners.

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