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      ISBN 978-0-393-13811-5

Jane Piper Clendinning (Author), Elizabeth West Marvin (Author)

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The Musician's Guide to Fundamentals

Overview | Features | Contents | Formats | For Instructors | For Students
 

    Chapter 1   -   Pitch Notation and the Grand Staff

    • Musical Contour
    • Introduction to Pitch Notation: Letter Names
    • The Piano Keyboard: Naming White Keys
    • Staff Notation
    • Treble and Bass Clefs
    • Naming Pitches with Octave Numbers
    • Ledger Lines
    • The Grand Staff
    • Writing Music in a Score

    Chapter 2   -   Accidentals and Half and Whole Steps

    • Sharps, Flats, and Naturals
    • Double Sharps and Flats
    • Writing Pitches with Accidentals
    • Half Steps and Whole Steps
    • Hearing Half and Whole Steps

    Chapter 3   -   Simple Meters

    • Duple, Triple, and Quadruple Meters
    • Tempo Markings and Conducting Patterns
    • Rhythmic Notation
    • Meter Signatures
    • Conducting Rhythms in Simple Meters
    • Rests

    Chapter 4   -   Beat Subdivisions and Syncopation

    • Beat Subdivisions
    • Ties and Slurs
    • Syncopation
    • Triplets
    • Rhythmic Variations in Performance

    Chapter 5   -   Compound and Other Meters

    • Compound Meters
    • Meter Signatures
    • Subdivisions
    • Other Compound Meters
    • Syncopation and Duplets
    • Asymmetrical Meters and Changing Meter

    Chapter 6   -   Major Scales and Keys

    • Scales
    • Scale Types: Chromatic, Whole-Tone, and Major
    • Scale Degrees
    • Writing Major Scales
    • Major Key Signatures
    • The Circle of Fifths

    Chapter 7   -   Minor Scales and Keys

    • Parallel Keys
    • Natural Minor
    • Harmonic Minor
    • Melodic Minor
    • Comparing Scale Types
    • Relative Keys
    • Minor Key Signatures and the Circle of Fifths
    • Identifying the Key from a Score

    Chapter 8   -   Intervals

    • Intervals
    • Interval Quality
    • Inverting Intervals
    • Spelling Intervals
    • Augmented and Diminished Intervals
    • Compound Intervals
    • Consonance and Dissonance

    Chapter 9   -   Triads and the Dominant Seventh Chord

    • Triads
    • Triad Inversion
    • Triad Qualities in Major Keys
    • Triad Qualities in Minor Keys
    • Spelling Triads
    • The Dominant Seventh Chord
    • Seventh Chord Inversion
    • Spelling the Dominant Seventh Chord

    Chapter 10   -   Melody Harmonization and Cadences

    • Triads on ^1, ^4, and ^5 and the seventh chord on ^5 
    • Harmonizing Major-Key Melodies with the Basic Phrase Model
    • Cadence Types
    • The Subdominant in the Basic Phrase
    • Melodic Embellishments
    • Harmonizing Minor-Key Melodies

    Chapter 11   -   Form in Folk and Popular Songs

    • Melody and Paired Phrases
    • Quaternary Song Form
    • 32-Bar Song Form
    • Writing Melodies
    • Writing Keyboard Accompaniments
    • Form in Later Popular Music

    Chapter 12   -   Blues and Other Popular Styles

    • Pentatonic Scales
    • The Blues Scale and the 12-Bar Blues
    • Seventh Chords
    • Chord Extensions and Sus Chords

    Anthology

    • Johann Sebastian Bach, Invention in D Minor
    • Béla Bartók, “Bulgarian Rhythm,” from Mikrokosmos
    • Count Basie, “Splanky”
    • Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Sonata in C Minor, Op. 13 (Pathétique), second movement, excerpt
    • John Barnes Chance, Variations on a Korean Folk Song, excerpt
    • Jeremiah Clarke, Trumpet Voluntary (Prince of Denmark’s March), excerpt
    • Stephen Foster, “Oh, Susanna!”
    • George and Ira Gershwin, “ ’S Wonderful,” from Funny Face
    • Patrick S. Gilmore, “When Johnny Comes Marching Home”
    • “Greensleeves”
    • Don Henley, Glenn Frey, and Randy Meisner, “Take It to the Limit”
    • “Home on the Range”
    • James Horner, Barry Mann, and Cynthia Weil, “Somewhere Out There,” from An American Tail
    • Scott Joplin, “Solace”
    • Jonathan Larson, “Seasons of Love,” from Rent, excerpt
    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, String Quartet in D Minor, K. 421, third movement
    • Mozart, Variations on “Ah, vous dirai-je Maman,” excerpts
    • “My Country, ’Tis of Thee”
    • John Newton, “Amazing Grace”
    • Joel Phillips, “Blues for Norton”
    • William “Smokey” Robinson, Jr., “You’ve Really Got a Hold on Me”
    • Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, “My Funny Valentine,” from Babes in Arms
    • Franz Schubert, Waltz in B Minor, Op. 18, No. 6
    • “Simple Gifts”
    • Meredith Willson, “Till There Was You,” from The Music Man


    Appendix 1   -   Try it Answers

    Appendix 2   -   Reading Review Answers

    Appendix 3   -   Glossary

    Appendix 4   -   The Overtone Series

    Appendix 5   -   The Diatonic Modes

    Appendix 6   -   The C-Clefs

    Appendix 7   -   Basic Guitar Chords

    Appendix 8   -   Piano Fingerings for Selected Scales

    Appendix 9   -   Voice-Leading Guidelines