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White, Music First! 5e
Contents
Chapter 1
Elements of Music: Pitch
Middle C
The Octave
Quick Check
Musical Notation
The Staff
The Treble Clef
The Bass Clef
Ledger Lines
The Grand Staff
Playing Melodies on a Keyboard
Instrument
Quick Check
Drawing Musical Symbols
Treble
Clef
Bass
Clef
Note
Heads
Key Terms
Listening
Using What You Have Learned
Assignments
Chapter 2
Elements of Music: Rhythm
The Beat
Simple Division of the Beat
Rhythm Patterns
Repeat Sign
Quick Check
Drawing Quarter Notes and Eighth Notes
Note
Heads
Stems
Improving Your Ear
Ear-Training
Exercise I
Ear-Training
Exercise II
Ear-Training
Exercise III
Longer Note Values
Quick Check
Rests
Quick Check
The Tie
The Dot
Quick Check
Compound Division of the Beat
Quick Check
Dotted Rests
Quick Check
Summary of Relative Note and Rest
Values
Key Terms
Listening
Using What You Have Learned
Assignments
Interlude I
Chapter 3
Simple Meter
Accent
Meter
Bar Line
Measure
Meter Signature
Simple Meter
Quick Check
2/2 Meter
Quick Check
The Upbeat
Quick Check
Subdivision of the Beat
Quick Check
The Dotted Eighth Note
Quick Check
Triplets
Key Terms
Listening
Using What You Have Learned
Assignments
Chapter 4
Compound Meter
Duple-Compound Meter
Quick Check
Triple-Compound Meter
Quick Check
Quadruple-Compound Meter
Quick Check
Beaming in Simple and Compound
Meters
Key Terms
Listening
Using What You Have Learned
Assignments
Interlude II
Chapter 5
The Keyboard
The Half Step
The Whole Step
The Sharp Sign
The Flat Sign
The Natural Sign
Enharmonic Equivalents
Writing Sharps, Flats, and Naturals
Writing Half Steps and Whole Steps
The Key Signature
Quick Check
The Double Sharp
The Double Flat
Quick Check
Key Terms
Listening
Using What You Have Learned
Assignments
Chapter 6
Major Scales/Major Keys
Major Scales
The Tonic
Half Steps and Whole Steps in the
Major Scale
Diatonic Scales
Other Major Scales
Key Signatures for Major Scales
The Circle of Fifths
Determining the Key from a Key
Signature
The Dominant
Solfeggio
Quick Check
Key Terms
Listening
Using What You Have Learned
Assignments
Interlude III
Chapter 7
Intervals
Intervals and Scale Degrees
Quick Check
Specific Qualities of Intervals
Perfect
Intervals
Major
Intervals
Minor
Intervals
Quick Check
Writing Intervals Below a Given
Note
Quick Check
The Augmented Fourth and Diminished
Fifth
Summary of Common Intervals
Other Intervals
Key Terms
Listening
Using What You Have Learned
Assignments
Chapter 8
Minor Scales/Minor Keys
The Natural Minor Scale
The Harmonic Minor Scale
The Melodic Minor Scale
Key Signatures for Minor Scales
Relative Major and Minor Scales
Tonic (Parallel) Major and Minor
Scales
The Dominant in Minor
Solfeggio and Numbers
Quick Check
Transposition
Quick Check
Key Terms
Listening
Using What You Have Learned
Assignments
Interlude IV
Chapter 9
Chords--Looking
at the Musical Background
Harmony
Chord
Triad
Popular Music Chord Symbols
Diminished and Augmented Triads
Simple and Expanded Positions of Triads
Inversion of Triads
Block Chords versus Arpeggiation of Chords
Seventh Chords
The Major-Minor Seventh Chord
The Minor Seventh Chord
Key Terms
Listening
Using What You Have Learned
Assignments
Chapter 10
The Harmonic
System
The Harmonic System in Major Keys
Roman Numeral Analysis
Primary Chords
Secondary Chords
The Harmonic System in Minor Keys
Circle Progressions
The Harmonic Background of Rounds
Part Songs
Key Terms
Listening
Using What You Have Learned
Interlude V
Chapter 11
Introduction
to Harmonizing and Composing
Harmonizing Melodies
Nonharmonic Tones
Harmonic Rhythm
Playing Accompaniments on a Keyboard
Adding Rhythm to Accompaniments
Phrases in Music
Melodic Contour of Phrases
Harmonic Cadence
Form
A Final Word
Using What You Have Learned
Appendix 1
Inversion of Intervals
Appendix 2
Popular Music Chord Symbols
Appendix 3
Guitar Chords
Appendix 4
Playing a Keyboard
Instrument
Appendix 5
Answers to Selected
Problems in the Assignments
Songbook
Glossary
Index
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