Rhythm Reading: Elementary through Advanced Training

by Kazez, Daniel

• ISBN13: 9780393970739
• ISBN10: 0393970736
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-02-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

Rhythm Reading: Elementary through Advanced Training reduces the rhythms of Western music to a series of short, frequently encountered patterns. Each pattern is introduced in a step-by-step process that encourages students to read rhythms not as individual notes but as groups of notes. These groups then recur throughout the text in a variety of carefully graded exercises.

Table of Contents

Preface	XV
Introduction	1	(4)
Rhythm and Pitch	1	(1)
Hints for Practicing	1	(1)
Conducting	2	(1)
Tempo Markings	3	(2)
UNIT I FUNDAMENTAL RHYTHM PATTERNS	5	(104)
Chapter 1 Simple Meter	7	(21)
Simple and Compound Meters	7	(1)
Time Signatures for Simple Meters	8	(1)
Simple Duple, Triple, and Quadruple Meters with a Quarter-Note Beat	9	(1)
Exercises	10	(14)
Quadruple meter
Half rest
Tie
Note endings
Duple meter
Triple meter
Augmentation dot
Whole note and whole-note rest
Beaming
Common time
Whole-measure rest
Meter changes
Composite meters
Conducting in 5/4 (2+3)
Conducting in 5/4 (3+2)
Conducting in 7/4
Canon
Hocket
Self-Test on Written Concepts	24	(2)
Recommended Listening	26	(2)
Chapter 2 Compound Meter	28	(14)
Time Signatures for Compound Meters	28	(3)
Compound Duple, Triple, and Quadruple Meters with a Dotted Quarter-Note Beat	31	(1)
Exercises	31	(9)
One beat per measure
Beaming over rests
The % sign
Retrograde canon
Self-Test on Written Concepts	40	(1)
Recommended Listening	41	(1)
Chapter 3 Simple Meter: Quarter-Note Beat	42	(15)
Exercises	42	(13)
Anacrusis
Multi-measure rests
Inverted dotting
Double dotting
Measured tremolo
Augmentation canon
Self-Test on Written Concepts	55	(2)
Chapter 4 Compound Meter: Dotted Quarter-Note Beat	57	(10)
Exercises	57	(9)
One beat per measure
Measured tremolo
Split measures
Self-Test on Written Concepts	66	(1)
Chapter 5 Simple Meter: Half-Note Beat	67	(13)
Equivalent Cells	67	(1)
Exercises	68	(11)
Double whole note; double whole rest
Alla breve
Hypermeter
Diminution canon
Self-Test on Written Concepts	79	(1)
Chapter 6 Compound Meter: Dotted Half-Note Beat	80	(11)
Equivalent Cells	80	(1)
Exercises Hypermeter	81	(9)
Self-Test on Written Concepts	90	(1)
Chapter 7 Simple Meter: Eighth-Note Beat	91	(10)
Equivalent Cells	91	(1)
Exercises XXX	92	(8)
Self-Test on Written Concepts	100	(1)
Chapter 8 Compound Meter: Dotted Eighth-Note Beat	101	(8)
Equivalent Cells	101	(1)
Exercises	102	(6)
Self-Test on Written Concepts	108	(1)
UNIT II IRREGULAR DIVISION OF THE BEAT	109	(32)
Chapter 9 Simple Meter: All Beat Values	111	(16)
Introduction to Irregular Division of the Beat	111	(2)
Quarter-Note Beat	113	(1)
Exercises	113	(7)
Triplets
Quintuplets
Sextuplets
Septuplets
Irregular division with measured tremolo
Half-Note Beat	120	(1)
Exercises	121	(2)
Eighth-Note Beat	123	(1)
Exercises	123	(2)
Self-Test on Written Concepts	125	(2)
Chapter 10 Compound Meter: All Beat Values	127	(14)
Irregular Division of the Beat in Compound Meter	127	(1)
Dotted Quarter-Note Beat	128	(1)
Exercises	128	(4)
Duplets
Quadruplets
Quintuplets
Septuplets
Dotted Half-Note Beat	132	(1)
Exercises	133	(3)
Dotted Eighth-Note Beat	136	(1)
Exercises	137	(1)
Self-Test on Written Concepts	138	(3)
UNIT III SYNCOPATION	141	(42)
Chapter 11 Simple Meter: Quarter-Note Beat	143	(13)
Introduction to Syncopation	143	(2)
Exercises	145	(9)
Cross rhythms: superduplet
Supertriplet
Less common cross rhythms
"Four against three"
"Three against four"
"Two against five"
Self-Test on Written Concepts	154	(1)
Recommended Listening	155	(1)
Chapter 12 Compound Meter: All Beat Values	156	(11)
Dotted Quarter-Note Beat	156	(1)
Exercises Hemiola	156	(4)
Dotted Half-Note Beat	160	(1)
Exercises	160	(2)
Dotted Eighth-Note Beat	162	(1)
Exercises	162	(3)
Self-Test on Written Concepts	165	(2)
Chapter 13 Simple Meter: Half-Note Beat; Eighth-Note Beat	167	(16)
Half-Note Beat	167	(1)
Exercises	168	(6)
Eighth-Note Beat	174	(1)
Exercises	174	(6)
Self-Test on Written Concepts	180	(3)
UNIT IV EXCERPTS FROM MUSIC LITERATURE	183	(34)
Chapter 14 Excerpts in Traditional Meters	185	(8)
Exercises Rhythmic alteration in Baroque music	185	(8)
Chapter 15 More Challenging Excerpts in Traditional Meters	193	(10)
Exercises	193	(10)
Chapter 16 Excerpts in Nontraditional Meters	203	(14)
Composite Meter	203	(1)
Exercises	204	(4)
Double Meter	208	(1)
Exercises	208	(1)
Unusual Beat Units	209	(1)
Exercises Longa	209	(1)
Metric Modulation	210	(1)
Exercises	211	(1)
Polymetric Music	212	(1)
Exercises	212	(1)
Ametric Music	213	(1)
Exercises	214	(2)
Self-Test on Written Concepts	216	(1)
Appendix A Special Rhythmic Symbols in Twentieth-Century Music	217	(2)
Appendix B Rhythm Cells	219	(2)
Simple Meter	219	(1)
Compound Meter	220	(1)
Appendix C Recommended Speech Cues	221	(2)
Simple Meter	221	(1)
Compound Meter	222	(1)
Glossary of Musical Terms	223	(2)
Acknowledgments	225	(2)
Index	227