Music Kit 4E Cai

by Manoff,Tom

• ISBN13: 9780393974034
• ISBN10: 0393974030
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Package
• Copyright: 2001-08-06
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

Introduced in 1976, The Music Kit was the first to offer students an integrated learning environment for the fundamentals course.

Table of Contents

Chapter One	3	(6)
Rhythm, Beat, and Tempo	3	(1)
Quarter Note and Eighth Note	3	(1)
Beaming Eighth Notes	3	(1)
Speaking Rhythms	4	(1)
Double Bar	5	(1)
Repeat Signs	5	(2)
Fermata Sign	7	(1)
Notes Control Space	7	(1)
Terms, Symbols, and Concepts	8	(1)
Chapter Two	9	(2)
Rests	9	(1)
Rests Control Space	10	(1)
Meter and Bar Lines	11	(1)
Strong and Weak Beats	11	(1)
Time Signatures	12	(1)
Counting Beats	13	(1)
Metronome and Tempo	13	(1)
Division of the Basic Pulse	13	(2)
Playing end Singing	15	(1)
Terms, Symbols, and Concepts	16
Chapter Three	11	(13)
Eighth Rest	17	(1)
Note Values	17	(1)
Speaking the Eighth Rest	18	(3)
1st and 2nd Endings	21	(1)
Other Types of Repeats	22	(1)
Terms, Symbols, and Concepts	23	(1)
Chapter Four	24	(9)
Notes Longer Than the Quarter Note	24	(1)
Notes Longer Than the Quarter Rest	24	(1)
Anacrusis	25	(1)
Counting the Anacrusis	26	(4)
Creating a Drum Pattern	30	(1)
Conducting	30	(2)
Terms, Symbols, and Concepts	32	(1)
Chapter Five	33	(9)
Note System	33	(1)
Dividing the Whole Note	33	(1)
Beams	34	(1)
Combinations of Notes with Beams	34	(1)
Relationship of Note Values	35	(1)
The Tie	36	(1)
Ties and Slurs	36	(1)
The Dotted Note	37	(2)
Writing Rests	39	(2)
Terms, Symbols, and Concepts	41	(1)
Chapter Six	42	(10)
Working with Ties and Dotted Notes	42	(2)
Division of the Basic Pulse	44	(1)
Coordinating Both Hands	45	(3)
Marking the Beat	48	(3)
Terms, Symbols, and Concepts	51	(1)
Chapter Seven	52	(10)
Subdivision of the Quarter Note into Sixteenth Notes	52	(3)
Speaking Sixteenth Notes in Meter	55	(4)
Aligning Two or More Parts	59	(2)
Terms, Symbols, and Concepts	61	(1)
Chapter Eight	62	(8)
Simple and Compound Meters	62	(1)
Counting Compound Meter	63	(3)
Speaking Compound Meter	66	(3)
Terms, Symbols, and Concepts	69	(1)
Chapter Nine	70	(8)
Triplets	70	(1)
Triplets and Eighth Notes	70	(2)
Speaking Triplets	72	(1)
The Triplet Rest	73	(1)
The Triplet and the Basic Pulse	74	(1)
Counting Eighths, Triplets, and Sixteenths	74	(3)
Terms, Symbols, and Concepts	77	(1)
Chapter Ten	78	(8)
Different Values of the Basic Pulse	78	(1)
C and ©	78	(1)
Double Whole Note and Rest	79	(3)
Triplets with Different Note Values	82	(3)
Terms, Symbols, and Concepts	85	(1)
Chapter Eleven	86	(7)
Syncopation	86	(1)
Syncopated and Nonsyncopated Rhythms	87	(5)
Terms, Symbols, and Concepts	92	(1)
Chapter Twelve	93	(8)
Mixed Meter	93	(2)
Nonmetered Music	95	(1)
Marking the Basic Pulse	95	(2)
Complex Meters	97	(2)
Terms, Symbols, and Concepts	99	(2)
APPENDIXES	101	(1)
I. Table of Note and Rest Values	101	(1)
II. Rhythm Spacers	102

Excerpts

Byencouraging students to be active learners and providing for variedlearning styles, The Music Kit has continued to foster the developmentand mastery of the basic skills needed for further study in music.Students perform frequent exercises, listen to music while examiningmusic scores, tap or clap along to recorded rhythms, and completecomputerized tutorials, drills, and quizzes that return personalizedfeedback and scores.  Not merely a textbook, The Music Kit offers acomplete system for introductory music training, which includes aWorkbook, Rhythm Reader, Scorebook, audio CD, and computer software forMacintosh and Windows.

Featuring updated software—now available for Macintosh and Windowsplatforms—a newly recorded, fully-tracked audio CD, and increasedemphasis on aural skills, the Fourth Edition continues to raise the barfor music training excellence.