Sumy Takesue

Music Fundamentals (eBook, ePUB)

A Balanced Approach

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Music Fundamentals: A Balanced Approach, Fourth Edition combines a textbook and integrated workbook with an interactive website for those who want to learn the basics of reading music. Intended for students with little or no prior knowledge of music theory, it offers a patient approach to understanding and mastering the building blocks of musical practice and structure. Musical examples range from Elvis Presley songs to Filipino ballads to Beethoven symphonies, offering a balanced mixture of global, classical, and popular music.

The new edition includes:

• New cultural, historical, and vocabulary references
• New singing exercises with audio recordings
• New and updated musical examples with audio recordings throughout
• Revised counting method for compound meter ("1 la le 2 la le" in addition to "1 2 3 4 5 6")
• An enhanced e-book edition with integrated audio for musical examples and direct links to online exercises

The author's balanced approach to beginning music theory engages student interest while demonstrating how music theory concepts apply not only to the Western classical canon but also to popular and world music. With the beginner student in mind, Music Fundamentals: A Balanced Approach, Fourth Edition is a comprehensive text for understanding the foundations of music theory.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 564
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. August 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781003845546
• Artikelnr.: 74743980

Autorenporträt

Sumy Takesue is an Instructor at Santa Monica College, teaching theory and class and individual piano. She has taught at the University of Hawai'i (Hilo) and the University of Southern California.

Inhaltsangabe

Module 1
Basics of Pitch Module 2
Basics of Rhythm Module 3
Basics of Rhythm: Extending Duration, Anacrusis, Rests Module 4
Accidentals Module 5
Rhythm: Simple Meter Expanded Module 6
Major Scale Module 7
Major Scale Key Signatures Module 8
Rhythm: Compound Meter Module 9
Minor Scale Module 10
Intervals Module 11
Traids Module 12
Rhythm: Compound Meter Expanded Module 13
Triads: Roman Numerals Module 14
Inversions of Triads Module 15
Seventh Chords Module 16
Form in Music Appendix 1
Musical Terms Appendix 2
Acoustics Appendix 3
C Clefs (Alto and Tenor) Appendix 4
Modes Appendix 5
Other Seventh Chords (Major, Minor, Half Diminished, Diminished) Appendix 6
Basic Guitar Chords