Read Music from Scratch, Neil Sissons

Author: Sissons, Words: Kelly

ISBN 13: 9790060110672

Publisher: Boosey and Hawkes

A complete guide to reading music for beginners This tutor book and CD guides you through the basics, from clefs to chord symbols and from time-signatures to tonality so in no time you will be able to read music from scratch. The audio CD makes the written music come alive and helps you understand the language of music. Easy to use and clearly written. Published by Boosey & Hawkes in association with Classic FM. Contents - 01. A guided tour of written music - 02. High and low - 03. The note A on different instruments - 04. Long and short - 05. Bars and beats - 06. Writing rhythms down - 07. Starting to read pitch and rhythm together - 08. Rhythm versus beat - 09. Different music, different beat - 10. More about time signatures - 11. Sounds and silence - 12. The instruments of the orchestra - 13. The sections of the orchestra - 14. New notes - 15. Higher and higher - 16. Reading the Bass Clef - 17. Moving between treble and bass clefs - 18. Shorter notes - 19. Putting it all together - 20. Quarter note beats - 21. Musical sentances - 22. Musical punctuation - 23. Tones and semitones - 24. Accidentals - 25. Reading accidentals in music - 26. History of music at a glance - 28. Scales and keys - 29. Some new keys - 30. Key signatures - 31. Fast and slow - 31. Minor scales - 32. Different types of repeat signs - 33. Intervals - 34. Compound time - 35. Reading music with words - 36. Scales - 37. Simple chords - 38. Musical form - 39. Reading different types of music (Voice & Organ) - 40. Reading different types of music (String Quartet) - 41. Reading different types of music (Orchestral score) - 42. Reading different types of music (Vocal score) - 43. Reading different types of music (Modern scores) - 44. Transposing instruments - ... CD included. BOOKS (GENERAL) ~ MUSICIANSHIP Includes CD.

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