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Basic Concepts

Catalogue No: MB93970
ArrangementComposition
Product FormatSheet Music
£22.99
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LanguageEnglish
Pages172
Grade of DifficultyEASY
ISBN9780871665140 (087166514X)

Mel Bay proudly endorses Tom Bruner's beginning text on arranging and orchestrating music. This is a hands-on approach designed to impart essential information to the serious student!

Contents

  1. Part One - The Arranger/Orchestrator's use of the Piano
  2. Part Two - The Basics of Music Theory
  3. ÿ1. The Staff and Clefs
  4. ÿ2. Fundamental Principles of Notation
  5. ÿ3. Rest, Ties and Dotted Lines
  6. ÿ4. Intervals
  7. ÿ5. Scales
  8. ÿ6. Key Signatures
  9. ÿ7. Time Signatures
  10. ÿ8. Scale Degree Names
  11. ÿ9. Chords
  12. ÿ10. Voice Leading Principles
  13. ÿ11. The Inversion and Progression of Diatonic Triads
  14. ÿ12. The Cycle of Fifths
  15. ÿ13. Harmonic Extensions and Chord Spellings
  16. ÿ14. Altered Chords
  17. ÿ15. Minor Chords
  18. ÿ16. Augmented Chords
  19. ÿ17. Suspended Chords
  20. ÿ18. Symbols Used When Naming Chords
  21. Part Three - Principles of Transposition
  22. Part Four - The Range and Transposition of Instruments
  23. ÿ- The Woodwind Family
  24. ÿ- The Brass Instruments
  25. ÿ- The Strings
  26. ÿ- The Keyboard Instruments
  27. ÿ- Fretted Instrument Family
  28. ÿ- Percussion Instruments
  29. ÿ- The Harp
  30. ÿ- Organs
  31. ÿ- Harmonicas
  32. Part Five - Practical Exercises in Transposition
  33. Part Six - Instruments Potentials and Limitations
  34. Part Seven - Learning How to Think in Terms of Instrumental Colors
  35. Part Eight - Fundamental Harmonic Voice Leading
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