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Sissons, Neil - Read Music From Scratch

Catalogue No: BH7100212
A complete guide to reading music for beginners

Product FormatBook/CD
ComposerSissons, Neil
£18.99
Typically dispatched in 5-7 working days
SeriesFrom Scratch
Pages80
ISBN9780851622682 (0851622682)
ISMN9790060110672 (M060110672)
UPC073999119923
Can’t read music? Think you’ve left it too late to learn? No problem! This new tutor book and CD makes learning easy. It 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, clearly written and jargon free, this is the ideal choice for any beginner. Published by Boosey & Hawkes in association with Classic FM.

Contents

  1. 01. A guided tour of written music
  2. 02. High and low
  3. 03. The note A on different instruments
  4. 04. Long and short
  5. 05. Bars and beats
  6. 06. Writing rhythms down
  7. 07. Starting to read pitch and rhythm together
  8. 08. Rhythm versus beat
  9. 09. Different music, different beat
  10. 10. More about time signatures
  11. 11. Sounds and silence
  12. 12. The instruments of the orchestra
  13. 13. The sections of the orchestra
  14. 14. New notes
  15. 15. Higher and higher
  16. 16. Reading the Bass Clef
  17. 17. Moving between treble and bass clefs
  18. 18. Shorter notes
  19. 19. Putting it all together
  20. 20. Quarter note beats
  21. 21. Musical sentances
  22. 22. Musical punctuation
  23. 23. Tones and semitones
  24. 24. Accidentals
  25. 25. Reading accidentals in music
  26. 26. History of music at a glance
  27. 28. Scales and keys
  28. 29. Some new keys
  29. 30. Key signatures
  30. 31. Fast and slow
  31. 31. Minor scales
  32. 32. Different types of repeat signs
  33. 33. Intervals
  34. 34. Compound time
  35. 35. Reading music with words
  36. 36. Scales
  37. 37. Simple chords
  38. 38. Musical form
  39. 39. Reading different types of music (Voice & Organ)
  40. 40. Reading different types of music (String Quartet)
  41. 41. Reading different types of music (Orchestral score)
  42. 42. Reading different types of music (Vocal score)
  43. 43. Reading different types of music (Modern scores)
  44. 44. Transposing instruments
  45. 45. Ornaments
  46. 46. Musical shorthand
  47. 47. More notes and rests
  48. 48. Putting it all together (Hungarian Rhapsody
  49. Liszt)
  50. 49. Putting it all together (Sonata for Cello & Harpsichord
  51. JS Bach)
  52. 50. Putting it all together (Violin Concerto 2nd Movt
  53. Brahms)
  54. 51. Italian terms
  55. 52. Complete major and minor scales
  56. 53. Chord symbols
  57. 54. Answers
  58. 55. Reminders
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