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The Musician’s Guide to Fundamentals 3rd Edition by Jane Piper Clendinning, ISBN-13: 978-0393639162
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- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; Third edition (July 1, 2018)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0393639169
- ISBN-13: 978-0393639162
A focused, musical approach to fundamentals, online or in-person.
Chapter 1. Pitch Notation and the Grand Staff
Chapter 2. Accidentals and Half and Whole Steps
Chapter 3. Simple Meters
Chapter 4. Beat Subdivisions and Syncopation
Chapter 5. Major Scales and Keys
Chapter 6. Compound Meters
Chapter 7. Minor Scales and Keys
Chapter 8. Intervals
Chapter 9. Triads and Seventh Chords
Chapter 10. Melody Harmonization and Cadences
Make Music 1. Write a Folk Song
Make Music 2. Write a Blues Song
Make Music 3. Write a Popular Song
The best online resources for mastering music fundamentalsExperience a complete online system for teaching and learning fundamentals. Every new copy of the text includes access to the interactive ebook.
Focused introduction to music fundamentals
The Third Edition has been revised and streamlined to highlight what’s important and focus on core concepts. Additional information appears in NEW In Depth boxes and in capstone Make Music projects.
Unique listen-write-perform framework
Every chapter begins with music; students listen first and concepts follow. The Musician’s Guide features more practical musicianship exercises than any other text, giving students the opportunity to use what they’ve learned to perform.
Music students love
The Musician’s Guide encompasses the wide range of music available to students in the twenty-first century. Mozart piano sonatas appear next to Broadway show tunes and recent Top 40 hits. The text includes music that is relevant to every student. NEW Make Music projects give students the opportunity to compose in a popular or folk style.
Jane Piper Clendinning is professor of music theory at the Florida State University College of Music. She has published articles reflecting her interests in the history of theory, theory and analysis of twentieth-century music, computer pitch recognition, and computer applications in music. Her current research interests include theory and analysis of popular and world musics. She has served as the chair of the Advanced Placement Music Theory Test Development Committee and as an AP reader, and is a regular consultant at AP workshops and summer Institutes.
Elizabeth West Marvin is professor of music theory and former dean of academic affairs at the Eastman School of Music. She has published in the areas of music cognition, music theory pedagogy, theory and analysis of atonal music, contour theory, history of theory, and analysis and performance. She is past president of the Society for Music Theory and is currently co-chair of the Advanced Placement Music Theory Test Development Committee. Marvin is the 2012 recipient of the Gail Boyd de Stwolinski Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Music Theory Teaching and Scholarship.
Joel Phillips is professor of music theory and composition at Westminster Choir College of Rider University and recipient of its Distinguished Teaching Award. His compositions are published by G. Schirmer, Transcontinental, GIA, and Shawnee Press. A member of the editorial review board of the Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy, Phillips served for five years as chief faculty consultant for the Advanced Placement Examination in Music Theory. He has also served as president of the Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic.
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