Understanding Music

Understanding Music
Author: N. Alan Clark
Publisher:
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2015-12-21
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781940771335

Music moves through time; it is not static. In order to appreciate music wemust remember what sounds happened, and anticipate what sounds might comenext. This book takes you on a journey of music from past to present, from the Middle Ages to the Baroque Period to the 20th century and beyond!

Music Theory in One Lesson

Music Theory in One Lesson
Author: Ross Trottier
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-08-11
Genre: Music theory
ISBN: 9781516861842

This powerful little 52 page music theory book is a great place to start for any music lover wanting to understand how music works. Also a YouTube sensation with over a quarter million students, this method shines a fresh light on music theory. The most basic and necessary topics in music theory are covered in depth here, using easy to understand visual aids and straight-forward English. This book applies to anyone who plays any instrument. The Musical Alphabet - Begin to associate pitch with letters. Scales - Use those letters to build scales, the most basic building block in music. Intervals and Musical Distance - Use scales to build intervals and create beautiful harmony. Melody - Use scales to create beautiful melodies. Harmony - Create chord progressions that make your melodies sing. Inverting Intervals and Chords - Learn to manipulate your intervals and chords for more interesting sounds. The Tritone - Use this spicy interval to create tension and resolution in your audience. Other Types of Chords and Their Functions - More chord flavors so you can begin mixing unique sounds together. The Circle of Fifths - This secret ingredient for knowing all chords and scales instantly is covered in depth. Borrowing Across Keys - Learn to borrow from other scales to create a mixture of feeling. Modes - Learn modes to create even more melodies!

Understanding Music

Understanding Music
Author: Roger Scruton
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 506
Release: 2009-08-30
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1847065066

Essays over het snijvlak tussen compositieleer, analyse, betekenisgeving en de relatie tussen taal en muziek.

Teaching for Musical Understanding

Teaching for Musical Understanding
Author: Jackie Wiggins
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780199371730

Ideal for introductory music education, philosophy and psychology of music education, and music education methods courses, Teaching for Musical Understanding explains current research-based theories of how students learn in order to show prospective and practicing music teachers how to teach effectively. Author Jackie Wiggins draws on her twenty-two years of experience teaching K-12 music and twenty years of teaching in higher education to demonstrate how theory applies to music education. The text is deeply grounded in the work of social constructivist theorists and researchers in both education and music education. The third edition takes a cultural psychology perspective, giving more attention to sociocultural influences and to the roles of learner agency in learning process. It includes in-depth examples of assessment practices in music classrooms, stories "from the trenches," and more extensive use of endnotes and citations.

All about Music Theory

All about Music Theory
Author: Mark Harrison
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2009-07-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781423452089

Describes the fundamentals of music, covering such topics as music notation, scales and modes, chord progression, and song form and structure.

Understanding Basic Music Theory

Understanding Basic Music Theory
Author: Catherine Schmidt-Jones
Publisher:
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2018-01-28
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781680921540

The main purpose of the book is to explore basic music theory so thoroughly that the interested student will then be able to easily pick up whatever further theory is wanted. Music history and the physics of sound are included to the extent that they shed light on music theory. The main premise of this course is that a better understanding of where the basics come from will lead to better and faster comprehension of more complex ideas.It also helps to remember, however, that music theory is a bit like grammar. Catherine Schmidt-Hones is a music teacher from Champaign, Illinois and she has been a pioneer in open education since 2004. She is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Illinois in the Open Online Education program with a focus in Curriculum and Instruction.

Music Matters

Music Matters
Author: David James Elliott
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780195334043

Why is music significant in life and education? What shall we teach? How? To whom? Where and when? The praxial philosophy espoused in Music Matters: A Philosophy of Music Education offers an integrated sociocultural, artistic, participatory, and ethics-based concept of the natures and values of musics, education, musicing and listening, community music, musical understanding, musical emotions, creativity, and more. Embodied-enactive concepts of action, perception, and personhood weave through the book's proposals. Practical principles for curriculum and instruction emerge from the authors' praxial themes.

New Essays on Musical Understanding

New Essays on Musical Understanding
Author: Peter Kivy
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2001
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780199246618

Peter Kivy presents a selection of his new and recent writings on the philosophy of music, a subject to which he has for many years been one of the most eminent contributors. In his distinctively elegant and informal style, Kivy explores such topics as musicology and its history, the nature ofmusical works, and the role of emotion in music, in a way that will attract the interest of philosophical and musical readers alike. Most of the essays are published here for the first time, all of them are accessible and self-standing, and so there is much here to delight both followers of Kivy'swork and those who are new to it.

The Everything Essential Music Theory Book

The Everything Essential Music Theory Book
Author: Marc Schonbrun
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2014-08-08
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1440583404

Master musical skills quickly and easily! From classical music to new age, hard rock, and pop, music has always played an important role in everyday life. Whether you're an intermediate musician or an aspiring music major, The Everything Essential Music Theory Book is a guide to mastering one of the most important tools for every musician: musical understanding. This compact, portable volume covers all the basics, including: The construction of chords and scales How to understand rhythm and time signatures How keys are identified and organized Creating harmonization and melody With each clear and easy-to-understand chapter, musician and educator Marc Schonbrun takes you through the essentials of music theory--the very glue that holds music together.