Music Theory For Dummies
By Michael Pilhofer and Holly Day
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About this ebook
Whether you're a student of music or a music lover, Music Theory For Dummies presents you with essential information on how to read, write, and understand music, as well as helpful hints on composing, arranging, and creating original melodies, harmonies, and chords.
Music Theory For Dummies gives you a friendly, unintimidating overview of the material covered in a typical college-level course and makes music theory easy to understand. It includes updated information on current teaching techniques; the newest music examples and genres; information on mastering major and minor scales, using intervals, and recognizing pitches and clefs; the lowdown on rhythms, tempo, dynamics, and navigation; how to transcribe the music you hear and transposing it to other keys; harmonizing and accompanying melodies; composing and arranging for voices and instruments; performing your own music; and much more.
- Audio CD includes musical excerpts played on a variety of instruments
- Makes learning music theory as enjoyable as it is useful
- Tracks to a typical college-level music theory course
Don't get discouraged by the seemingly complicated written structure of musical theory. With Music Theory For Dummies, understanding music has never been easier!
CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of the e-book file, but are available for download after purchase.
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Reviews for Music Theory For Dummies
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I have been taking piano lessons for a month and loving it. As an adult learner I am finding the concepts incredibly interesting and have been keen to get into the theory.
My piano teacher asked me to write a tune. It turned out to be a wonderful exercise. I read the book with this tune in mind.
As a high school IT teacher I have been asked on occasion to teach beginner Flash to adult learners. I always enjoyed it as they were fun to teach but I could never follow up with an advanced class. It was too hard, the ability levels were all over the place.
This book is for musicians with some skills, guitarists and pianists particularly.
I found it a good base but some things were extremely detailed and others assumed too much. It was a quick read and I will skim it a bit in the future.