Compendium of Chords for the Cello
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helps you to think harmonically,
helps you to better analyze music,
improves your ability to sight read and to play arpeggios and double stops,
helps the fingers of your left hand to work better together as a team, and
facilitates composition and improvisation.
Benjamin Whitcomb
Benjamin Whitcomb, cellist Benjamin Whitcomb is a Professor of Cello and Music Theory at the University of Wisconsin- Whitewater, where he has received awards for his teaching, research, and service. An active recitalist and chamber musician, he performs more than thirty concerts a year around the country and overseas. He is a member of the Ancora String Quartet and the UW-Whitewater Piano Trio. Dr. Whitcomb is a frequent guest clinician and performer at universities and conferences throughout the country and abroad. His books, The Advancing Cellists Handbook series, Cello Fingerings, and Bass Fingerings, have received rave reviews from Strings magazine plus the journals of ASTA and AUSTA. He is a contributing author to Strings magazine, Sharpen Your String Technique and Teaching Music through Performance in Orchestra. He has published numerous articles on cello and on music theory, and has presented many papers at national and international conferences as well. He is also a reviewer for the American String Teacher journal, and has served as Secretary of ASTA. At UW-Whitewater, Whitcomb initiated and continues to coordinate the Theory/History Colloquium speaker series, the Musical Mosaics Faculty Concert Series, the Chancellors Quartet program, and the Summer String Camp. He is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and Oklahoma State University, and he has studied with Phyllis Young, George Neikrug, and Evan Tonsing.
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Compendium of Chords for the Cello - Benjamin Whitcomb
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Published by AuthorHouse 03/26/2018
ISBN: 978-1-5462-3069-4 (sc)
ISBN: 978-1-5462-3068-7 (e)
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Preliminaries
Double-, triple-, or quadruple-stop chords?
Triads and their inversions
Ways to play chords on the cello
Part 1: Types of Chords
Major triads
Inverted chords
Minor triads
Diminished chords
Dominant seventh chords
Introduction to chord progressions
Pattern of chord qualities
The rule of the octave
The circle of fifths
The circle of thirds
Chord progressions with suspensions
Part 2: The Basic Chord Progressions in all Keys
C major
C minor
Db major
C# major
C# minor
D major
D minor
Eb Major
Eb minor
D# minor
E major
E minor
F major
F minor
Gb major
F# major
F# minor
G major
G minor
Ab major
Ab minor
G# minor
A major
A minor
Bb major
Bb minor
A# minor
Cb major
B major
B minor
Part 3: Further Applications
Chord progressions as double stops
High registers
Modulation
Figured bass lines
Walking bass lines
Quiz on Chords
Bibliography
Biography
Acknowledgments
There are many people who helped me write this book, whether they realize it or not. First of all, I would never have been able to have written a book such as this without my primary cello teachers, Monty Lawson, Evan Tonsing, George Neikrug, and Phyllis Young.
I am extremely grateful for the useful suggestions and advice from the people who helped review this work, including Anne Witt, Tess Remy-Schumacher, Linda Jennings, Leanne League, Rebecca MacLeod, and Laurie Scott. I would also like to thank my parents, Carl and LaJean Whitcomb, my sons, Spencer and Preston, and my wife Pamela, for everything.
Introduction
There are many resources for practicing scales and arpeggios on the cello, but extremely few for practicing chords. Understanding chords on the cello can be a very useful skill for cellists for a variety of reasons, the most obvious of which is that chords appear a significant number of times in the cello repertoire. In addition, understanding chords:
• helps you to think harmonically
• helps you to better analyze music
• improves your ability to sight