Music Theory Secrets

Brent Coppenbarger

doi:10.5771/9781442233249

Music Theory Secrets

94 Strategies for the Starting Musician

1. Auflage 2014

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doi.org/10.5771/9781442233249
ISBN print: 978-1-4422-3323-2
ISBN online: 978-1-4422-3324-9
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham

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Abstract

Modeled on the brilliant approach first formulated by distinguished professor of music and master clarinetist Michele Gingras in Clarinet Secrets and More Clarinet Secrets (both available from Rowman and Littlefield), Music Secrets is designed for instrumentalists, singers, conductors, composers, and other instructors and professionals seeking a quick set of pointers to improve their work as performers and producers of music. Easy to use, contributions to the Music Secrets series fill a niche for those who need quick and easy methods for learning what they need—from those just starting to the advanced musician in need of a refresher or new insights.

Rhythms, melodies, and harmonies are the building blocks of music. In Music Theory Secrets: 94 Strategies for the Starting Musician, Brent Coppenbarger offers a full range of methods to help musicians, not only grasp, but remember those key elements upon which the music they play is built: pitch, rhythm, scales, key signatures, and harmony. With over eighteen years of experience teaching music theory, Coppenbarger offers the various teaching and memory strategies he has designed to help musicians understand and retain what they need to know.

Coppenbarger covers critical information on how to determine pitch, the use of meter, and how to count rhythms in simple and compound meter; explains major scales and major key signatures, as well as minor scales and minor key signatures; surveys other types of scales (such as those used in jazz) and explains how modes work; presents necessary data on scale degree names and intervals; covers triads and various types of chords; touches upon Roman numeral analysis, inversions, and figured bass; presents non-chord tones and discusses solfege singing, including several pages of sight singing using various clefs and keys (strongly recommended for instrumentalists for practicing transpositions for the appropriate clef and range) demonstrates the different techniques musicians can use for transposing keys; and finally discusses more advanced concepts such as part-writing rules, the use of sequences, and form.

Music Theory Secrets: 94 Strategies for the Starting Musician is an indispensable resource for instrumental teachers wishing to incorporate music theory into lessons, classroom teachers, high school and college students, amateur musicians, those wanting to learn to read music, home-schooled students, and college bound music students.

Kapitel Ausklappen | EinklappenSeiten
i–xx Preface i–xx
1–20 CHAPTER 1. Pitch and Rhythm Basics 1–20
21–30 CHAPTER 2. Major Scales and Major Key Signatures 21–30
31–38 CHAPTER 3. Minor Scales and Minor Key Signatures 31–38
39–48 CHAPTER 4. Other Scales 39–48
49–56 CHAPTER 5. Scale Degree Names and Intervals 49–56
57–60 CHAPTER 6. Triads 57–60
61–66 CHAPTER 7. Chords 61–66
67–74 CHAPTER 8. Roman Numeral Analysis 67–74
75–82 CHAPTER 9. Inversions of the Chord and Figured Bass 75–82
83–90 CHAPTER 10. Nonchord Tones 83–90
91–100 CHAPTER 11. Singing with Solfège Syllables 91–100
101–106 CHAPTER 12. Transposition 101–106
107–120 CHAPTER 13. Advanced Concepts 107–120
121–126 Appendix 1. Chorale Analyses from Chapter 13 121–126
127–130 Appendix 2. Suggested Further Reading 127–130
131–134 Index 131–134
135–136 About the Author 135–136

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