Learn to read music.
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New York,
Simon and Schuster,
1956.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- What this book will do
- How this book came to be written
- How to use this book
- pt. 1. Notation of rhythm
- Sections 1-68
- First steps
- Note symbols
- Combinations of note symbols
- Additional symbols
- Rests
- Combinations of notes and rests
- Tempo
- Short table of tempo indications
- Meter
- Rhythm patterns
- Some characteristic rhythms in 2/4 meter
- Some characteristic rhythms in 3/4 meter
- Some characteristic rhythms in 4/4 meter
- Other meters
- Compound meters
- Exercises : reading rhythms
- pt. 2. Notation of pitch
- Sections 69-108
- Pitch of a vibrating string
- Early notation methods
- The staff
- Clefs
- Exercises : identifying notes
- Leger lines
- Accidentals
- The piano keyboard
- Table of visual patterns to aid in identifying notes at the keyboard
- Exercises : the keyboard
- The key signature
- pt. 3. Combination of rhythmic and pitch notations
- Sections 109-142
- "Au Clair de la Lune"
- "America"
- The Doxology ("Old Hundred")"
- Jingle Bells"
- pt. 4. Supplementary symbols and devices
- Sections 143-172
- Repetitions
- Ornaments
- Symbols for dynamics
- Symbols for articulation, style, etc.
- pt. 5. Tonality
- Sections 173-185
- Appendix 1. Scales and key signatures
- Sections 186-213
- Scales
- The major scale
- Constructing major scales
- Key signatures, major scales
- The minor scale
- Key signatures, major and minor scales
- Appendix 2. Vocabulary of some important foreign terms used in music
- Sections 214-219
- Terms used to indicate tempo
- Terms used to indicate change of tempo
- Terms used to indicate volume of sound
- Terms used to indicate change of volume
- Terms used to indicate simultaneous reduction of tempo and volume
- Qualifying terms used to indicate mood, degree, intensity, or style
- Appendix 3. The C-clefs
- Sections 220-230
- The alto clef
- The tenor clef
- Hybrid clefs
- Comparison of clefs
- Names of octaves
- Index.