The Everything Essential Music Theory Book: A Guide to the Fundamentals of Reading, Writing, and Understanding Music (Everything Series)

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. Here is everything readers need to take their understanding of music to the next level. Perfect for everyone from the intermediate musician to the pre-collegiate music major, it's a one-stop guide to mastering one of the most important tools for every musician: musical understanding. "The Everything Music Theory Book with CD, 2nd Edition" is a complete musical education package, with a helpful audio CD, hundreds of illustrations, and challenging practice exercises. Each chapter includes essential musical concepts, taught in a clear, easy-to-understand manner. At the conclusion of each chapter, readers can apply their newfound knowledge with musical exercises to test and reinforce their understanding of music theory. With this essential guide, music enthusiasts will become true musicians in no time, regardless of their instrument or musical style Review of the basics Intervals The major scale The minor scale Musical keys and key signatures Modes and other scales Chords Seventh chords and chord inversions Movements : chord progressions More chord progressions Melodic harmonization Advanced harmony Jazz harmony Transposition and instrumentation. Music has always played an important role in everyday life. This compact volume covers the basics of music theory, as Schonbrun takes you through the very glue that holds music together