Buch, Englisch, 496 Seiten, Format (B × H): 213 mm x 272 mm, Gewicht: 975 g
Buch, Englisch, 496 Seiten, Format (B × H): 213 mm x 272 mm, Gewicht: 975 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-754193-7
Verlag: Oxford University Press
Elements of Music, Fourth Edition, is an introduction to music fundamentals for music majors and non-majors. Organized into brief, digestible, self-contained lessons, each of which is followed by exercises and in-class activities, the text offers instructors flexibility in how they teach music fundamentals. Unmatched concision and clarity make learning fundamentals simple. Throughout the text, a core repertoire introduces students to fundamental concepts, helping students connect fundamentals to music they enjoy. And with the new Oxford fourth edition, the text offers more resources than ever for students to complete fundamentals work online.
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- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1 Pitch
- Lesson 1: Staff
- The five-line staff, pitches and notes, noteheads, ascending and descending motion,
- steps and leaps, ledger lines
- Lesson 2: Keyboard
- Piano keyboard, black and white keys, letter names for notes, steps and leaps, octaves, piano fingering
- Lesson 3: Treble clef
- Treble clef, accidentals (sharp, flat, and natural), semitones, enharmonic equivalence
- Lesson 4: Bass clef
- Bass clef, accidentals (sharp, flat, natural), semitones
- Lesson 5: Great staff
- Great staff
- Chapter 1: Supplementary Lesson
- Alto clef, tenor clef, octave signs (8va and 8vb), octave designations, double flats, and double sharps
- Chapter 1: Self-Test
- Chapter 2 Rhythm and Meter
- Lesson 6: Quarter notes, half notes, and whole notes in 4/4 meter
- Quarter notes, half notes, whole notes, stems, beats, measures (bars) and barlines, meter ("common time"), upbeat, downbeat, accent, conducting patterns, tempo
- Lesson 7: Eighth notes and sixteenth notes
- Eighth notes and sixteenth notes, flags, beams
- Lesson 8: Dots and ties
- Augmentation dot, dotted rhythms, ties, anacrusis
- Lesson 9: Rests
- Rests
- Lesson 10: Duple meter
- 2/4 and 2/2 meter, upbeat, downbeat, conducting patterns
- Lesson 11: Triple meter
- 3/4 meter and its conducting pattern
- Lesson 12: Compound meter
- Compound meter, 6/8 meter, and its conducting pattern
- Lesson 13: Syncopation
- Syncopation, accent marks, ties, and subdivision
- Chapter 2: Supplementary Lesson
- Stem direction, anacrusis, rhythmic values smaller than a sixteenth note, triplets, other duple, triple, and quadruple meters
- Chapter 2: Self-Test
- Chapter 3 Major and Minor Scales
- Lesson 14: Major scale (C major)
- Major scale, arrangement of semitones and whole tones, scale-degree numbers, scale-degree names, solfège syllables
- Lesson 15: Major scales other than C major
- Transposition, major scales with sharps, major scales with flats, circle of fifths
- Lesson 16: Major keys and key signatures
- Major keys and key signatures
- Lesson 17: Minor scale (A minor)
- Minor scale, arrangement of semitones and whole tones, scale-degree numbers, scale-degree names, solfège syllables, and raising scale-degrees
- Lesson 18: Minor scales other than A minor
- Transposition, minor scales with sharps, minor scales with flats, circle of fifths
- Lesson 19: Minor keys and key signatures
- Minor keys, minor key signatures, relative keys, parallel keys
- Lesson 20: Harmonic and melodic minor
- Harmonic minor and melodic minor scales
- Chapter 3: Supplementary Lesson
- Modes and the pentatonic scale
- Chapter 3: Self-Test
- Chapter 4 Intervals
- Lesson 21: Interval size
- Intervals, melodic and harmonic intervals, interval size, compound intervals
- Lesson 22: Seconds and thirds
- Interval quality, natural intervals, major and minor intervals, diminished and augmented intervals, enharmonically equivalent intervals
- Lesson 23: Sixths and Sevenths
- Sixths and sevenths, enharmonically equivalent intervals, interval inversion
- Lesson 24: Fourths and fifths, unisons and octaves
- Perfect intervals, fourths and fifths, unisons and octaves, interval inversion, enharmonically equivalent intervals
- Lesson 25: Intervals in a major key
- Intervals in a major key, intervals and scale degrees, consonance and dissonance
- Lesson 26: Intervals in a minor key
- Intervals in a minor key, intervals and scale degrees
- Chapter 4: Supplementary Lesson
- All intervals, doubly diminished and doubly augmented intervals, intervals in harmonic and melodic minor
- Chapter 4: Self-Test
- Chapter 5 Triads and Seventh Chords
- Lesson 27: Triads
- Triads (root, third, and fifth), triad qualities (major, minor, diminished, augmented), natural triads, chord symbols
- Lesson 28: Triads in inversion
- Soprano and bass, inversion of triads (root position, first inversion, second inversion), figured bass (, , )
- Lesson 29: Triads in major keys
- Triad names, Roman numerals, triad qualities in major keys
- Lesson 30: Triads in minor keys
- Triad names, Roman numerals, triad qualities in minor keys, and the effect of raising the leading tone
- Lesson 31: Seventh chords
- Seventh chords, major-minor (dominant) seventh chords, inversions of seventh chords, dominant seventh chords in major and minor keys, figured bass symbols, chord names
- Chapter 5: Supplementary Lesson
- Qualities of seventh chords, natural seventh chords, inversions of seventh chords, and seventh chords in major and minor keys
- Chapter 5: Self-Test
- Chapter 6 Harmony and Form
- Lesson 32: Tonic and dominant
- Harmonic progression, tonic harmony, dominant and dominant seventh harmonies, harmonizing a melody
- Lesson 33: Extending a harmonic progression
- Dominant preparation chords (ii and IV), preceding a dominant preparation chord (vi), and moving directly from IV to I
- Lesson 34: Phrase and cadence
- Phrase, authentic cadence, half cadence, and plagal cadence
- Lesson 35: Form
- Combining four-measure phrases into longer groupings (eight-, twelve-, and sixteen-measure periods) and song forms (A-B-A and A-A-B-A)
- Chapter 6: Supplementary Lesson
- Nonharmonic tones, doubling, tendency tones, voice-leading smoothness, and parallel fifths and octaves
- Glossary
