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About the Book

The phrase `practical theory’ may seem to be a contradiction, but it is a term that Practical Beginning Theory has, since it’s first edition in 1963, sought to embody by providing a comprehensive introduction to basic level theory that can be used in any teaching situation, even if other resource materials are limited or unavailable.

In the new edition, the text continues its mission to be an all-in-one coursebook for music fundamentals. A third author has been added to revise and update the exercises in popular music and to integrate new electronic supplements into the text. A new chapter has been added to address jazz, pop, and blues and a CD of ear-training examples is now included with each copy of the book. The software package of the prior edition has been coordinated to the new CD and mounted to the Internet and exercises throughout the text have been revised to further emphasize real music instead of artificial textbook examples.

In all, Practical Beginning Theory prepares students completely for the first semester of major-level music theory. In can be used at two- and four- year colleges and it is appropriate for pre-college students who are preparing to enter a music major or for advanced high school music theory courses.



Table of Contents:
PART I: The Musician’s Raw Materials Chapter 1The Properties of Individual Sounds Chapter 2The Notation of Musical Sounds: Pitch Chapter 3Pitch and the Keyboard Chapter 4The Notation of Musical Sounds: Rhythm Chapter 5Other Notational Signs PART II: Combinations of Materials to Create Tonality, Scales, Key Signatures, Intervals, and Triads Chapter 6Introduction to the Tonal Center Chapter 7The Major Scale, Major and Minor Seconds Chapter 8Intervals: Unison, Octave, and Major and Minor Thirds Chapter 9The Major Triad and the Interval of the Perfect Fifth Chapter 10The Circle of Fifths and the Key Signatures of the Major Scales Chapter 11The Natural Minor Scale Chapter 12Intervals: Fourths, Fifths, and the Tritone Chapter 13The Minor Triad Chapter 14More Intervals: Major and Minor Sixths and Sevenths, and More Augmented and Diminished Intervals Chapter 15Harmonic and Melodic Minor Scales Chapter 16 Augmented and Diminished Triads, The Whole Tone Scale Chapter 17Inversion of Intervals, Compound Intervals PART III: Rhythm and Meter, Melody and Harmony Chapter 18Simple Duple, Triple, and Quadruple Meters Chapter 19Syncopation Chapter 20Triplets Chapter 21Compound Meters PART IV: Melody Chapter 22Movement and Rest in Melody Chapter 23Conjunct and Disjunct Motion, Melodic Direction Chapter 24Rhythmic and Melodic Motives, Melodic Repetition and Sequence PART V: Harmony Chapter 25Triad Arrangements Chapter 26Triads in Succession Chapter 27Nonharmonic Tones Chapter 28Harmonizing a Melody Chapter 29Further Harmonizations Using I, ii, ii7, IV, V, and V7 Chapter 30Chord Symbols and Their Application in Jazz, Blues, and Popular Music Appendix 1Introduction to Musical Forms Appendix 2Keyboard Harmony Supplement Appendix 3Fingerboard Harmony for Guitar Glossary Index to Musical Examples General Index

About the Author :
Bruce Benward has been widely regarded as one of the most gifted music theory pedagogues since his textbooks first appeared in the 1960s, and has exerted a wide influence on the teaching of music theory both through his writings and through the generation of teachers that he taught. He recently retired from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780697343970
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
  • Publisher Imprint: Brown (William C.) Co ,U.S.
  • Height: 272 mm
  • No of Pages: 336
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 714 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0697343979
  • Publisher Date: 16 Aug 1999
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 15 mm
  • Width: 213 mm


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