Exam boards: Edexcel AQA OCR WJECLThis workbook has been specifically written to improve theory comprehension among students requiring a basic knowledge of the subject.Starting with the fundamentals of pitch and rhythm this workbook steadily progresses to a range of applications including key signatures scales chords and modulation.There are a number of tasks in each chapter including practical aural and written exercises based on rock pop jazz and classical music. Many of the exercises can also be explored using music technology software.This workbook is aimed at students wanting a firm grounding in music theory to GCSE level and alsocandidates preparing for early grade exams in music theory.Rebecca Berkley is a freelance writer and musician and is a music education consultant. She has taught percussion to students of all ages both as a private teacher and as a workshop leader and published percussion music. She is also a choral conductor running several choirs and directing music festivals with her husband. After starting her career as a music teacher in secondary schools she became a lecturer in music education at the University of Southampton and the Institute of Education University of London. Her PhD thesis focused on how GCSE students learn to compose and how best to teach them. She is the co-author of Rhinegold???s Edexcel GCSE Music Listening Tests (Book 3) and contributes as a freelance writer to Classroom Music Magazine.

Tous les bassistes ont, à un moment ou un autre de leur progression, besoin de posséder un minimum de notions théoriques. Pour être capable de lire, de comprendre et de suivre une partition. Pour connaître le manche de sa basse et les notes qui le composent. Pour apprendre et jouer les gammes, les modes et les arpèges.?Pour en savoir plus sur les accords. Pour maîtriser toutes les notions d'ordre rythmique. Pour créer une ligne de basse. Pour improviser. Bref...?pour être musicien ! Alors, si vous êtes ignorant en la matière, cette méthode vous ouvrira de nouveaux horizons.?Et si vous êtes fâché avec le sujet, celle-ci saura assurément vous réconcilier avec les mots théorie et solfège. N'allez pas croire pour autant que cet ouvrage est rempli de règles aussi compliquées qu'indigestes. Bien au contraire. Se voulant avant tout convivial, il permet de mettre immédiatement en pratique à la basse les différents points théoriques exposés au travers d'exemples purement musicaux. De la théorie musicale appliquée... C'est au travers de huit grands chapitres que sont présentées ici toutes les notions à connaître : la notation musicale, la connaissance du manche, l'armure et la tonalité, le rythme, les intervalles, les gammes, les modes et enfin les arpèges d'accords. Un vaste programme pour qu'une fois l'étude de cet ouvrage terminée, vous soyez en mesure de dire avec fierté : ' La théorie ? C'est facile ! '. Le CD joint à la méthode constitue une aide complémentaire de tout premier ordre, puisqu'il permet d'entendre tous les exemples musicaux tels qu'ils doivent être joués, compris et assimilés. / Tout Instrument

Music Theory For Dummies makes music theory easy to understand, with a friendly, unintimidating overview of everything you need to know to become fluent at knocking out beats, reading musical scores, and learning to anticipate where a song should go-whether you're reading someone else's music or writing your own. Whether you're a music student or a music lover, you'll learn to read, write, and understand music with this informative guide. With expert instruction, you'll put it all together as you compose, arrange, and create original melodies, harmonies, and chords of your own, with helpful tips for performing your pieces in front of an audience. This new third edition presents the most current teaching techniques, the newest music genres and examples, and updated information on all aspects of understanding, creating, and performing music.Studies have shown that music training improves children's' verbal and spatial abilities, and it's been associated with cognitive and mathematical benefits in adults. The music job market is expected to increase over the coming years, and music theory is becoming an increasingly common part of education at all levels. Music Theory For Dummies provides the instruction you need to get more out of music than you ever thought possible.Master major and minor scales, intervals, pitches, and clefs.Understand basic notation, time signals, tempo, dynamics, and navigation.Employ melodies, chords, progressions, and phrases to form music.Compose harmonies and accompanying melodies for voice and instruments. / Formation Musicale

A complete step-by-step scheme of work for specialist and non-specialist teachers. This title is the key to delivering the rigorous and ever-changing demands that make up the Key Stage 2 Music curriculum. Designed for use by any music teacher regardless of technical musical knowledge the book works progressively through the syllabus describing exaclty what is required and offering easy-to-follow solutions to bring the ideas to the classroom effectively. The guide includes: 30 Lesson plans Songs with music Separate lyric sheets Photocopiable pupil's sheets A set of appendices that address the finer details of thecurriculum. The book is complete with a CD of music for all the material featured which is ideal for those teachers without Piano-playing abilities or for those classrooms where a Piano is not available.

Acquérir aisément les connaissances nécessaires à la pratique de la musique, écouter, lire et inventer de petites pièces musicales, s'exercer efficacement à travers des jeux stimulant la compréhension et la musicalité de chacun (les premiers adaptés aux enfants dès 6-7 ans), voici quelques-unes des potentialités de ce duo: livre + cédérom. Cette formule, jusqu'alors inédite, offre l'avantage d'ouvrir des voies d'accès multiples au praticien: étude traditionnelle à l'aide d'exemples tirés des oeuvres les plus significatives d'une part, découverte intuitive et ludique grâce aux outils du multimédia d'autre part. version PC uniquement La partie livre du volume 1 synthétise les premiers chapitres du Guide de la théorie de la musique, ouvrage déjà salué par l ensemble de la profession pour la richesse et la modernité de son contenu. Le cédérom, organisé en ateliers progressifs, propose quant à lui une pédagogie musicale interactive conçue pour guider l apprenti musicien comme le mélomane, tout au long de son parcours, de la découverte à la maîtrise des bases de la musique. APERÇU DES NOTIONS ET DES OUTILS VOLUME I / LES BASES (de l'initiation à l'interprétation) Écoute et reconnaissance des hauteurs .Visualiser l'aigu et le grave, les demi-tons et les altérations .Traduire le nom des notes en anglais et en allemand .Noter les sons sur une portée dans les sept clés Exécution et notation des rythmes .Découvrir progressivement l'échelle des valeurs .Sélectionner directement les figures de notes et silences .Visualiser les durées de façon intuitive .Comprendre les valeurs pointées, liées... Développement du sens de la mesure et du tempo .Utiliser un métronome .Tester les indications de mouvement (allegro, presto, adagio...) .Changer de mesure d'un simple clic .Entrer des triolets, des duolets... Découverte de la tonalité .Se familiariser avec les intervalles .Repérer l'emplacement des demi-tons sur une gamme .Changer de tonique, de mode ou d'armure .Voyager dans le cycle des quintes... Consultation de tableaux, schémas et lexiques .Indications de mouvement et de caractère .Notation des attaques, dynamiques et ornements .Schémas des chiffrages de mesure .Lexique multilingue du vocabulaire essentiel... Mise en pratique intuitive et musicale .Exercer son oreille .Jouer et sauvegarder ses propres phrases musicales .Saisir la musique à la souris ou avec un instrument MIDI Claude Abromont enseigne l'analyse musicale au Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris. Il est également co-auteur avec Eugène de Montalembert du Guide de la théorie de la musique paru dans la même collection.

Exam boards: Edexcel AQA OCR WJECThis workbook will develop students' skills in writing about music for AS A2 and undergraduate level.Exercises appear at every stage to challenge and provide examination practice for students. These range from naming musical features and spotting grammatical errors to devising essay plans and analysing sample answers.Beginning with fundamental writing requirements this workbook moves on to address how to describe the features of a musical work as well as how to make comparisons and contrasts between specified pieces.There is advice on how to approach research what to retain and reject and how to structure anessay.Detailed analytical and dissertation-style essays are addressed as well as writing programme notes.Writing About Music Workbook promotes the development of skills which will be of use in many areas of academic life: collecting information selecting relevant material presenting arguments for and against particular propositions and expressing ideas effectively and correctly in English.'Wightman has achieved just the right tone with very clear explanations... I would feel confident giving it to pupils to read in their own time as it???s very easy for them to work from it making it a useful resource to reinforce the comments I write on their essays... I think it's probably one of the most genuinely useful books of its type.'Russell MillardHead of Academic Music Charterhouse

Tous les guitaristes ont, à un moment ou un autre de leur progression, besoin de posséder un minimum de notions théoriques. Pour être capable de lire, comprendre et suivre une partition. Pour connaître le manche de la guitare et les notes qui le composent. Pour apprendre et jouer les accords, les gammes, les modes et les arpèges. Pour maîtriser toutes les notions d'ordre rythmique. Pour composer.?Pour improviser. Bref...?pour être musicien ! Alors, si vous êtes ignorant en la matière, cette méthode vous ouvrira de nouveaux horizons.?Et si vous êtes fâché avec le sujet, celle-ci saura assurément vous réconcilier avec les mots théorie et solfège. N'allez pas croire pour autant que cet ouvrage est rempli de règles aussi compliquées qu'indigestes. Bien au contraire. Se voulant avant tout convivial, il permet de mettre immédiatement en pratique à la guitare les différents points théoriques exposés au travers d'exemples purement musicaux. De la théorie musicale appliquée... C'est au travers de neuf grands chapitres, que sont présentées ici toutes les notions à connaître : la notation musicale, la connaissance du manche, l'armure et la tonalité, le rythme, les intervalles, les gammes, les modes, les accords et enfin l'harmonisation. Un vaste programme pour qu'une fois l'étude de cet ouvrage terminée, vous soyez en mesure de dire avec fierté : ' La théorie ? C'est facile ! '. Le CD joint à la méthode constitue une aide complémentaire de tout premier ordre, puisqu'il permet d'entendre tous les exemples musicaux tels qu'ils doivent être joués, compris et assimilés. / Tout Instrument

This is the third book in a series of five. Having covered basic theory in the first two volumes this book tackles more complex issues such as chord structures and compound time however there are also chapters included that act as a revision for work from earlier grades. Following the same format as previous books all information is consolidated through the completion of practical exercises and revision chapters. This book covers the topics required to sit the ABRSM Grade 3 test.

This second edition of Music Theory For Young Musicians brings the practice exercises and examples in the text up to date with the latest ABRSM exam requirements. It also includes many clarifications that update the presentation of the ideas and concepts in the book and thus improve its logical flow: It adds a specimen test in the exam format and provides a set of revision notes on the key areas. All exercises and examples have been revised and many new exercise drills have been added. Concept explanations have been simplified for greater ease of understanding. The book's layout has been made clearer by putting themain text against a white background. Additionally a background colour has been given to each information note to make it more visually inviting.

This book is in the same format as the first in the series with lots of familiar animated friends and some new ones too. Book two builds upon what has previously been learned and tackles new topics such as ledger lines and Italian terms triplets and note groupings. Each topic has a number of exercises to consolidate what has been taught and puzzles and games are interspersed throughout to aid memory. Every fourth chapter is a revision session to ensure that information has been absorbed.

Par FLEMING TOM. Do-It-Yourself Music Theory is a fun way to get started understanding music on your own. Using well-known music from pop, classical, and many other styles, you will be given step-by-step instructions on what you need to know to get started. You\'ll be understanding everything in no time! Includes over 180 piano demonstration tracks of the following topics: · Theory basics · Understanding chords, scales, and keys · Intervals · Chord sequences · Classical music · Jazz harmony · Checkpoints for testing your knowledge Audio is accessed online using the unique code inside the book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK , a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right. / Date parution : 2022-07-20/ Théorie / Divers

At just 34 years of age Théodore Dubois was installed as a professor of harmony at the Paris Conservatoire. Whilst much of his compositional works have disappeared from primary classical repertoire his teaching has had a lasting influence. Having taught successful composers including Paul Dukas it is clear that Dubois'' Treaty of Harmony is well-informed. This music theory study guide covers a considerable range of theoretical aspects from the varying musical clefs to the use of pedal notes as well many other harmonic devices with expertise. During the preface Dubois explains the need for hisbook stating that it fills the gaps in harmonic theory exercises which preceding guides had missed. With no harmonic elements left out this Théodore Dubois theory guide is necessary to accompany all music studies.

Improve Your Theory! Grades 1 5 are the latest additions to the bestselling ‘Improve your …’ series by Paul Harris.This theory workbook takes students through every aspect of music theory covered in the grade 1 ABRSM examination. Firmly rooted in Paul Harris’ Simultaneous Learning approach it will transform how music theory is taught and learnt improving every aspect of musicianship along the way. Never before has theory been so fun or seemed so natural.This book contains:Handy fact files that cover different areas of music theory.Practice questions to help students prepare for examinations.Fun gamesand quizzes to engage students and offer new and interesting ways to tackle difficult concepts.Questions that connect theory directly with pupils’ own pieces allowing them to discover the links between music in theory and music in practice.Opportunities for composing improvising aural and listening activities all carefully devised to consolidate musical understanding.