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

Arriva l'edizione italiana di uno straordinario metodo di Teoria Musicale della Berklee, scritto da Paul Schmeling, preside emerito del Dipartimento di Pianoforte al Berklee College of Music, grande pianista, interprete, improvvisatore e arrangiatore. La Teoria Musicale Berklee Volume 1 è un metodo essenziale per chiunque voglia suonare meglio, imparare a leggere, scrivere e comprendere gli elementi della musica, e inserirli nelle proprie composizioni e arrangiamenti. Il libro propone una serie di esercizi rigorosi e pratici, che aiutano a esplorare dall'interno il funzionamento della musica, presentando note, scale e ritmi, così come questi si presentano nel pop, nel jazz, nel blues. Un libro per comprendere i concetti fondamentali della teoria musicale, indispensabili per migliorare le proprie capacità di scrittura ed esecuzione musicale, attraverso esercizi scritti, esempi audio ed esercizi di ear training. / Opéra Théorique/Didactique