Fundamentals of Western Music

by Neil McKay and Marion McKay

[2nd Edition] This book is an introduction to reading and notating Western music. It is designed to serve as a textbook for a one-semester course at the college level. Students need no prior knowledge... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0534051065
• ISBN13: 9780534051068
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: Schirmer Books
• Length: 211 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.5" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

"Concise, flexible, PACKED with exercises"

Even non-music majors can easily understand this one. Alternating chapters on pitch and rhythm. Both aural and reading skills are used. "Songwriting is introduced in Chapter 13 as an exercise to consolidate and reinforce what students have learned." Chapters: 1. Musical Sound: It's Origin and Characteristics 2. Duration 3. Pitch 4. Beat, Meter, Rhythm 5. Rhythm (continued) 6. Accidentals and the Chromatic Scale 7. Major Scales and Key Signatures 8. Intervals 9. Compound Meter and Rhythm 10. Minor Scales and Keys and Tonality 11. Melody 12. Harmony 13. Writing a Song 14. Other Melodic, Harmonic, and Rhythmic Concepts 15. Form and Texture Appendix A: Syllables for Rhythmic Reading Appendix B: Syllables for Pitch Reading Appendix C: Piano Fingering Glossary/Index Highly recommended.