Modulation for Young Musicians: A, B, C, ... notation

By Jaime Kardontchik

This book is a 2nd edition of "Modulation in classical music for young musicians" (April 2017): It adds a new chapter on string quartets by Haydn and Mozart. The book uses the A, B, C, D, E, F, G notation. (Another identical book using the Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La, Si notation is also available.) Its intended audience is teenagers attending Middle and High School and students in their first two years of college. Following an introductory chapter that explains the grammar of classical music, the rest of the book uses numerous examples taken from the Preludes by Bach and the piano sonatas and string quartets by Haydn and Mozart, demonstrating how they applied the grammar principles in their works. The book is intended both for piano students and for students playing any other "classical" instrument, like the violin or the clarinet. If you know what a "scale" is and you play scales on your instrument - then you are ready to read and understand this book. The book can we used in two modes: It can be used to understand "how classical music works." An understanding of the grammar of classical music will provide the young musician with basic tools for use in the field of the Arts. But, going beyond the level of understanding, it can also be used to develop the creativity and writing skills of the young musician. Every explained example in the book - and there are many - is like a good short story from which the student can take the theme and be asked to elaborate on it, write a few variations on the theme. This is exactly how students at school acquire their writing and creativity skills in a common language: they are asked ("homework") to write short compositions about the stories discussed or books read at school or at home. One good short story at a time, day after day.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1796238848
• ISBN13: 9781796238846
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.5" x 11.0"