Help Your Kids with Music is a step-by-step visual guide to music theory. Help Your Kids with Music is the perfect primer to help students gain a solid foundation in music, no matter their age, skill level, or instrument.
Help Your Kids with Music clearly explains key concepts in five step-by-step chapters:
The Basics explains the types of instruments, notation for keyboard and stringed instruments, the "musical alphabet," and counting a beat. Rhythm covers the length of notes and rests, as well as basic rhythms and meters, phrasing, syncopation, tempo, and using a metronome. Tone and Melody includes everything a student needs to know about tones and how they work together to build a melody. Chords and Harmony shows how intervals work together and includes examples for horn and woodwind instruments. Form and Interpretation helps students understand how musical form can aid appreciation and interpretation for classical, jazz, blues, and other musical styles.
Author(s): Carol Vorderman, Peter Nickol, Peter Quantrill, Laura Sandford, Ann Marie Stanley, Sue Sturrock, Claire Langford (consultatn)
Series: Help Your Kids
Publisher: DK Publishing
Year: 2015
Language: English
Pages: 258
Contents 8......Page 10
FOREWORD by Ann Marie Stanley 6......Page 8
WHAT I S MUSIC? 10......Page 12
High and low 14......Page 16
The piano keyboard 16......Page 18
Notes on the staff 18......Page 20
Clefs 20......Page 22
PITCH 1......Page 15
RHYTHM 2......Page 25
Beats and measures 24......Page 26
Note values 26......Page 28
Beams and dots 28......Page 30
Time signatures 30......Page 32
Compound time 32......Page 34
Rests and ties 34......Page 36
Grouping notes 36......Page 38
Triplets and tuplets 38......Page 40
Syncopation and swing 40......Page 42
Beginnings and endings 42......Page 44
Tempo 44......Page 46
INTERVALS, SCALES, AND KEYS 3......Page 49
Sharps and flats 48......Page 50
Half steps 52......Page 54
Whole steps 54......Page 56
Intervals 56......Page 58
Major scales 60......Page 62
Minor scales 62......Page 64
Keys 64......Page 66
The relative minor 68......Page 70
The circle of fifths 70......Page 72
Accidentals 72......Page 74
Modulation 74......Page 76
Transposition 76......Page 78
Other scales 80......Page 82
Modes 86......Page 88
Tonality and atonality 88......Page 90
MELODY 4......Page 93
What is a tune? 92......Page 94
Phrasing and phrase marks 94......Page 96
Types of phrases 96......Page 98
Sequences 98......Page 100
Ornaments 100......Page 102
Dynamics 102......Page 104
Musical expression 104......Page 106
Musical markings 106......Page 108
Analyzing melodies 108......Page 110
Two or more notes together 110......Page 112
Writing your own melody 112......Page 114
Learning by example 114......Page 116
CHORDS AND HARMONY 5......Page 119
Harmony 118......Page 120
Consonance and dissonance 120......Page 122
Diatonic and chromatic harmony 122......Page 124
Degrees of the scale 124......Page 126
Triads 126......Page 128
Inversions 128......Page 130
Chord types 130......Page 132
Other notes 132......Page 134
Cadences 136......Page 138
Passing notes 138......Page 140
Suspension 140......Page 142
Modal harmony 142......Page 144
Music for choirs 144......Page 146
Bass 146......Page 148
Chord symbols 148......Page 150
Harmonizing a song melody 150......Page 152
FORM 6......Page 155
Repeats 154......Page 156
Binary form 158......Page 160
Ternary form 160......Page 162
Counterpoint 162......Page 164
Theme and variations 164......Page 166
Ostinati, loops, and riffs 166......Page 168
Breaks and fills 168......Page 170
Orchestral forms 170......Page 172
INSTRUMENTS AND VOICES 7......Page 175
Strings 174......Page 176
Woodwind 176......Page 178
Brass 178......Page 180
Keyboards 180......Page 182
Percussion 182......Page 184
The orchestra 184......Page 186
The conductor 186......Page 188
Ensembles 188......Page 190
Rock bands 190......Page 192
Voices 192......Page 194
What is the score? 194......Page 196
Words and music 196......Page 198
STYLES AND GENRES 8......Page 201
Musical textures 200......Page 202
Folk, world, and roots 202......Page 204
Classical music 204......Page 206
The Baroque period 208......Page 210
The Classical period 210......Page 212
The Romantic period 212......Page 214
Modern period 214......Page 216
Dance music 216......Page 218
Blues and jazz 220......Page 222
Popular music 222......Page 224
REFERENCE 9......Page 227
Note-values and rest-values 226......Page 228
Time signatures 228......Page 230
Keys and key signatures 230......Page 232
Chords 232......Page 234
Scales 234......Page 236
Musical terms glossary 240......Page 242
Musical periods 242......Page 244
Instrument families 244......Page 246
Glossary 246......Page 248
Visual index of symbols 250......Page 252
Index 252......Page 254
Acknowledgments 256......Page 258
