Music Fundamentals A Balanced Approach

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Writing Major Scales: Using Whole and Half Steps Major scales may also be written by following the pattern of ...

“He’s Got the Whole World,” Gospel song In the first example, ties are used to show the quarter note subdivision into eighth n ...

Exercise 3 Draw eight diatonicnotes, beginning and ending with the same pitch. Add accidentals as needed to create the correct ...

Although the notation with ties may make it easier for one to see the main beat, composers usually notate syncopated rhythms wit ...

5. 6. Theory Trainer Exercise 6aInput major scales. Scale Degree Names—Major Keys Each of the seven notes of a scale is given a ...

Changing the Pulse Note in Simple Meter: The Half Note When the lower number of the time signature is 2 (2/2or , 3/2or 4/2), the ...

Notice how these names have been derived: 148 Dominant – five notes UP from the tonic, counting the tonic as 1. Second note in i ...

Exercise 8 Two rhythms are given below. Clap rhythm 1, then 2, keeping the tempo constant. Notice that: The meter for the examp ...

Changing the Tonic—Singing Let’s compare the letter name, scale degree name, and solfège syllable of each note in the D major sc ...

“On the Street Where You Live” from My Fair Lady(F. Loewe, A.J. Lerner) Meter __ Piano Sonata, K.281 (Third Movement) (W.A. Moz ...

TRACKS 60–65 Each exercise below will be played twice. Listen the first time, then sing along, trying to match the pitches. Exer ...

Exercise 10—Class Exercise Draw the note values to complete the charts below. The first chart, where the eighth note is the puls ...

Track 64—Scale: Pentatonic Track 65—Scale: Chromatic Exercise 5—Class Exercise If your instructor prefers to equate “C” with “ ...

Exercise 12 In the following examples, identify the meter and the pulse note. Then write the number of beats for each note value ...

Transposition Transposition in music occurs when a melody or piece is played or sung higher or lower than the original. We see t ...

“Cai Diau” (“I Spy,” a children’s game of guessing the object), Chinese folk song from Un Nan Province Meter __ of beats: 1 1 ...

“Galop” by Offenbach transposed to E major Theory Trainer Exercise 6bIdentify tonic or dominant by ear after hearing a major sca ...

2. 3. 127 RHYTHM: SIMPLE METER EXPANDED 8 3 J œœœœœ œœœœœ œ ‰ C ̇ œ œ œ œ œœœ œ œ œ œ Workbook Exercises 5.5 and 5.6 ...

5. 6. There are a total of 15 major scales: a scale beginning on each of the seven white keys, a scale beginning on each of the ...

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