Music Fundamentals A Balanced Approach

The placement of the sharps from left to right on the staff begins with a down-up-down-pattern. However, the placement of the f ...

Method 2: Counting compound meter—utilizing the divided beat as a pulse note Rests Rests in compound meter are given the same co ...

Exercise 1 Draw the key signature of C major and the seven scales with sharps. Finding the Tonic Note in a Major Scale with Shar ...

Beams To show the pulse note in compound meter, notes are beamed into groups in the following ways: Beam notes of similar value ...

Exercise 2—Class Exercise Name the key and draw the tonic note for the following key signatures. (The letter name of the key and ...

198 “For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow,” American traditional melody “The Old Hag in the Kiln” (D. Delaney), Celtic session song Pia ...

“Good Night, Ladies,” American traditional melody Key _____________________ Meter _____________________ Sonata, K. 209 (D. Sc ...

Dividing the Dotted Quarter Use one of the two methods below to count and clap the following patterns in 6/8. Your instructor ma ...

Method 1 Method 2 Pattern 1 Pattern 2 Pattern 3 Pattern 4 Pattern 5 Pattern 6 Exercise 5 The musical examples below use the six ...

Major Scales with Flats Just as there are seven scales with one to seven sharps in their key signatures, there are seven scales ...

Celtic session tune (J. Walsh) Using measure numbers, explain how the music repeats. __ Songs Without Words, Op. 53, No. 4 (F. ...

The placement of the flats in both clefs moves from left to right in an up-down-up-down pattern until the last flat. Key signa ...

Etude Tableau, Op. 33, No. 2 (S. Rachmaninoff) “A La Uno Yo Nasi,” fifteenth century Turkish-Sephardic melody Theory Trainer E ...

Finding the Tonic Note in a Major Scale with Flats The tonic note of a flatted scale (the key,or the tonic note)is easy to deter ...

For compound duplecount: 11 a 21 a OR 1234 5 6 For simple triplecount: 112131 Keep the speed of the eighth notes the same for ...

“Liza Jane,” American folk song Key _____________________ Meter _____________________ “Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’ ” from Ok ...

Notice that the half note may be used in music written in 3/4 but not in 6/8; to use the half note in 6/8 would obscure the main ...

Circle of Fifths—Major Keys The Circle of Fifths shows the 15 major scales with their increasing number of sharps or flats. The ...

Meter: ____ Meter: ____ Theory Trainer Exercise 8bListening to rhythms in compound meter: reproduce the rhythm. Further Exerci ...

177 MAJOR SCALE KEY SIGNATURES Circle of Fifths - Major Keys ...