The Complete Idiot''s Guide to Music Theory

7 Tempo, Dynamics, and Navigation In This Chapter ◆Determining how fast to play ◆Changing tempo ◆Determining how loud to play ◆C ...

78 Par t 2:Rhythms You can indicate tempo in one of two ways: by indicating the precise number of beats per minute or by using t ...

Chapter 7:Tempo, Dynamics, and Navigation Italian Tempo Terms Tempo Means ... Slow Tempos (40–75 bpm) grave Very slow; solemn la ...

Par t 2:Rhythms Speeding Up—and Slowing Down Some pieces of music retain the same tempo throughout the entire song (think most p ...

Chapter 7:Tempo, Dynamics, and Navigation 81 When you see a fermata, hold the note. Getting Loud—and Getting Soft You now know h ...

82 Par t 2:Rhythms To abruptly change the volume level at a specific point, insert a new dynamic marking. It’s okay to indicate ...

Chapter 7:Tempo, Dynamics, and Navigation 83 Two accent marks and a marcato. More Dynamics There are even more musical markings ...

84 Par t 2:Rhythms When you’re playing a long piece of music, various parts of the song might be indicated by numbers or by lett ...

Chapter 7:Tempo, Dynamics, and Navigation Another navigation technique uses a separate section of music called the Coda. When yo ...

Par t 2:Rhythms Note repeats are indicated by drawing slash notes through the main note. One slash mark means play two notes in ...

Chapter 7:Tempo, Dynamics, and Navigation writing lots of individual measures full of whole rests, it is more common (and a lot ...

Par t 2:Rhythms Exercise 7-2 Play the following piece of music, paying strict attention to the dynamic markings. 88 Exercise 7-3 ...

Discover how to put tones and rhythms together to create a melody; then learn how to add chords to your tunes. You’ll also find ...

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8 Melodies In This Chapter ◆Creating a melody from tones and rhythms ◆Analyzing existing melodies ◆Composing your first melody ◆ ...

92 Par t 3:Tunes on the traditional labeling of tones using the letters A through G. Each tone in the song is assigned a letter ...

Chapter 8:Melodies melody we’ll look at is just one of many used throughout the work, and it goes like this: 93 One of the main ...

Par t 3:Tunes There’s something else interesting about this particular melody. The first half of the melody has an insistent upw ...

Chapter 8:Melodies 95 Pachelbel’s Canon in D Our final melody is a bit different from the ones we’ve examined so far. It’s dif- ...

96 Par t 3:Tunes This gives us the first two measures of the melody: The first two measures of our first melody. Let’s elaborate ...