Basic Music Theory: How to Read, Write, and Understand Written Music

Index-333

P
parallel minor scale, 210
parallel motion, 270
pentatonic scale, 224
percussion clef, 51, 68
perfect fifth, 199
perfect fourth, 199
perfect intervals
fifth, 199
fourth, 199
octave, 199
prime, 199
unison, 199
perfect octave, 199
perfect prime, 199
Phrygian mode, 217
pitch, 33
Practice
beginning, 145
equipment, 149
how much to, 143
how to, 148, 150
using the metronome, 151
where, 147
private teachers, 143
pulse, 92

Q
quarter, 109
quarter note, 92, 109
quarter note triplet, 130
quarter rest, 111

R
relative minor scale, 210
Rests

dotted rests, 125

eighth, 115

half, 98

quarter, 98

whole, 98

Reviews

Part I, 41

Part II, 73

Part III, 133

Part IV, 189

Part V, 229

Part VI, 277

Part VII, 303

rhythm clef, 68

root, 247

root position, 260

S

Scales

bebop, 225

blues, 222

chromatic, 169

harmonic minor, 211

major, 174, 216

melodic minor, 212

natural minor, 218

parallel minor, 210

pentatonic, 224

relative minor, 210

super Locrian, 226

whole tone, 225

second inversion, 262

seventh chord, 254

sharp, 161, 168

similar motion, 269

sixteenth note, 116

sixteenth note triplet, 129

sixty-fourth note, 288

space, 24

space note, 32

staff, 24

staff lines, 24

stem, 94

super Locrian scale, 226

T

tap, 108

third, 247

thirty-second note, 288

time signature, see meter

triad, 247

Triplets

eighth, 128

sixteenth, 129

tuner, 154

tuplet, 128

U

unison, 199

V

voice leading, 268

W

warm-up, 150

washtub bass, 156

whole note, 92, 110

whole rest, 111

whole step, 169, 175

whole tone scale, 225