Neil Sissons: Read Music From Scratch
A complete guide to reading music for beginners
- Author: Sissons, Neil
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$28.50Contents
- 01. A guided tour of written music
- 02. High and low
- 03. The note A on different instruments
- 04. Long and short
- 05. Bars and beats
- 06. Writing rhythms down
- 07. Starting to read pitch and rhythm together
- 08. Rhythm versus beat
- 09. Different music, different beat
- 10. More about time signatures
- 11. Sounds and silence
- 12. The instruments of the orchestra
- 13. The sections of the orchestra
- 14. New notes
- 15. Higher and higher
- 16. Reading the Bass Clef
- 17. Moving between treble and bass clefs
- 18. Shorter notes
- 19. Putting it all together
- 20. Quarter note beats
- 21. Musical sentances
- 22. Musical punctuation
- 23. Tones and semitones
- 24. Accidentals
- 25. Reading accidentals in music
- 26. History of music at a glance
- 28. Scales and keys
- 29. Some new keys
- 30. Key signatures
- 31. Fast and slow
- 31. Minor scales
- 32. Different types of repeat signs
- 33. Intervals
- 34. Compound time
- 35. Reading music with words
- 36. Scales
- 37. Simple chords
- 38. Musical form
- 39. Reading different types of music (Voice & Organ)
- 40. Reading different types of music (String Quartet)
- 41. Reading different types of music (Orchestral score)
- 42. Reading different types of music (Vocal score)
- 43. Reading different types of music (Modern scores)
- 44. Transposing instruments
- 45. Ornaments
- 46. Musical shorthand
- 47. More notes and rests
- 48. Putting it all together (Hungarian Rhapsody
- Liszt)
- 49. Putting it all together (Sonata for Cello & Harpsichord
- JS Bach)
- 50. Putting it all together (Violin Concerto 2nd Movt
- Brahms)
- 51. Italian terms
- 52. Complete major and minor scales
- 53. Chord symbols
- 54. Answers
- 55. Reminders