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Shanet, Howard: Learn to Read Music (Book)

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This 1956 instructional booklet may have that dated look and feel on the inside, but the information covered here is tried and true, as are the methods. Shanet covers notation, rhythm and the piano keyboard quite well, using clear and simple lanuguage throughout. You can almost picture a gentle, mild-mannered, but firm theory professor patiently working with you one-on-one as you read through the book. With lots of diagrams of the piano keyboard as well as a glossary of commonly used musical terms and plenty of appendices, this is a reference book that all of us (readers and non-readers alike) can come back to again and again for clarification.

Table of Contents
Preface
What This Book Will Do
How This Book Came to Be Written
How to Use This Book
Part One: Notation of Rhythm
First Steps
Note Symbols
Combinations of Note Symbols
Additional Symbols
Rests
Combinations of notes and rests
Tempo
Short Table of Tempo Indications
Meter
Rhythm patterns
Some Characteristic Rhythms in 2/4 Meter
Some Characteristic Rhythms in 3/4 Meter
Some Characteristic Rhythms in 4/4 Meter
Other Meters
Compound Meters
Excercises: Reading Rhythms
Notation of Pitch
Pitch of a Vibrating String
Early Notation Methods
The Staff
Clefs
Exercises: Identifying Notes
Leger Lines
Accidentals
The Piano Keyboard
Table of Visual Patterns to Aid in Identifying Notes at the Keyboard
Exercises: The Keyboard
The Key Signature
Combination of Rhythmic and Pitch Notations
"Au Clair de la Lune"
"America"
The Doxology ("Old Hundred")
"Jingle Bells"
Supplementary Symbols and Devices
Repetitions
Ornaments
Symbols for Dynamics
Symbols for Articulation, Style, Etc.
Tonality
Appendix One: Scales and Key Signatures
Scales
The Major Scale
Constructing Major Scales
Key Signatures, Major Scales
The Minor Scale
Key Signatures, Major and Minor Scales
Appendix Two: Vocabulary of Some Important and Foreign Terms Used in Music
Terms Used to Indicate Tempo
Terms Used to Indicate Change of Tempo
Terms Used to Indicate Volume of Sound
Terms Used to Indicate Change of Volume
Terms Used to Indicate Sumultaneous Reduction of Tempo and Volume
Qualifying Terms Used to Indicate Mood, Degree, Intensity or Style
Appendix Three: The C-Clefs
The Alto Clef
The Tenor Clef
Hybrid Clefs
Comparison of Clefs
Names of Octaves
Index(174 pp. softcover, 1956)


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