Essentials of Music Theory

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EOMT1

This contemporary-looking series introduces all musical concepts through concise lessons, followed by short exercises for immediate reinforcement. A page of ear training and a page of review complete each unit.

Lessons 1-25

• Staff, Notes and Pitches
• Treble and Bass Clefs
• Grand Staff and Ledger Lines
• Note Values
• Measure, Bar Line and Double Bar
• 2/4, 3/4 and 4/4 Time Signatures
• Whole, Half and Quarter Notes and Rests
• Dotted Half Note and Dotted Quarter Note
• Ties and Slurs
• Repeat Sign, 1st and 2nd Endings
• Eighth Notes and Rests
• Dynamic Signs, Tempo Marks and Articulation
• D.C., D.S., Coda and Fine
• Flats, Sharps and Naturals
• Whole and Half Steps, Enharmonic Notes

Lessons 26-50

• Tetrachords and Major Scales
• Key Signatures
• Chromatic Scale
• Intervals, Circle of Fifths
• Perfect, Major and Minor Intervals
• Augmented and Diminished Intervals
• Solfege and Transposition
• Sixteenth Notes and Rests
• Dotted Eighth Notes and Eighth Note Triplets
• Common Time and Cut Time
• 3/8 and 6/8 Time Signatures
• Pick-up Notes and Syncopation
• Primary and Major Triads
• Scale Degree Names
• V7 (Dominant 7th ) Chord

Lessons 51-75

• 1st and 2nd Inversions of Triads
• Inversion of V7 Chords
• Figured Bass
• Major Chord Progressions
• Minor Scales and Minor Triads
• Modes
• Harmonizing a Melody in Major and Minor Keys
• Broken Chords and Arpeggiated Accompaniments
• Passing and Neighboring Tones
• Composing a Melody in Major and Minor Keys
• 12-Bar Blues Chord Progression and Blues Scale
• Basic Forms of Music