Alfred's Essentials of Music Theory: Complete

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The most complete music theory course ever! This all-in-one series includes concise lessons with short exercises, ear training activities and reviews. Available in three separate volumes or as a complete set, Essentials of Music Theory also includes Ear Training CDs (performed by acoustic instruments), a Teacher's Answer Key Book, reproducible Teacher's Activity Kits, Bingo Games, Flash Cards and Computer Software.


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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



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