4 Music Textbooks and Note Reading Worksheet

4  Music Textbooks and a Note Reading Worksheet

Here are well written and easy-to-understand four Music texts for beginning music theory students, for all grade  levels 5 through high school and beyond, along with a good, fundamental Treble Clef Note Reading Worksheet that will help those just learning their musical notes in the treble clef.

The Basic Elements of Music:

1. Time Elements
   1.1 Rhythm
   1.2 Simple Rhythm Activities
   1.3 Meter in Music
   1.4 Musical Meter Activities
   1.5 Tempo
   1.6 Tempo Activity
   1.7 Dynamics and Accents in Music
   1.8 Musical Dynamics Activity
   1.9 Musical Accent Activity
2. Pitch Elements
   2.1 Timbre
   2.2 Melody
   2.3 Harmony
3. Combining Time and Pitch
   3.1 The Textures of Music
   3.2 Musical Textures Activity
   3.3 An Introduction to Counterpoint
   3.4 Counterpoint Activities: Listening and Discussion
   3.5 Counterpoint Activities: Singing Rounds
   3.6 Music Form Activities
   3.7 Form in Music

Pitch Notation:

1. The Staff
2. The Notes on the Staff
3. Pitch: Sharp, Flat, and Natural Notes
4. Half Steps and Whole Steps
5. Intervals
6. Octaves and the Major-Minor Tonal System
7. Harmonic Series

Reading Music Common Notation:

1. Pitch
   1.1 The Staff
   1.2 Clef
   1.3 Pitch: Sharp, Flat, and Natural Notes
   1.4 Key Signature
   1.5 Enharmonic Spelling
2. Time
   2.1 Duration: Note Lengths in Written Music
   2.2 Duration: Rest Length
   2.3 Time Signature
   2.4 Pickup Notes and Measures
   2.5 Dots, Ties, and Borrowed Divisions
   2.6 Tempo
   2.7 Repeats and Other Musical Road Map Signs
3. Style
   3.1 Dynamics and Accents in Music
   3.2 Articulation

Reading Rhythm a Learning By Doing Course:

1. Learning by Doing: An Introduction
2. Reading Rhythm Introduction
3. A Steady Beat
4. Meter
5. Half Notes and Half Rests
6. Dividing the beat in half
7. Whole Notes and Tied Notes
8. Using Different Notes for the Beat
9. Dividing Beats into Thirds
10. Dotted Notes

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12 Children's Books about the Great Musicians

12 Children's Books about the Great Musicians

These are short illustrated books for younger readers that tell the story of each musician's early life and what occurred to help them become great and accomplished musicians and composers. Each book has reading comprehension questions to answer at the end. Most of the books also include one or two .mid files, in the 'Music' folder, to listen to short excerpts of their music.

• Johann Sebastian Bach - The Story of the Boy Who Sang in the Streets
• Ludwig van Beethoven - The Story of a Little Boy Who Was Forced to Practice
• Frederic François Chopin - The Story of the Boy Who Made Beautiful Melodies
• Edvard Grieg - The Story of the Boy Who Made Music in the Land of the Midnight Sun
• George Frederick Handel - The Story of a Little Boy Who Practiced in an Attic
• Franz Joseph Haydn - The Story of the Choir Boy who Became a Great Composer
• Franz Liszt - The Story of a Boy Who Became a Great Pianist and Teacher
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - The Story of A Little Boy and His Sister Who Gave Concerts
• Franz Schubert - The Story of the Boy Who Wrote Beautiful Songs 
• Robert Schumann - The Story of the Boy Who Made Pictures in Music
• Giuseppe Verdi - The Story of the Little Boy Who Loved the Hand Organ
• Richard Wagner - The Story of the Boy Who Wrote Little Plays

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Music Appreciation: Its Language, History and Culture

Music Appreciation: Its Language, History and Culture

This music course textbook has a number of related goals:  1) to learn a variety of music traditions in Western Europe, the United States (art music, jazz, folk, rock, and musical theater), and from Africa, India, China, South America, and the Caribbean; 2) to understand concepts of melody, rhythm, harmony, texture, timbre, and form used by musicians; and 3) to understand sources of musical sounds, instruments and voices from different cultures, electronically generated sounds, and principles that determine pitch and timbre.

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Elements of Music
• Chapter 2: Musical Instruments and Ensembles
• Chapter 3: Composer, Performer, Audience
• Chapter 4: European Art Music: Middle Ages to Romantic 
• Chapter 5: European and American Art Music since 1900
• Chapter 6: American Vernacular Music
• Chapter 7: Jazz
• Chapter 8: World Music
• Appendix 1: Musician Biographies
• Appendix 2: Glossary

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5 Music Fundamentals Textbooks (Grade 5 - H.S.)

5 Music Fundamentals Textbooks - for 5th grade through high school students. These 5 detailed texts teach most of the basic areas of Music Theory for learners in classrooms and homeschool wanting to study and understand music. They include solutions to all the exercises.

Music Fundamentals 1: Pitch and Major Scales and Keys (74 pages):
  - Introduction to Pitch Notation in Music
  - Clef
  - Introduction to the Piano Keyboard
  - Pitch: Sharp, Flat, and Natural Notes
  - Chromatic and Diatonic Half Steps
  - Octave Designations in Music
  - Key Signature
  - Major Keys and Scales
  - Scale Degrees of the Diatonic Scale
  - Enharmonic Spelling
  - The Circle of Fifths

Music Fundamentals 2: Rhythm and Meter (74 pages):
 - Duration: Note Lengths in Written Music
 - Duration: Rest Length
 - Dots, Ties, and Borrowed Divisions
 - Rhythm
 - Time Signature
 - Introduction to Subdivisions in Simple Meters
  -Simple and Compound Time Signatures
 - Meter in Music
 - Introduction to Subdivisions in Compound Meters
 - Pickup Notes and Measures
 - Tempo

Music Fundamentals 3: Minor Scales and Keys (29 pages):
 - Minor Keys and Scales
 - Learning Major and Minor Scales
 - Ear Training

Music Fundamentals 4: Intervals (34 pages):
 - Intervals and Inversions
 - Quickly Recognizing Simple Intervals
 - Consonance and Dissonance

Music Fundamentals 5: Triads Chords Introduction to Roman Numerals (41 pages):
 - Triads
 - Naming Triads
 - Beginning Harmonic Analysis
 - Seventh Chords and Inversions

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