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Contents at a Glance Part 1: Tones
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Contents Part 1: Tones 1 1 Pitches
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Finding Your Way ..................
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Pitches and Clefs In This Chapter
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Some instruments produce a broader
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Notes on a Piano Keyboard A good wa
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Above—and Below—the Staff The b
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The grand staff looks like this: Th
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Exercises Exercise 1-1 Write the na
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Intervals In This Chapter ◆ Chang
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Two half steps equal one whole step
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Major and Minor Intervals When you
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Beyond the Octave You don’t have
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Chord Progressions In This Chapter
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Key Signature Chords D♭ D E♭ E
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If you’re playing in a minor key,
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and vii°. The obvious choice is th
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Unlike the I-IV progression, this o
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IV-I-IV-V As this progression shows
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To demonstrate, let’s look at the
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Mary Had a Little Lamb Finally, let
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The Least You Need to Know ◆ Ever
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Phrases and Form In This Chapter
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Bridge The bridge is kind of a brea
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Classical Music Forms Within the ge
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4 Part Accompanying Learn how to tr
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15 Chapter Harmony and Counterpoint
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Living in Harmony Harmony is like p
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Tip The succession of root position
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When you’re writing harmony, ther
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When you put your two melodies toge
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What we have so far is shown here:
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Avoid big leaps. Avoid Dissonant In
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Exercise 15-2 Create two-voice harm
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Special Notation In This Chapter
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The Long and the Short of It Back i
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Glissandos Whereas turns and trills
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Notating lyrics; split words in syl
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266 Appendix A atonality Music that
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268 Appendix A downbeat The major b
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