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An ABC of music : a short practical guide to the basic essentials of rudiments, harmony, and form / by Imogen Holst ; with a foreword by Benjamin Britten.
Series: Oxford paperback referencePublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.Edition: Reissued with new coversDescription: xiii, 189 p. : music ; 20 cmISBN:- 0193171031
- 9780193171039
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Summary: An ABC Music is an introduction to the language of music surveying all the musical terms and ideas likely to be met in the beginning stages of learning an instrument. A short, practical guide, it presents the essential s of rudiments, harmony, and form, and is capable of being read straight through or used as a cumulative dictionary, with each definition leading on to the next.
The Musical Alphabet -- Musical sounds -- Notation -- Phrases -- Modal scales -- Rhythm And Time -- Pulse and time values -- Time patterns in crotchets and minims -- Dotted notes and quavers in simple and compound time -- Quick notes and slow notes -- Rests -- Repeats -- Summary of time signatures -- Less familiar time patterns -- Tension And Relaxation -- Expression marks and dynamics -- Intervals -- Consonance and dissonance -- Counterpoint -- The beginnings of counterpoint -- Renaissance counterpoint -- The smooth resolution of dissonance -- Leaps -- Chords -- Triads -- Cadences -- Inversions -- Key Relationships -- Transposition -- Relative minors -- The circle of fifths -- Modulation -- Harmonization -- Dissonances in harmony -- Chromatic harmony -- Form And Texture: 16th and 17th centuries -- Musical shapes -- 16th-century forms and textures -- Dance forms in the 16th and 17th centuries -- 17th-century Variations -- The Trio Sonata -- Continuo -- The beginnings of opera -- Ornaments -- Style In The Early Eighteenth Century -- Opera and oratorio -- Baroque concertos and sonatas -- Suites -- Cantatas -- Fugue -- Late Eighteenth-Century Style -- Music for entertainment -- Sonata form -- Quartets, symphonies and concertos -- Classical Viennese church music and opera -- Nineteenth-Century Music -- The change of style from classical to romantic -- Descriptive music -- Romantic opera, music-drama and ballet -- The Full Orchestra Of Today -- Woodwind -- Brass -- Percussion, celesta and harp -- Strings -- Italian terms and abbreviations used in score-reading -- The Twentieth-Century Break With Tradition -- Getting away from key -- Twelve-note serial music -- Electronic devices.
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The Musical Alphabet -- Musical sounds -- Notation -- Phrases -- Modal scales -- Rhythm And Time -- Pulse and time values -- Time patterns in crotchets and minims -- Dotted notes and quavers in simple and compound time -- Quick notes and slow notes -- Rests -- Repeats -- Summary of time signatures -- Less familiar time patterns -- Tension And Relaxation -- Expression marks and dynamics -- Intervals -- Consonance and dissonance -- Counterpoint -- The beginnings of counterpoint -- Renaissance counterpoint -- The smooth resolution of dissonance -- Leaps -- Chords -- Triads -- Cadences -- Inversions -- Key Relationships -- Transposition -- Relative minors -- The circle of fifths -- Modulation -- Harmonization -- Dissonances in harmony -- Chromatic harmony -- Form And Texture: 16th and 17th centuries -- Musical shapes -- 16th-century forms and textures -- Dance forms in the 16th and 17th centuries -- 17th-century Variations -- The Trio Sonata -- Continuo -- The beginnings of opera -- Ornaments -- Style In The Early Eighteenth Century -- Opera and oratorio -- Baroque concertos and sonatas -- Suites -- Cantatas -- Fugue -- Late Eighteenth-Century Style -- Music for entertainment -- Sonata form -- Quartets, symphonies and concertos -- Classical Viennese church music and opera -- Nineteenth-Century Music -- The change of style from classical to romantic -- Descriptive music -- Romantic opera, music-drama and ballet -- The Full Orchestra Of Today -- Woodwind -- Brass -- Percussion, celesta and harp -- Strings -- Italian terms and abbreviations used in score-reading -- The Twentieth-Century Break With Tradition -- Getting away from key -- Twelve-note serial music -- Electronic devices.
An ABC Music is an introduction to the language of music surveying all the musical terms and ideas likely to be met in the beginning stages of learning an instrument. A short, practical guide, it presents the essential s of rudiments, harmony, and form, and is capable of being read straight through or used as a cumulative dictionary, with each definition leading on to the next.
Originally published 1963; reprinted with corrections 1969.
Includes index.
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