TY  - BOOK
AU  - Holst,Imogen
AU  - Britten,Benjamin
TI  - An ABC of music: a short practical guide to the basic essentials of rudiments, harmony, and form 
T2  - Oxford paperback reference
SN  - 0193171031
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Oxford, New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Music theory
KW  - fast
N1  - Originally published 1963; reprinted with corrections 1969; Includes index; 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
N2  - 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
ER  -