(27 reviews)Author: Holly Day
ISBN : 1118095502
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Whether you're a student of music or a music lover, Music Theory For Dummies presents you with essential information on how to read, write, and understand music, as well as helpful hints on composing, arranging, and creating original melodies, harmonies, and chords.
Music Theory For Dummies gives you a friendly, unintimidating overview of the material covered in a typical college-level course and makes music theory easy to understand. It includes updated information on current teaching techniques; the newest music examples and genres; information on mastering major and minor scales, using intervals, and recognizing pitches and clefs; the lowdown on rhythms, tempo, dynamics, and navigation; how to transcribe the music you hear and transposing it to other keys; harmonizing and accompanying melodies; composing and arranging for voices and instruments; performing your own music; and much more.
- Audio CD includes musical excerpts played on a variety of instruments
- Makes learning music theory as enjoyable as it is useful
- Tracks to a typical college-level music theory course
Don't get discouraged by the seemingly complicated written structure of musical theory. With Music Theory For Dummies, understanding music has never been easier!
CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of the e-book file, but are available for download after purchase.
- Paperback: 336 pages
- Publisher: For Dummies; 2 edition (November 1, 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1118095502
- ISBN-13: 978-1118095508
- Product Dimensions: 1.1 x 7.4 x 9.2 inches
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{PRETITLE} Music Theory For Dummies, with Audio CD {POSTTITLE}
Whether you're a student of music or a music lover, Music Theory For Dummies presents you with essential information on how to read, write, and understand music, as well as helpful hints on composing, arranging, and creating original melodies, harmonies, and chords.
Music Theory For Dummies gives you a friendly, unintimidating overview of the material covered in a typical college-level course and makes music theory easy to understand. It includes updated information on current teaching techniques; the newest music examples and genres; information on mastering major and minor scales, using intervals, and recognizing pitches and clefs; the lowdown on rhythms, tempo, dynamics, and navigation; how to transcribe the music you hear and transposing it to other keys; harmonizing and accompanying melodies; composing and arranging for voices and instruments; performing your own music; and much more.
- Audio CD includes musical excerpts played on a variety of instruments
- Makes learning music theory as enjoyable as it is useful
- Tracks to a typical college-level music theory course
Don't get discouraged by the seemingly complicated written structure of musical theory. With Music Theory For Dummies, understanding music has never been easier!
CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of the e-book file, but are available for download after purchase.
I can't honestly review Music Theory for Dummies as a beginner, but I hope to suggest who might find it useful - or not.By frankp93
The book has an odd split between a first half that contains very elementary material about reading notation, intervals, scales, chords and progressions, followed by a later part that describes high-level form and composition ideas from a classical point of view. I don't think the transition works: the first part doesn't adequately prepare you for the second, and I'm not sure how much the second even belongs in this kind of book.
If you're interested in jazz improvisation, there's barely a couple of paragraphs that mention jazz and nothing worth your while to play. If you're interested in computer music, in spite of the pop references sprinkled throughout, there's a single mention of synthesizers in the chapter on tone and timbre; otherwise this book could have been written 40-50 years ago.
If you're a rock or blues player, there's little besides Roman numeral-style outlines of blues and pop song formulas - which is ironic because that's how a lot of people who don't know theory already communicate.
If you're a listener who wants to understand or analyze how music works - there's solid information in here but it's an overview and very compressed. At best it may point you in the direction of other books with more depth.
If you're interested in writing music of whatever genre, there are much better books out there - including the one written by co-author Holly Day, "Music Composition for Dummies".
Personally, I think this material is covered in more depth, with useful exercises, and better writing in Michael Miller's three volume series that includes, "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Music Theory, Music Composition, Arranging and Orchestration".
VINE VOICE
I am generally a fan of the "for dummies" series, but this book, especially the section on intervals, throws terms at you too fast. I have never taken an instrument lesson. Most of the reviews on Amazon seem to be from those people looking for a refresher. I wanted to expand my love of music, but by chapter ten I had to put this one down, more confused than illuminated. The book should have been longer, less dry and more for dummies like myself. Disappointed.By Brooke L. Morris
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