MUSIC BASICS WITH ONLINE RESOURCES
MUS 1 - Basics of Music (Required Textbook)
by Gretchen Peregrine
ISBN#1-934250-14-7
Music Basics with Online Resources, 2nd ed.
by Gretchen Peregrine
ISBN #1-9432350-14-7
Price: $60.00
Music Basics with Online Resources covers basic music theory. After completing the lessons you will have learned to:
- Play notes on a keyboard
- Read sheet music
- Write a melody
- Use scales, intervals, and chords
- Work with key signatures and time signatures
- Recognize intervals
- Play chords and progressions
- Coordinate simple transposition
In this text you will find 14 lesson plans and worksheets, projects, tests, links, a Final Exam, and music resources (staff notes, keyboard note names, rhythmic notation, and songs)
Lesson 1: Notation (note names)
Lesson 2: Half-steps and whole steps
Lesson 3: Rhythmic examples
Lesson 4: Time signature, meter, and tempo
Lesson 5: Melody
Lesson 6: Markings in the score (dynamics, signs, form)
Lesson 8: Minor scales
Lesson 9: Key signatures
Lesson 10: Circle of Fifths
Lesson 11: Intervals
Lesson 12: Chords
Lesson 13: Inversions
Lesson 14: Chord Progressions
Appendix: Assignment schedule, resources for sheet music, web resources, extra staff paper, enharmonic keyboard, and circle of fifths