Help your kids with music: a unique step-by-step visual guide

✍ Scribed by Vorderman, Carol

• Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Limited
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 258
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Offers a simple, visual guide to helping children understand music with Carol Vorderman. Reduce the stress of studying music and help your child with their homework, Help Your Kids with Music is a unique visual guide to music theory which will demystify the subject for everyone. Including the latest updates to the UK National Curriculum, covering everything from semitones and note values, to harmony and music appreciation, Help Your Kids with Music helps you work through music step-by-step. Using clear, accessible pictures and diagrams you'll learn to approach even the most complex musical theory with confidence. Includes a glossary of key musical terms and symbols. Help Your Kids with Music is the perfect guide for every parent and child, who wants to understand music theory and put it into practice.

✦ Table of Contents

1: Pitch1: High and low2: The piano keyboard3: Notes on the stave4: Clefs2: Rhythm1: Beats and bars2: Note-values3: Beams and dots4: Time signatures5: Compound time6: Rests and ties7: Grouping notes8: Triplets and tuplets9: Syncopation and swing10: Beginnings and endings11: Tempo3: Intervals, scales, and keys1: Sharps and flats2: Semitones3: Tones4: Intervals5: Major scales6: Minor scales7: Keys8: The relative minor9: The circle of fifths10: Accidentals11: Modulation12: Transposition13: Other scales14: Modes15: Tonality and atonality4: Melody1: What is a tune?2: Phrasing and phrase marks3: Types and phrases4: Sequences5: Ornaments6: Dynamics7: Musical expression8: Musical markings9: Analysing melodies10: Two or more notes together11: Writing your own melody12: Learning by example5: Chords and Harmony1: Harmony2: Consonance and dissonance3: Diatonic and chromatic harmony4: Degrees of the scale5: Triads6: Inversions7: Chord types8: Other notes9: Cadences10: Passing notes11: Suspension12: Modal harmony13: Music for choirs14: Bass15: Chord symbols16: Harmonizing a song melody6: Form1: Repeats2: Binary form3: Ternary form4: Counterpoint5: Theme and variations6: Ostinati, loops, and riffs7: Breaks and fills8: Orchestral forms7: Instruments and voices1: Strings2: Woodwind3: Brass4: Keyboards5: Percussion6: The orchestra7: The conductor8: Ensembles9: Rock bands10: Voices11: What is the score?12: Words and music8: Styles and Genres1: Musical textures2: Folk, world, and roots3: Classical music4: The Baroque period5: The Romantic period6: The Classical period7: Modern period8: Dance music9: Blues and jazz10: Popular music9: Reference1: Note-values and rest-values2: Time signatures3: Keys and key signatures4: Chords5: Scales6: Musical terms glossary7: Musical periods8: Instrument families10: Glossary11: Visual index of symbols12: Index13: Acknowledgments

✦ Subjects

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