Whether you want to learn how to play an instrument, or just refresh your existing capability, whether you sing in a choir, or would simply like to follow scores while listening, this book will help you achieve your aim. It leads you carefully through the basics of pitch, rhythm, keys, scales, chords, and much more, building your knowledge chapter by chapter until you are able to read music with ease. The visual index of musical symbols laid out at the start will make clear the task at hand.Reference to common instruments and familiar tunes will help bring your learning to life, while self-testing and chapter summaries ensure that you develop and retain this new skill. By the end of the book, you will have come a long way. Your knowledge of music notation will be a pleasure to you, and a useful tool. As well as its practical applications for any performer, this book will give you insights into how music is put together. You will have the feeling of knowing the music from the inside out.

Learning to Read Music: 3rd edition

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Nickol, Peter

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This guide explains what musical symbols mean in simple easy-to-understand terms. In straightforward stages the reader can learn about pitch, rhythm, keys and more. Aimed at adults and children who are learning to play a musical instrument, the book assumes no prior knowledge of musical symbols.

Learning to Read Music: How to Make Sense of Those Mysterious Symbols

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This musical primer touches on the basics of pitch, rhythm, keys, scales, chords, and more, building the reader’s knowledge chapter by chapter. The book includes a visual index of musical symbols at the beginning that serves as a useful reference. Readers of all stripes—whether those learning how to play an instrument or those refreshing existing musical capabilities, whether singers in choirs or individuals who merely wish to be able to follow scores while listening—will gain practical knowledge as well as a deeper understanding of how music is composed.
 Esta guía musical aborda los aspectos básicos de la afinación, el ritmo, las claves, las escalas, los acordes y más, construyendo el conocimiento del lector capítulo a capítulo. El libro incluye un índice visual de símbolos musicales al comienzo que sirve de referencia. Lectores de todo tipo—ya sean los que quieren aprender a tocar un instrumento o aquéllos que quieren refrescar sus conocimientos musicales, ya canten en un coro o simplemente quieran seguir la partitura de una pieza mientras la escuchan—ganarán un conocimiento práctico así como un entendimiento más profundo de cómo se compone la música.

Aprende a leer música: Las claves prácticas de la teoría musical (Swing) (Spanish Edition)

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Learning to Read Music: 3rd edition

Learning to Read Music: How to Make Sense of Those Mysterious Symbols

Aprende a leer música: Las claves prácticas de la teoría musical (Swing) (Spanish Edition)