Self-study Guide to Music Theory for all instruments
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Table of Contents for Part 2 of 3
SECTION 1. MUSICAL NOTATION
Chapter 1. Notes, intervals, symbols.
Chapter 2. Abbreviated notations of chords and keys.
Chapter 3. Scales and keys.
SECTION 2. HARMONY
Chapter 1. Chords.
Chapter 2. Table of chord degrees.
Chapter 3. Table of fourths of keys.
Chapter 4. Table of fourths of chords.
Chapter 5. How to determine the key.
Chapter 6. Harmonic moves.
Chapter 7. Transferring harmony to another key.
SECTION 3. RHYTHMICS
Chapter 1. Formation of rhythm.
Chapter 2. Syncopations.
Chapter 3. Reading rhythms.
Chapter 4. Complexity of rhythm and shifting of pulsation.
Chapter 5. Time organization of works.
SECTION 4. MELODICA AND CHORDS
Chapter 1. Basic rules of melody.
Chapter 2. Combination of melody, harmony and rhythm.
Notes: Autumn (song).
Chapter 3. Determining harmony from the text of the melody.
Chapter 4. Complicating melody and harmony.
Chapter 5. Transferring the melody to another key.
Working with the Colored Insert.
COLOR INSERT
1. Universal Quart Table of Chords and Keys.
Three Quart Tables of Chords for G//Em, C//Am, F//Dm.
2. Quart Table of Chords with Notes for Keys C//Am.
Harmony Moves in C//Am.
3. Quart Table of Chords with Notes for Keys F//Dm.
Harmony Moves in Symbols.
4. Quart Table of Chords with Notes for Keys G//Em.
Harmony Moves in G//Em.
This is where part 2 ends.
Of course, the author did not write this book for himself. Not as if for himself. When the author started making music a long time ago, he looked for and saw many books. But the author and his fellow musicians wanted another book, which did not exist then. Simple, understandable and about all music at once. And now the author has tried to create exactly the kind of book that he and his comrades would have liked to see in those distant times.
The book was written to help all beginning musicians. Children, students of regular and music schools. And also ordinary adults, students of any non-musical educational institutions, drivers and carpenters, saleswomen and office workers, soldiers and sailors.
Some of them need the beginning, but what comes next — they do not need. But others already know the beginning, they are not interested in it. — They are interested in what comes next. Let everyone find exactly what they need. The main thing is that everyone finds and understands what they were looking for. And how deeply you will study and apply it, how much time and effort you will devote — this is your business, dear reader.
Nowadays there are such programs on computers that it is not necessary to overstrain your hands. You can program music. But in order to program it, you need to understand — MUSIC THEORY.
