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This all-in-one set includes concise lessons with short exercises, ear-training activities, and reviews. Also includes ear-training CDs performed with acoustic instruments, a teacher's answer key book, reproducible teacher's activity kits, bingo games, flashcards and computer software. Also available in optional PC/Mac Student and Educator versions. (See accessory box on this page.)
Alfred Essentials of Music Theory: Complete (Book/CD)

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Book 1 (Lessons 1-25):
  • Staff, Notes and Pitches
  • Treble & Bass Clefs
  • Grad Staff & Ledger Lines
  • Note Values
  • Measure, Bar Line and Double Bar
  • 2/4, 3/4 & 4/4 Time Signatures
  • Whole, Half & Quarter Notes/Rests
  • Dotted Half & Quarter Notes
  • Ties & Slurs
  • Repeat Sign, 1st & 2nd Endings
  • Eighth Notes & Rests
  • Dynamic Signs, Tempo Marks & Articulation
  • D.C., D.S., Coda & Fine
  • Flats, Sharps & Naturals
Book 2 (Lessons 25-50):
  • Tetrachords & Major Scales
  • Key Signatures
  • Chromatic Scale
  • Intervals, Circle of Fifths
  • Perfect, Major & Minor Intervals
  • Augmented & Diminished Intervals
  • Solf¨ge & Transposition
  • Sixteenth Notes & Rests
  • Dotted Eighth Notes & Eighth Note Triplets
  • Common Time & Cut Time
  • 3/8 & 6/8 Time Signatures
  • Pick-up Notes & Syncopation
  • Primary & Major Triads
  • Scale Degree Names
  • Dominant 7th Chord
Book 3 (Lessons 51-75):
  • 1st & 2nd Inversions of Triads
  • Inversions of V7 Chords
  • Figured Bass
  • Major Chord Progressions
  • Minor Scales, Minor Triads
  • Augmented & Diminished Triads
  • Primary Triads in Minor Keys
  • Minor Chord Progressions
  • Modes
  • Harmonizing a Melody in Major and Minor Keys
  • Broken Chords & Arpeggiated Accompaniments
  • Passing and Neighboring Tones
  • Composing a Melody in Major and Minor Keys
  • 12-Bar Blues Chord Progression & Blues Scale
  • Basic Forms of Music

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  • Item: 00-16486
  • UPC: 038081168715
  • ISBN 10: 0882849514
  • ISBN 13: 9780882849515

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