Help Your Kids with Music A Unique Step by Step Visual Guide 1st edition by Carol Vorderman 0744025361 9780744025361

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ISBN-10 :  0744025361 

ISBN-13 : 9780744025361

Author:   Carol Vorderman 

Are your kids struggling with music theory? Do you wish you could help them learn how to read music? Help Your Kids With Music is what every frustrated parent needs. This invaluable guide covers all the core subjects needed to pass up to grade 5 music exams around the world, including melody, rhythm, chords and harmony, intervals, scales, and keys, styles and genres, and the instruments of the orchestra. Its unique visual approach, which uses simple, colorful illustrations and diagrams alongside a wide range of musical examples, allows parents and children to work together to understand even the trickiest concepts of music theory. Feature boxes on composers and musicians across a variety of styles and genres help children and parents learn and discover more about music, while guides to writing your own melody and harmonizing a song melody encourage budding composers to have a go at writing their own music. This book is also packed with musical examples, which you can listen to on the accompanying audio app. Perfect for exam preparation, homework help, or learning to read music as part of learning an instrument, Help Your Kids With Music is a clear, accessible guide that will help parents and children understand even complex music theory and put it into practice with confidence. Series Overview: DK’s bestselling Help Your Kids With series contains crystal-clear visual breakdowns of important subjects. Simple graphics and jargon-free text are key to making this series a user-friendly resource for frustrated parents who want to help their children get the most out of school.

Help Your Kids with Music A Unique Step by Step Visual Guide 1st Table of contents:

1 PITCH
High and low
The piano keyboard
Notes on the staff
Clefs
2 RHYTHM
Beats and measures
Note values
Beams and dots
Time signatures
Compound time
Rests and ties
Grouping notes
Triplets and tuplets
Syncopation and swing
Beginnings and endings
Tempo
3 INTERVALS, SCALES, AND KEYS
Sharps and flats
Half steps
Whole steps
Intervals
Major scales
Minor scales
Keys
The relative minor
The circle of fifths
Accidentals
Modulation
Transposition
Other scales
Modes
Tonality and atonality
4 MELODY
What is a tune?
Phrasing and phrase marks
Types of phrases
Sequences
Ornaments
Dynamics
Musical expression
Musical markings
Analyzing melodies
Two or more notes together
Writing your own melody
Learning by example
5 CHORDS AND HARMONY
Harmony
Consonance and dissonance
Diatonic and chromatic harmony
Degrees of the scale
Triads
Inversions
Chord types
Other chords
Cadences
Passing notes
Suspension
Modal harmony
Music for choirs
Bass
Chord symbols
Harmonizing a song melody
6 FORM
Repeats
Binary form
Ternary form
Counterpoint
Theme and variations
Ostinati, loops, and riffs
Breaks and fills
Orchestral forms
7 INSTRUMENTS AND VOICES
Strings
Woodwind
Brass
Keyboards
Percussion
The orchestra
The conductor
Ensembles
Rock bands
Voices
What is the score?
Words and music
8 STYLES AND GENRES
Musical textures
Folk, world, and roots
Classical music
The Baroque period
The Classical period
The Romantic period
Modern period
Dance music
Blues and jazz
Popular music
9 REFERENCE
Note-values and rest-values
Time signatures
Keys and key signatures
Chords
Scales
Musical terms glossary
Musical periods
Instrument families
Glossary
Visual index of symbols

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