“An Incomplete Crash Course in Contemporary Music Theory: The Fundamentals” is a comprehensive guide providing an accessible introduction to music theory fundamentals. You will embark on a journey through the essential elements of music, exploring notes and duration, counting, the imaginary bar line, rests, time signatures, clefs, key signatures, and more. This book covers crucial concepts like enharmonic equivalents, scales, and intervals. You will also explore the relationship between notes and intervals, distinguishing major and perfect intervals from minor, diminished, augmented, and compound. This book also includes a valuable musical cheat sheet, serving as a quick reference to essential theory concepts, and offers access to online audio and video examples to further enhance the learning experience. “An Incomplete Crash Course in Contemporary Music Theory: The Fundamentals” aims to empower musicians, students, and enthusiasts alike by providing them with a solid foundation. Whether you’re a beginner seeking a clear introduction or an experienced musician looking to fill in the gaps, this book is an invaluable resource that will elevate your understanding of music theory and enhance your overall musical proficiency.

Dive into the festive spirit with the Second Edition of '10 Christmas Songs for Flute Quartet.' This collection presents a harmonious blend of classic and timeless holiday melodies arranged for flute quartet. Featuring beloved tunes such as 'Angels We Have Heard On High,' 'The First Noel,' and a jazzy 'Hark! The Herald Angels Sing,' this compilation invites both players and audiences to experience the joy of the season. With carefully cultivated arrangements, including an abridged 'Hallelujah Chorus,' this edition offers a delightful mix of traditional carols and celebratory songs. Whether you're performing in a flute ensemble or simply seeking arrangements for seasonal gatherings, this collection promises to elevate your Christmas musical experience. Embrace the magic of the holidays with these beautifully crafted renditions that capture the essence of Christmas in every note! Song list: Angels We Have Heard On High, Auld Lang Syne, Away In a Manger, Deck The Halls, Go Tell It On The Mountain, God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen, Hallelujah Chorus (Abridged), Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, I Saw Three Ships, and The First Noel.

Dive into the festive spirit with the Second Edition of '10 Christmas Songs for Brass Quartet.' This collection presents a harmonious blend of classic and timeless holiday melodies arranged for brass quartet. Featuring beloved tunes such as 'Angels We Have Heard On High,' 'The First Noel,' and a jazzy 'Hark! The Herald Angels Sing,' this compilation invites both players and audiences to experience the joy of the season. With carefully cultivated arrangements, including an abridged 'Hallelujah Chorus,' this edition offers a delightful mix of traditional carols and celebratory songs. Whether you're performing in a brass band or simply seeking arrangements for seasonal gatherings, this collection promises to elevate your Christmas musical experience. Embrace the magic of the holidays with these beautifully crafted renditions that capture the essence of Christmas in every note! Song list: Angels We Have Heard On High, Auld Lang Syne, Away In a Manger, Deck The Halls, Go Tell It On The Mountain, God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen, Hallelujah Chorus (Abridged), Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, I Saw Three Ships, and The First Noel.

Dive into the festive spirit with the Second Edition of '11 Christmas Songs for SSAA A Cappella.' This collection presents a harmonious blend of classic and timeless holiday melodies arranged for mixed voices. Featuring beloved tunes such as 'Angels We Have Heard On High,' 'Hark! The Herald Angels Sing,' and a tongue-in-cheek 'The Twelve-ish Days of Christmas,' this compilation invites both singers and audiences to experience the joy of the season. With carefully cultivated arrangements, including an abridged 'Hallelujah Chorus,' this edition offers a delightful mix of traditional carols and celebratory songs. Whether you're performing in a choir or simply seeking a cappella arrangements for seasonal gatherings, this collection promises to elevate your Christmas musical experience. Embrace the magic of the holidays with these beautifully crafted renditions that capture the essence of Christmas in every note. Song list: Angels We Have Heard On High, Auld Lang Syne, Away In a Manger, Deck The Halls, Go Tell It On The Mountain, God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen, Hallelujah Chorus (Abridged), Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, I Saw Three Ships, The First Noel, and The Twelve-ish Days of Christmas.

Basic Music Theory takes you through the sometimes confusing world of written music with a clear, concise style that is at times funny and always friendly. The book is written by an experienced teacher using methods refined over more than ten years in his private teaching studio and in schools. --from publisher description.

Theatre-Making explores modes of authorship in contemporary theatre seeking to transcend the heritage of binaries from the Twentieth century such as text-based vs. devised theatre, East vs. West, theatre vs. performance - with reference to genealogies though which these categories have been constructed in the English-speaking world.

The main purpose of the book is to explore basic music theory so thoroughly that the interested student will then be able to easily pick up whatever further theory is wanted. Music history and the physics of sound are included to the extent that they shed light on music theory. The main premise of this course is that a better understanding of where the basics come from will lead to better and faster comprehension of more complex ideas.It also helps to remember, however, that music theory is a bit like grammar. Catherine Schmidt-Hones is a music teacher from Champaign, Illinois and she has been a pioneer in open education since 2004. She is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Illinois in the Open Online Education program with a focus in Curriculum and Instruction.

How does musical harmony engage listeners in relations of desire? Where does this desire come from? Author Kenneth Smith seeks to answer these questions by analyzing works from the turn of the twentieth- century that are both harmonically enriched and psychologically complex. Desire in Chromatic Harmony yields a new theory of how chromatic chord progressions direct the listener on intricate journeys through harmonic space, mirroring the tensions of the psyche found in Schopenhauer, Freud, Lacan, Lyotard, and Deleuze. Smith extends this mode of enquiry into sophisticated music theory, while exploring philosophically engaged European and American composers such as Richard Strauss, Alexander Skryabin, Josef Suk, Charles Ives, and Aaron Copland. Focusing on harmony and chord progression, the book drills down into the diatonic undercurrent beneath densely chromatic and dissonant surfaces. From the obsession with death and mourning in Suk's asrael Symphony to an exploration of "perversion" in Strauss's elektra; from the Sufi mysticism of Szymanowski's Song of the Night to the failed fantasy of the American dream in Copland's The Tender Land, Desire in Chromatic Harmony cuts a path through the dense forests of chromatic complexity, revealing the psychological make-up of post-Wagnerian psychodynamic music.