"This book will provide useful insights into the organisation of many of those complex ideas that populate musical instruction"--Back cover.

(Explained). The circle of fifths is a familiar tool known by many musicians. Although this device usually receives nothign more than a brief explanation in most music theory books, the circle illustrates the foundation that organizes much of Western tonal music and is therefore essential to grasp. With the novice musician in mind, author Dan Maske expounds on the nature, nuances and applications of the circle of fifths throughout this book, exploring topics such as: intervals, keys and key signatures, scales, chords and chord progressions, and more.

The Circle of Fifths for Piano shows how every key, scale and chord and modulation works in music. It's essential knowledge for any aspiring musician.

Front cover has a rotating transparency attached that highlights related chord symbols printed in a wheel shape on the cover itself. The text provides instruction in the uses of this wheel.

The Circle of Fifths for Guitarists will teach you to build, understand and use the essential building-blocks of music theory to become a better musician, quickly and easily.

Getting started on Guitar or Piano can be Difficult! Songwriting can be frustrating when you don't know what you're doing. There are so many things to learn that it feels overwhelming! You don't know where to begin. Maybe you don't want to compose a symphony; you just want to play and/or write some songs on the guitar or piano. Maybe you're a singer who wants to understand the music you're singing better. Do I have to learn everything? What's the Circle of Fifths? What does a fancy circle with a bunch of letters around it have to do with the music? Why can't I just learn some songs? Understanding the way songs are constructed makes it easier, if not downright SIMPLE, to learn any song on guitar, piano, ukulele, trumpet, sousaphone or anything else you know how to play! While the Circle of Fifths looks complicated, it can be split into parts and understood by literally anyone! Even if you've never played a note of music. In fact, it's fun to learn something that few people know and that will be used every time you pick up your instrument! A Magic Bullet? Learning songs with no knowledge of music theory can be done, but it's painful! It's like feeling around in a dark room filled with square coffee tables! But with just a little beginner music theory, the lights come on and everything starts to make sense! The First Step! We all want results fast! Nobody's got time to read 200-page books explaining every possible thing about music! That's where this book is different! I've presented just the most useful things you need to know about the Circle of Fifths in this little guide! Here is a breakdown of what's inside: An explanation of what the Circle of Fifths is showing us. The Basics of how it works. An amazingly simple method that allows you to recall the entire Circle of Fifths in mere seconds! You'll learn this method to master the Circle of Fifths in just a few hours of practice! Using pictures and easy-to-understand diagrams, I'll show you an EASY way to know any key signature in seconds. This fluff-free little book gets right to the point and delivers on its promises! You'll know every "key signature" in no time! Key signatures are like a trail left behind that lets you know what musical key a song is in. When you know the key, you'll know the chords that are coming! Don't make the same mistake a lot of newbies make! Don't walk blindly into learning guitar or piano without some knowledge of the landscape! Page Up to the top of the page and click the BUY NOW button and I'll amaze you with how fast you can learn the Circle of Fifths!

This book will come as a joy, a revelation, a warm reassurance. From this one book one might well learn less about harmony than about form, about aesthetics, even about life. Some will accuse Schoenberg of not concentrating on the topic at hand, but such an accusation, though well-founded, would miss the point of Theory of Harmony, because the heart and soul of the book is to be found in his vivid and penetrating digressions. They are the fascinating reflections of a great and humane musician who was a born writer as well. - from the book.

Annotation As one of our highest expressions of thought and creativity, music has always been a difficult realm to capture, model, and understand. The connectionist paradigm, now beginning to provide insights into many realms of human behavior, offers a new and unified viewpoint from which to investigate the subtleties of musical experience. Music and Connectionism provides a fresh approach to both fields, using the techniques of connectionism and parallel distributed processing to look at a wide range of topics in music research, from pitch perception to chord fingering to composition.The contributors, leading researchers in both music psychology and neural networks, address the challenges and opportunities of musical applications of network models. The result is a current and thorough survey of the field that advances understanding of musical phenomena encompassing perception, cognition, composition, and performance, and in methods for network design and analysis.Peter M. Todd is a doctoral candidate in the PDP Research Group of the Psychology Department at Stanford University. Gareth Loy is an award-winning composer, a lecturer in the Music Department of the University of California, San Diego, and a member of the technical staff of Frox Inc.Contributors. Jamshed J. Bharucha. Peter Desain. Mark Dolson. Robert Gjerclingen. Henkjan Honing. B. Keith Jenkins. Jacqueline Jons. Douglas H. Keefe. Tuevo Kohonen. Bernice Laden. Pauli Laine. Otto Laske. Marc Leman. J. P. Lewis. Christoph Lischka. D. Gareth Loy. Ben Miller. Michael Mozer. Samir I. Sayegh. Hajime Sano. Todd Soukup. Don Scarborough. Kalev Tiits. Peter M. Todd. Kari Torkkola.