Understandable Guide to Music Theory
The Most Useful Aspects of Theory for Rock, Jazz, and Blues Musicians
Published on 1. January 1994
81 pages
978-1-884365-84-3 (ISBN)
Description
This guide explains the most useful aspects of theory in clear, nontechnical language. Areas covered include scales (major, minor, modal, synthetic), chord formation, chord progression, melody, song forms, useful devices, (ostinato, mirrors, hocket, etc.), and instrumentation. It contains over 100 musical examples.
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Chaz Bufe
An Understandable Guide to Music Theory
The Most Useful Aspects of Theory for Rock, Jazz, and Blues Musicians
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01/1994
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Content
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- I. Scales
- Intervals
- Major Scales
- Minor Scales
- Modal Scales
- Synthetic Scales
- Asymmetric Scales
- Symmetric Scales
- Rows
- II. Chords
- Formation from Scales
- Inversions
- Overtone Series
- Chords in 4ths
- Clusters
- Chord Symbols
- Chords/Scales for Solos
- III. Chord Progressions
- Major and Minor Progressions
- Voice Leading
- Spacing
- Substitutions
- Modulation
- Cadences
- Cycle of 5ths
- Parallelism
- Harmonizing Rows
- IV. Melody
- Melody Construction
- Melody Types
- Melodic Variation
- V. Form
- Blues
- Turnarounds
- Bar Form
- ABAC
- Binary
- Ternary
- Classical Forms
- VI. Useful Techniques
- Ostinato
- Pedal Tone
- Hocket
- Pointillism
- Tone Color Melody
- Mirrors
- Doubling
- Tradeoffs
- Canon
- Rhythmic Variation
- VII. Instrumentation
- Ranges
- Transpositions
- Characteristics
- Woodwinds
- Brass
- Strings
- Nonorchestral Instruments
- Bibliography
