Theory Fundamentals Workbook
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Gregory Young, Montana State University
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Publisher: Montana State University
Language: English
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Table of Contents
- Chapter 1: Tones, Semitones, and the Major Scale
- Chapter 2: Intervals
- Chapter 3: Key Signatures
- Chapter 4: Minor Scales and Key Signatures
- Chapter 5: Transposition
- Chapter 6: Triads
- Chapter 7: Triadic Inversions and Figured bass
- Chapter 8: Chorale Style
- Chapter 9: Voice Leading
- Chapter 10: Cadences
- Chapter 11: Dominant Sevenths
- Chapter 12: Harmonizing a Melody
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This workbook is a practical method for learning the rudiments of music, which are essential to a thorough understanding of music in general. Designed as a supplement to professional instruction rather than a manual for self instruction, the text is intentionally brief. The emphasis is on using practical exercises to develop fluency. Aural, vocal, and keyboard skills must be integrated into the study of music theory from the very beginning. I encourage all students, regardless of their principal instrument, to learn to hear, sing, and play on the piano everything that they do in theory. All exercises in this book should be completed thoroughly. Usually a sample will be completed in brackets for each exercise, as a demonstration. Fluency with these basic materials of music will be a great asset to any further musical endeavors. For students who need additional exercises, suggestions for further study will be given.
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Gregory Young joined the music faculty at Montana State University in 1988 and was the founding director of the Undergraduate Scholars Program. In 2009 he got a U.S. Department of Education grant to start the MSU McNair Scholars Program. He has served as Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, Assistant Dean of the College of Arts & Architecture, and Director of the School of Music. Currently clarinetist with the Intermountain Opera and Bozeman Symphony Orchestras, he received a bachelor's degree in music education from the University of Western Ontario, and master's and doctoral degrees in music from the University of Michigan. Young has taught at the University of Prince Edward Island, Memorial University of Newfoundland, the University of Western Ontario, and has lectured or performed on five continents. The United States Information Agency sponsored his concert tour of Brazil with the Kreutzer Trio and soprano Elizabeth Croy, and he has toured as soloist and conductor of the MSU Cello Ensemble throughout Europe and China. As clarinet soloist and composer, he toured Singapore, Vietnam and Thailand with the MSU Symphony in 2009. His book, “Creative Inquiry in the Arts & Humanities: Models of Undergraduate Research”, with co-editors Shanahan and Yavneh, was published in 2011 by the Council on Undergraduate Research. In 2017 Routledge Press released Shanahan and Young’s textbook, “Undergraduate Research in Music” and the MSU Wind Symphony performed his “Rocky Mountain Elk Suite” at the Kennedy Center.