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Volume 1 immediately implements the meticulous design of Practical Music Theory. Aural training is integrated from the start through the audio samples provided. Numerous musical examples, exercises, and assignments allow students to master the material in small steps – even through self-study – and repeat sections as needed. The subject index provides a clear overview of the topics covered.

Contents include

  • Notation: Notes and staves, clefs, accidentals and naturals, note and rest symbols, relative solmization.
  • Rhythm: Note and rest values, duple and triple meter, rhythm exercises, initial rhythm dictations, dotted notes, slurs, full and upbeat, time signature changes, musical phrasing
  • Melody: Steps and skips, cuckoo call and triad tones, three- and five-tone intervals, question-and-answer, initial melodic dictations, melodic exercises, the basic triad. 
  • Intervals within five-tone and octave ranges.
  • Scales: Structure, major scales with sharps and flats, the octave range, fifth relationships, chromaticism.
  • General Theory: Volume, dynamics, tempo, articulation.

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