Rock & Pop Theory: the essential guide offers musicians of all ages and levels a practical and relevant guide to music theory today. With a special focus on popular music.
Rock & Pop Theory: the essential guide offers musicians of all ages and levels a practical and relevant guide to music theory today. With a special focus on popular music, this indispensable guide:
- introduces key musical concepts such as pitch, tempo, rhythm, harmony, scales, instruments, musical forms and structure
- outlines the conventions governing music notation, applying these specifically to rock & pop music
- provides interesting facts and real music examples to contextualise music theory
- offers practical tips on how to identify intervals, make up melodies and rhythms, set words to music and much more
- with foreword and chapter introductions by renowned educationalist Paul Harris
- contains quick-reference tools including an appendix, list of further repertoire examples, table of instruments, periods of music history, table of scales and modes and summary keys and time signatures.
Rock & Pop Theory: the essential guide is a joint publication, published by Faber Music and Edition Peters.
- | Author: Julia Winterson, Paul Harris
- | Publisher: Faber Music Ltd
- | Publication Date: Oct 30, 2014
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- | Binding: Paperback / softback
- | ISBN-13: 9780571536337
- | ISBN-10: 0571536336
