4 Music Textbooks and Note Reading Worksheet
April 18, 2019
4 Music Textbooks and Note Reading Worksheet
Here are four well written and easy-to-understand Music texts for beginning music theory students, for
all grade levels, along with a good, fundamental Treble Clef Note Reading Worksheet that will help
those just learning their musical notes in the treble clef.
The Basic Elements of Music:
1. Time Elements
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Rhythm
Simple Rhythm Activities
Meter in Music
Musical Meter Activities
Tempo
Tempo Activity
Dynamics and Accents in Music
Musical Dynamics Activity
Musical Accent Activity
2. Pitch Elements
1. Timbre
2. Melody
3. Harmony
3. Combining Time and Pitch
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The Textures of Music
Musical Textures Activity
Introduction to Counterpoint
Counterpoint Activities: Listening and Discussion
Counterpoint Activities: Singing Rounds
Music Form Activities
Form in Music
Pitch Notation:
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The Staff
The Notes on the Staff
Pitch: Sharp, Flat, and Natural Notes
Half Steps and Whole Steps
Interval
Octaves and the Major-Minor Tonal System
Harmonic Series
Reading Music Common Notation:
1. Pitch
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The Staff
Clef
Pitch: Sharp, Flat, and Natural Notes
Key Signature
Enharmonic Spelling
2. Time
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Note Lengths in Written Music
Duration: Rest Length
Time Signature
Pickup Notes and Measures
Dots, Ties, and Borrowed Divisions
Tempo
Repeats and Other Musical Road Map Signs
3. Style
1. Dynamics and Accents in Music
2. Articulation
Reading Rhythm a Learning By Doing Course:
1. Learning by Doing: An Introduction
2. Reading Rhythm Introduction
3. A Steady Beat
4. Meter
5. Half Notes and Half Rests
6. Dividing the beat in half
7. Whole Notes and Tied Notes
8. Using Different Notes for the Beat
9. Dividing Beats into Thirds
10.Dotted Notes
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