Schirmer Pronouncing Pocket Manual of Musical Terms

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Author: Theodore Baker

ISBN-10: 0825672236

ISBN-13: 9780825672231

Category: Music Reference

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This handy guide has been expanded and adapted to cover all facets of music to meet the changing needs of today's musician. All of the latest musical terms, musical instruments, and performers have been added to this edition. Laura Kuhn is director of the John Cage Trust, assisted in the compilation of the eighth edition of "Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians" and the fifth edition of "Music Since 1900."

Preface   vii Introduction    ix Elements of Notation    ix Notes and Rests    ix The Staff     x The Clefs     x The Scales    xi Chromatic Signs   xiii The Intervals   xiii Diatonic Intervals of the Major Scale   xiii All Standard Intervals and Their Inversions  xiv The Keys   xv Chords  xvi Time Signatures  xvii Rules for Pronouncing German, French, and Italian                          xviii Comparative Table of Tempo Marks  xxi Musical Terms     1 Noteworthy Musicians 265