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Title: Learn to Read Music by Howard Shanet ISBN: 0-671-21027-0 Publisher: Fireside Pub. Date: June, 1971 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.83 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Exactly What I Was Looking For...
Comment: This book is THE most useful book I've purchased and read on how to read music so far. I have just started learning to play the violin (I am in my mid-40s)and although all my life I've sung and music is, and has always been, a huge part of my life(many of my family members are accomplished musicians)I've never played an instrument or had any formal musical theory training. This book is the reference I have gone back to again and again as I progress with my violin and I have questions or areas that aren't clear to me (such as the concepts of major and minor scale, flats/sharps/accidentals and how they came about). . not only does this book take you from the very basics to the complex, Howard Shanet takes the time to explain WHY certain things are the way they are in written music. I was struggling with some concepts and when my teacher explained them to me I didn't get it....I looked it up in a smaller book on music theory and the explanation was there but I still didn't quite get it . . and then I looked up the subject (this happened to be accidentals/flats and sharps and also time meters) in this book and because Howard Shanet explained why sharps and flats are written the way they are, I was able to understand the concept and work beyond it. Just an excellent book and I recommend it to anyone learning to read and play music. It is true, this book will not teach you how to play any instrument, BUT without the basics and theory in this book it would be very difficult for me to progress with my violin playing. Highly recommend it.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great buy for beginners
Comment: It has all the basics, so it's a good introduction to music notation. For those who forgot some things about reading music, this a good reference book to keep in your house. I strongly recommend this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: This is a good beginning for reading music
Comment: Though there is no substitute for one-on-one teaching, this book gives a very good introduction to the fundamentals of learning to read music. It has very thorough explanations on musical notation and offers many useful activities to build one's skill.
Upon finishing this book and its exercises, you will not have learned to play an instrument. What you will have gained is an understanding of how to read the notes and symbols on sheet music, which will be extremely beneficial to your musical development.
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Title: Basic Guide to How to Read Music by Helen Cooper ISBN: 0399511229 Publisher: Perigee Pub. Date: May, 1985 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Music Theory Made Easy by David Harp ISBN: 0918321999 Publisher: Musical Idiot Press Pub. Date: 20 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: How To Play Keyboards by Roger Evans ISBN: 0312082142 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 August, 1992 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Instant Scale and Chord Guide for Keyboards by Gary Meisner ISBN: 0793500087 Publisher: Hal Leonard Pub. Date: September, 1990 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Music Theory by Michael Miller ISBN: 0028643771 Publisher: Alpha Books Pub. Date: 11 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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