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How to read music and understand it : staff notation and Tonic Sol-fa / by the late John Curwen ; completed and edited by J. Spencer Curwen

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Curwen, John, 1816-1880
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781.42 C982
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London : J. Curwen & Sons ; New York : G. Schirmer Inc., [1881?]
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Contents

How to Read Music and Understand It 1
For Recorder Students 2
Some Important Text-books 2
How to Read Music and Understand It 3
PREFACE. 5
TABLE OF INTERVALS, RECKONED FROM OR TO G AND C. 6
HOW TO READ MUSIC, AND UNDERSTAND IT. I MUSIC IN MODERN LIFE. 7
II. NECESSITY FOR AND INTRODUCTORY NOTATION. 10
III. THE FIRST STEP IN SINGING. 13
IV. THE SECOND STEP IN SINGING. 18
V. THE THIRD STEP IN SINGING. 21
VI. THE FOURTH STEP IN SINGING. 27
VII. THE FIFTH STEP IN SINGING. 34
VIII. THE STAFF NOTATION.—TUNE. 41
IX. THE STAFF NOTATION.—TIME. 45
X. THE STAFF NOTATION. CLEFS 51
XI. THE STAFF NOTATION.—KEY SIGNATURES. 54
XII. THE STAFF NOTATION.—TRANSITION. 58
XIII. THE STAFF NOTATION.—HOW TO FIND THE KEY. 63
XIV. EXERCISES IN FINDING THE KEY. 69
XV. EXPRESSION. 72
Marks for Single Notes. 73
XVI. GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF EXPRESSION. 78
XVII. THE COMMON THINGS OF HARMONY.—CHORDS. 83
XVIII. THE COMMON THINGS OF HARMONY.—CHORD POSITIONS.—COMMON DISSONANCES. 88
XIX. EXERCISES IN HARMONY ANALYSIS. 94
XX. THE VOICE AS AN INSTRUMENT. 97
XXI. THE PHYSICS OF MUSIC. 105
XXII. HOW TO STUDY A SONG. 108
XXIII. COMMON FORMS OF VOCAL MUSIC. 114
XXIV. HINTS FOR MUSICAL STUDY. 120
XXV. A VOCABULARY OP MUSICAL TERMS. 123
XXVI. PRONOUNCING LIST OF THE NAMES OF LEADING FOREIGN MUSICAL COMPOSERS, PERFORMERS, AND WORKS. 131
ADDITIONAL NAMES. 135
INDEX. 136
[Chapter heading not available] 137
[Chapter heading not available] 138
[Chapter heading not available] 139
[Chapter heading not available] 140

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8218  

CURWEN EDITION  

net cash  

How to Read Music  

and Understand It  

Staff Notation and Tonic Sol-fa  

By the late JOHN  

CURWEN. Completed  

and Edited by  

J. SPENCER CURWEN  

Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music, and Warden  

of the Tonic Sol-fa College  

HALL'S BÃ’K STORE  

ONS LTD., 24 BERNERS STREET, W.l  

Inc., Sole Agents for U.S.A.  

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