How to Read Music
A Handbook For Young Musicians
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4.4 • 7 Ratings
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Publisher Description
This book introduces first year music students to the fundamental concepts needed to read music. For those students already reading music this book is a helpful reference or review tool. Each chapter focus one fundamental concept with questions/exercises at the end to practice the concept discussed. Concepts covered in this book include pitch, note value, rhythm, major scales, repeats and endings, dynamics, tempo, and articulations
Customer Reviews
Nicely done but ...
A good introduction to sight reading. Helps that includes audio examples. However, it is marred by typos.
Useful intro for any beginner, but audio samples are flawed.
This was useful to me because I was totally illiterate musically, and am less so now. Having audio samples was definitely a big part of its usefulness as an introduction. However (as of 05/09/2017) audio samples have flaws by not matching written examples. For example, where I am now in the early example on slurs, the written notes are three measures: || quarter-ED half-E | quarter-GFED | whole-C ||. But the audio plays two measures: || quarter-EDEF | eighth-GFED half-C ||. I will continue working through this since it is both free and useful in spite of the flaws. However I hope the author reads this review and fixes these flaws for future readers.