Book
Help your kids with music : a unique step-by-step visual guide / Carol Vorderman, Peter Nickol, Peter Quantrill [and three others].
Record details
- ISBN: 1465436049 (pbk., s.r.)
- ISBN: 9781465436047 (pbk., s.r.)
- Physical Description: 256 pages : colour illustrations, music + 1 audio disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
- Edition: First American edition.
- Publisher: New York, New York : DK Publishing, 2015.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Accompanying compact disc contains demonstration tracks; inserted in pocket inside front cover. Includes index. |
| Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 21.95 |
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| Subject: | Music > Instruction and study. Music theory. |
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- Dorling Kindersley Pub
Help Your Kids with Music is a step-by-step visual guide to music theory.Help Your Kids with Music is the perfect primer to help students gain a solid foundation in music, no matter their age, skill level, or instrument.
Help Your Kids with Music clearly explains key concepts in five step-by-step chapters:
- The Basics explains the types of instruments, notation for keyboard and stringed instruments, the "musical alphabet," and counting a beat.
- Rhythm covers the length of notes and rests, as well as basic rhythms and meters, phrasing, syncopation, tempo, and using a metronome.
- Tone and Melody includes everything a student needs to know about tones and how they work together to build a melody.
- Chords and Harmony shows how intervals work together and includes examples for horn and woodwind instruments.
- Form and Interpretation helps students understand how musical form can aid appreciation and interpretation for classical, jazz, blues, and other musical styles.
