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Informationen zum Autor Carol Vorderman! one of Britain's best known and loved TV personalities! feels passionately about the value of education. Carol joined forces with DK in 1999 to become DK's Education Champion and has worked with them to build the bestselling Made Easy Series which includes Maths! English and Science. Klappentext Offers a simple! visual guide to helping children understand music. This guide includes semitones and note values and music appreciation. It is suitable for every parent and child! who wants to understand music theory and put it into practice. Zusammenfassung Ideal for home learning, this simple and inspirational guide helps children understand and appreciate music. Using clear, accessible pictures, and diagrams, Help Your Kids with Music is a unique visual guide to musical theory that will demystify the subject for everyone. This colourful study aid also has a glossary of key musical terms and symbols, and includes the latest updates to the UK National Curriculum, covering everything from semitones and note values, to harmony and music appreciation. Help Your Kids with Music helps you work through music step-by-step, and is the perfect home reference guide for every parent and child who wants to understand music theory and put it into practice. Series Overview : DK's bestselling Help Your Kids With series contains crystal-clear visual breakdowns of important subjects. Simple graphics and jargon-free text are key to making this series a user-friendly resource for frustrated parents who want to help their children get the most out of school. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Pitch 1: High and low 2: The piano keyboard 3: Notes on the stave 4: Clefs 2: Rhythm 1: Beats and bars 2: Note-values 3: Beams and dots 4: Time signatures 5: Compound time 6: Rests and ties 7: Grouping notes 8: Triplets and tuplets 9: Syncopation and swing 10: Beginnings and endings 11: Tempo 3: Intervals! scales! and keys 1: Sharps and flats 2: Semitones 3: Tones 4: Intervals 5: Major scales 6: Minor scales 7: Keys 8: The relative minor 9: The circle of fifths 10: Accidentals 11: Modulation 12: Transposition 13: Other scales 14: Modes 15: Tonality and atonality 4: Melody 1: What is a tune? 2: Phrasing and phrase marks 3: Types and phrases 4: Sequences 5: Ornaments 6: Dynamics 7: Musical expression 8: Musical markings 9: Analysing melodies 10: Two or more notes together 11: Writing your own melody 12: Learning by example 5: Chords and Harmony 1: Harmony 2: Consonance and dissonance 3: Diatonic and chromatic harmony 4: Degrees of the scale 5: Triads 6: Inversions 7: Chord types 8: Other notes 9: Cadences 10: Passing notes 11: Suspension 12: Modal harmony 13: Music for choirs 14: Bass 15: Chord symbols 16: Harmonizing a song melody 6: Form 1: Repeats 2: Binary form 3: Ternary form 4: Counterpoint 5: Theme and variations 6: Ostinati! loops! and riffs 7: Breaks and fills 8: Orchestral forms 7: Instruments and v...
