Classroom Keyboard - Play and Create Melodies With Chords

This book will facilitate meeting the Core Music Standards for grades 5 through 8, and the novice/intermediate Harmonizing Instruments Strand.

List of contents

NOTATION
1
Musical Sound
White Key Names
The Keyboard
Octave and Middle C
Posture and Hands
C position
Playing Keyboards
Step, Skip and Repeat
Pitch Motion

2
Hand Positions
Changing Position
Playing Music
Composition One

3
Rhythm
Notes and Rests
Treble Clef and Staff
Beats and Notes
Lines and Spaces
Notated Pitch Motion
Playing Melodies

4
Time Signatures
Notes and Beats
Bass Clef and Staff
Beats and Notes
Stems & Grand Staff
Composition Two

5
Dots & Ties
Partial Measures

6
Shorter Notes and Rests
Composition Three

CHORDS
7
Overtones
Intervals
Notated Intervals

8
Chords
Notated Chords
Chord Progressions

9
Chord Structure
Chord Inversion
5 Fingers, 7 pitches
Improvised Endings
Composition Four

10
Lead Sheets
Composition Five

11
Chording Styles
Song Accompaniment
Rock Styles

F MAJOR
12
Half and Whole Steps
C Major Scale
Black Key Names
Notated Accidentals
Scales & The Blues

13
Transposition
Key Signatures

14
Scale Degrees
Chord Structure
Chord Inversion
Key Change
Composition Six

15
Chording Styles
Hand Changes
Partial Chords

16
Song Accompaniment
Composition SevenG MAJOR
17
Transposition
Key Signatures

18
Scale Degrees
Chord Structure
Chord Inversion
Ledger Lines

19
Dotted Quarter Notes
Composition Eight

20
Chording Styles
Song Accompaniment

21
Hand Changes
Expression
Composition Nine

MINOR
22
Major and Minor Chords
Chord Symbols
Scale Degrees
Key of C Chords

23
Three Pitch Chords
Any Triad, Any Key
Four Pitch Chords
Seventh Chords
Dominant Seventh
Basic Chord Types
Key of C 7th Chords
Altered Chords

24
Major and Minor Modes
Minor Chords
Scale Degrees
Harmonic Minor Scale

25
Perfect Fifths & Signatures
Circle of Fifths
Keys with Flats and Sharps
Composition Ten

About the author

Patricia Melcher Bissell

Summary

This book will facilitate meeting the Core Music Standards for grades 5 through 8, and the novice/intermediate Harmonizing Instruments Strand.

Product details

• Authors: Patricia Melcher Bissell, Patricia Melcher/ Bissell Bissell
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2017
• EAN: 9781475835427
• ISBN: 978-1-4758-3542-7
• No. of pages: 128
• Dimensions: 222 mm x 286 mm x 13 mm
• Assisted by: Brereton Wadsworth Bissell
• Series: National Association for Music Education
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music theory; EDUCATION / General, Education, Music, MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Appreciation, EDUCATION / Arts in Education, Teaching of a specific subject, Curriculum planning & development, Educational: Arts, general, Curriculum planning and development, Educational: Humanities and social sciences, general, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / Arts & Humanities, music;piano, Education / Educational sciences / Pedagogy, music; piano