Covers everything novice musicians and lifelong learners need to know. Full of music trivia, music history, comprehensive instruction and visual aids, music symbols, and chords throughout. This is a crash course in music theory that even professionals will enjoy.

Explains the technical fundamentals of musical terminology, concepts, and principles; offers musical examples of scales, chords, intervals, and rhythms; and provides aural exercises for ear training and transcription skills.

Characters from Frozen introduce musical notes, rhythm, chords, time signatures, and more.

This dissertation research aims to contribute to sustainability education through implementing a curriculum designed to improve the relationship between humans and the natural world. The curriculum, titled Composing Music Inspired by Nature , provides piano teachers with the means to instruct their students in composing music inspired by experiences in the natural world. The objective of the research was to learn what piano teachers thought and felt...

Expert guitarist and instructor Desi Serna walks you through the music theory concepts you need to understand to expand your musical horizons. From deciphering the mysteries of the fretboard to adapting chord progressions to a song's key, you'll master techniques that will help you move past simple, three-chord songs to more complex and creative pieces. Build on your existing knowledge of open and barre chords and simple progressions with practical...