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Gary Ewer's Easy Music Theory CD-ROM Course Table of Contents |
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Lesson |
Title |
Some section titles include... |
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1 |
The Grand Staff |
Music on the Staff; Drawing Clefs... |
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2 |
Notes |
Writing Notes; Naming Notes in the Treble Clef; How Notes got Their Names... |
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3 |
The Keyboard |
Introduction to the Keyboard; Middle C; Naming the Black Notes... |
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4 |
Note Durations |
Note Durations; Musical Mathematics... |
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5 |
Note Durations, Part 2 |
Note Flags; Note Beams; Note Stem Direction... |
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6 |
Measures (Bars) |
Measures; Time Signatures... |
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7 |
Small Intervals |
What is an Interval? Semitones; Whole Tones... |
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8 |
Major Scales |
Writing a Major Scale; Descending Scales... |
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9 |
Key Signatures |
The Order of Flats; The Order of Sharps; Identifying the Key... |
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10 |
Intervals |
Intervals; Interval Quality ... |
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11 |
Inverting Intervals |
Inverting Intervals; Simplifying Inverting Intervals... |
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12 |
Minor Scales |
The Three types of Minor Scales; Double-Sharps and Double-Flats... |
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13 |
Time Signatures |
Simple Time Signatures; Compound Time Signatures... |
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14 |
Measure Completion |
Three Steps to Measure Completion ... |
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15 |
Tonic/Dominant Triads |
Building Chords on Notes of the Scale; Dominant Triads; The Important Dominant Triad Rule... |
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16 |
Key Identification |
Establish the Key Signature; Look for the Leading Tone... |
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17 |
Triads/Roman Numerals |
Four Kinds of Triads; Roman Numerals; Minor Keys... |
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18 |
Octave Transposition |
Transposing Up One Octave; Transposing Down One Octave... |
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19 |
Triplets/Other Tuplets |
The Triplet; Other Odd Groupings; Filling in the Missing Tuplet... |
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20 |
Key Transposition |
The Three Methods of Transposition; Atonal Music... |
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21 |
Triad Inversions |
Two Major Inversions... |
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22 |
Cadences |
Music Takes a rest; The Authentic Cadence; The Perfect Authentic Cadence... |
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23 |
Modes |
The Seven Modes; Why Use Modes?... |
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24 |
Other Clefs |
The Alto Clef; The Tenor Clef; Why Other Clefs?... |
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25 |
Score Formats |
The Short Score; The Full score, or Open Score... |
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Each lesson consists of a text lesson, a compresensive set of worksheets to help cement the concepts you're learning, a quiz, so that you can be sure you know what you've learned, and of course the 25 computer videos of Gary actually teaching each lesson. Click [here] for a brief video demo (note that the resolution of this demo has been reduced for easier web access). The course starts off with the basics, but as you can see, by the time you've completed Lesson 25, you really know your stuff! |
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