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The Literate Musician: How to Hear, Speak, Think, Read and Write the Language of Music
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The Literate Musician: How to Hear, Speak, Think, Read and Write the Language of Music
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***REVISED 2ND EDITION***
Musician, educator, and creator of
Andy Mullen has created a guide for self-starting musicians to learn to hear, think, speak read and write
Based on the pedagogy of Dr. Edwin E. Gordon's Music Learning Theory, this long overdue book contains:
*A concise overview and sequential guide for how to learn to audiate
*Tonal patterns and rhythm patterns which form the basis of a musician's musical vocabulary
*An overview of all tonalities and meters
*Explanations of how to improvise within a tonal or rhythmic context
*How to read all of the musical patterns one has already learned to think and speak
*10 Reading Sequences and over 25 Reading Benchmarks which combine tonal and rhythm patterns into "real" music
is an ideal workbook for music students aged 10 to 100.
The revised second edition contains additional rhythm functions (division/elongations, rests, ties, upbeats), a unit on subdominant, instrumental connections, music theory connections, an updated order, and guidance on navigating the book.