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Schirmer Pronouncing Pocket Manual of Musical Terms » (5TH)
Authors: Theodore Baker (Editor), Laura Kuhn, Nicolas Slonimsky (Revised by), Laura Kuhn
ISBN-13: 9780825672231, ISBN-10: 0825672236
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Omnibus Press
Date Published: December 1995
Edition: 5TH
Author Biography: Theodore Baker
Book Synopsis
This handy guide has been expanded and adapted to cover all facets of music to meet the changing needs of today's musician. All of the latest musical terms, musical instruments, and performers have been added to this edition.
Laura Kuhn is director of the John Cage Trust, assisted in the compilation of the eighth edition of "Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians" and the fifth edition of "Music Since 1900."
Table of Contents
| Preface | vii |
| Introduction | ix |
| Elements of Notation | ix |
| Notes and Rests | ix |
| The Staff | x |
| The Clefs | x |
| The Scales | xi |
| Chromatic Signs | xiii |
| The Intervals | xiii |
| Diatonic Intervals of the Major Scale | xiii |
| All Standard Intervals and Their Inversions | xiv |
| The Keys | xv |
| Chords | xvi |
| Time Signatures | xvii |
| Rules for Pronouncing German, French, and Italian | xviii |
| Comparative Table of Tempo Marks | xxi |
| Musical Terms | 1 |
| Noteworthy Musicians | 265 |
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