Cengage Advantage: A Creative Approach to Music Fundamentals

A CREATIVE APPROACH TO MUSIC FUNDAMENTALS, Advantage Edition, 11th Edition is a reader-friendly, creative text that focuses on music fundamentals through written and aural exercises. In addition, the text strives to teach students how to create music through learning rhythm, melody, scales, intervals, and triads.

Introduction. 1. The Basics of Music. 2. The Keyboard. 3. Rhythm I: Simple Meter. 4. Rhythm II: Compound Meter. 5. Pitch. 6. Major Scales. 7. Major Key Signatures. 8. Intervals. 9. Minor Key Signatures. 10. Minor Scales. 11. Pentatonic and Blues Scales. 12. Triads. 13. Triads in a Musical Context. 14. Chord Progressions. 15. Writing a Song. Appendices. Glossary. Subject Index. Index to Musical Examples.