Foundations of Music and Musicianship (with CD-ROM) Damschroder, David A.

Product Description Be an active participant in the learning process with FOUNDATIONS OF MUSIC AND MUSICIANSHIP with accompanying CD-ROM! The many activities in this book, along with the accompanying CD-ROM, will help you learn the fundamental concepts of music theory so that you can read and make music from written notation. Interactive computer-based exercises to complement each chapter, special tutorials for note reading and key signatures, exercises, and glossary terms are just a few of the tools that will help you succeed. Review "This text strikes a balance between teaching goals for non-music majors as well as those for music majors who need thorough review; i.e., the text gets into harmonic analysis very much in line with what most college undergraduate music majors do.""The strengths of this text are many. I find the prose and explanations to be exceptional in both writing style and clarity, a rarity in elementary music texts. The examples are well chosen and are based on tunes familiar to the majority of students: again, this is not always the case! On a more specific level, I am pleased with the way intervals are presented; they are tied exclusively to diatonic scales and not discussed as abstract pairs of pictures, which is infinitely more instructive to the student.""I think my students will find the new edition even more user friendly--it explains things very clearly and moves forward at a more even pace. There is a good mix of exercises, examples, and helpful hints." About the Author David Damschroder teaches music theory at the University of Minnesota. He is author of LISTEN AND SING (Schirmer) and the forthcoming AN ESSAY ON HARMONIC ANALYSIS.