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Music Notation and Theory for Intelligent Beginners by Jono Kornfeld

 

Book Cover (2MB)

Inside Cover & TOC

 

COMPLETE TEXT

COMPLETE EXERCISE PAGES

 

 

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Relative major and minor scales

The overtone series

More on Intervals

Applications for intervals

Theory II Review

Chord progressions

a long explanation

Chord Progressions

   – Major Keys

Chord Progressions

   – Minor Keys

Harmonic Functions

7th Chords

7th Chords Supplement

Labeling Inversions

Figured Bass Supplement

Melody

Melodic Analysis: Over The Rainbow

 

Four part harmony

audio example 1

audio example 2

(with nonchord tones)

Four part exercise

 

Piano Scale Fingerings

 

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Basic Pitch Exercises

Compound Meter and Syncopation practice

Figured Bass Exercises

Score of Bartok's Two Dialogues 

mp3 of Bartok's Two Dialogues

 

Staff Paper

 

12 staves      10 staves      9 staves