The Complete Piano Player Theory Book

POLDI ZEITLIN & DAVID GOLDBERGER

THE COMPLETE PIANO PLAYER

THEORY BOOK

Piano Music Book

One of the most enjoyable ways ever devised for pianists to learn musical theory. Easy-to-follow text with clear examples. You start at the beginning and advance to the point where you can harmoniza and play satisfactory piano accompaniments to familiar tunes. You aer also prepared for a deeper study of harmony, counterpoint and fugue. Includes self-test work sheets.

Lessons in Part 1:

• The Musical Alphabet and Keyboard
• Some Notes and Their Time Values
• Time Signatures and Bars
• Understanding Notation
• The Grand Stave
• Rests
• Some New Notes
• Sharps
• Flats
• Quavers
• Curved Lines and Dots
• Some More Signs and Italian Works
• More New Notes
• Upbeats
• Review Work Sheet

Lessons in Part 2:

• Tones and Semitones
• Ledger Lines
• Scales
• Scale Degrees and Tetrachods
• Writing the Major Scale
• Dotted Crotchet
• Intervals
• Six Eight Time
• Key Signatures
• Major Triads
• Some More Intervals
• Semiquavers
• Tonic and Dominant
• Harmonising Melodies
• Review Work Sheet