The Everything Essential Music Theory Book: A Guide to the Fundamentals of Reading, Writing, and Understanding Music

by Marc Schonbrun

Master musical skills quickly and easily!

From classical music to new age, hard rock, and pop, music has always played an important role in everyday life. Whether you're an intermediate musician or an aspiring music major, The Everything Essential Music Theory Book is a guide to mastering one of the most important tools for every musician: musical understanding. This compact, portable volume covers all the basics, including: With each clear and easy-to-understand chapter, musician and educator Marc Schonbrun takes you through the essentials of music theory--the very glue that holds music together.

Genres: Music, Unfinished, Nonfiction

288 pages, Paperback

First published August 8, 2014

Reviews

[Scott Lupo · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great start to learning music theory. I only have cursory knowledge on the subject but this book put a ton in perspective for me. I am a self-taught, youtube learner so you can imagine the separate pieces of knowledge I accrued over the years. This book brought it all together with tons of new information for me. Had quite a bit of a-ha moments. Some of it is still foreign to me but practice will make it better (I know: practice, practice, practice...then practice some more; 10,000 hours here I come!).

[William Yip · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book taught many aspects of music theory from the basics of time signatures and note values to more advanced topics such as modes and transposition. Though the book did not teach about articulations and symbols, this book is great for getting beginners quickly up to speed with the fundamentals of music theory.

[Stacy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Readable and straightforward. This book is a good refresher or introduction to music theory. It is helpful to have a piano or keyboard nearby while reading.

[Van · Rating 5 out of 5]

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I especially recommend this for beginners and those who need a quick refresher. It is well written and,thus,very readable. Excellent.