Rhythm Reading: Elementary through Advanced

Rhythm Reading: Elementary through Advanced Training reduces the rhythms of Western music to a series of short, frequently encountered patterns. Each pattern is introduced in a step-by-step process that encourages students to read rhythms not as individual notes but as groups of notes. These groups then recur throughout the text in a variety of carefully graded exercises.

Preface

XV

Introduction

1

(4)

Rhythm and Pitch

1

(1)

Hints for Practicing

1

(1)

Conducting

2

(1)

Tempo Markings

3

(2)

UNIT I FUNDAMENTAL RHYTHM PATTERNS

5

(104)

Chapter 1 Simple Meter

7

(21)

Simple and Compound Meters

7

(1)

Time Signatures for Simple Meters

8

(1)

Simple Duple, Triple, and Quadruple Meters with a Quarter-Note Beat

9

(1)

Exercises

10

(14)

Quadruple meter

Half rest

Tie

Note endings

Duple meter

Triple meter

Augmentation dot

Whole note and whole-note rest

Beaming

Common time

Whole-measure rest

Meter changes

Composite meters

Conducting in 5/4 (2+3)

Conducting in 5/4 (3+2)

Conducting in 7/4

Canon

Hocket

Self-Test on Written Concepts

24

(2)

Recommended Listening

26

(2)

Chapter 2 Compound Meter

28

(14)

Time Signatures for Compound Meters

28

(3)

Compound Duple, Triple, and Quadruple Meters with a Dotted Quarter-Note Beat

31

(1)

Exercises

31

(9)

One beat per measure

Beaming over rests

The % sign

Retrograde canon

Self-Test on Written Concepts

40

(1)

Recommended Listening

41

(1)

Chapter 3 Simple Meter: Quarter-Note Beat

42

(15)

Exercises

42

(13)

Anacrusis

Multi-measure rests

Inverted dotting

Double dotting

Measured tremolo

Augmentation canon

Self-Test on Written Concepts

55

(2)

Chapter 4 Compound Meter: Dotted Quarter-Note Beat

57

(10)

Exercises

57

(9)

One beat per measure

Measured tremolo

Split measures

Self-Test on Written Concepts

66

(1)

Chapter 5 Simple Meter: Half-Note Beat

67

(13)

Equivalent Cells

67

(1)

Exercises

68

(11)

Double whole note; double whole rest

Alla breve

Hypermeter

Diminution canon

Self-Test on Written Concepts

79

(1)

Chapter 6 Compound Meter: Dotted Half-Note Beat

80

(11)

Equivalent Cells

80

(1)

Exercises Hypermeter

81

(9)

Self-Test on Written Concepts

90

(1)

Chapter 7 Simple Meter: Eighth-Note Beat

91

(10)

Equivalent Cells

91

(1)

Exercises XXX

92

(8)

Self-Test on Written Concepts

100

(1)

Chapter 8 Compound Meter: Dotted Eighth-Note Beat

101

(8)

Equivalent Cells

101

(1)

Exercises

102

(6)

Self-Test on Written Concepts

108

(1)

UNIT II IRREGULAR DIVISION OF THE BEAT

109

(32)

Chapter 9 Simple Meter: All Beat Values

111

(16)

Introduction to Irregular Division of the Beat

111

(2)

Quarter-Note Beat

113

(1)

Exercises

113

(7)

Triplets

Quintuplets

Sextuplets

Septuplets

Irregular division with measured tremolo

Half-Note Beat

120

(1)

Exercises

121

(2)

Eighth-Note Beat

123

(1)

Exercises

123

(2)

Self-Test on Written Concepts

125

(2)

Chapter 10 Compound Meter: All Beat Values

127

(14)

Irregular Division of the Beat in Compound Meter

127

(1)

Dotted Quarter-Note Beat

128

(1)

Exercises

128

(4)

Duplets

Quadruplets

Quintuplets

Septuplets

Dotted Half-Note Beat

132

(1)

Exercises

133

(3)

Dotted Eighth-Note Beat

136

(1)

Exercises

137

(1)

Self-Test on Written Concepts

138

(3)

UNIT III SYNCOPATION

141

(42)

Chapter 11 Simple Meter: Quarter-Note Beat

143

(13)

Introduction to Syncopation

143

(2)

Exercises

145

(9)

Cross rhythms: superduplet

Supertriplet

Less common cross rhythms

"Four against three"

"Three against four"

"Two against five"

Self-Test on Written Concepts

154

(1)

Recommended Listening

155

(1)

Chapter 12 Compound Meter: All Beat Values

156

(11)

Dotted Quarter-Note Beat

156

(1)

Exercises Hemiola

156

(4)

Dotted Half-Note Beat

160

(1)

Exercises

160

(2)

Dotted Eighth-Note Beat

162

(1)

Exercises

162

(3)

Self-Test on Written Concepts

165

(2)

Chapter 13 Simple Meter: Half-Note Beat; Eighth-Note Beat

167

(16)

Half-Note Beat

167

(1)

Exercises

168

(6)

Eighth-Note Beat

174

(1)

Exercises

174

(6)

Self-Test on Written Concepts

180

(3)

UNIT IV EXCERPTS FROM MUSIC LITERATURE

183

(34)

Chapter 14 Excerpts in Traditional Meters

185

(8)

Exercises Rhythmic alteration in Baroque music

185

(8)

Chapter 15 More Challenging Excerpts in Traditional Meters

193

(10)

Exercises

193

(10)

Chapter 16 Excerpts in Nontraditional Meters

203

(14)

Composite Meter

203

(1)

Exercises

204

(4)

Double Meter

208

(1)

Exercises

208

(1)

Unusual Beat Units

209

(1)

Exercises Longa

209

(1)

Metric Modulation

210

(1)

Exercises

211

(1)

Polymetric Music

212

(1)

Exercises

212

(1)

Ametric Music

213

(1)

Exercises

214

(2)

Self-Test on Written Concepts

216

(1)

Appendix A Special Rhythmic Symbols in Twentieth-Century Music

217

(2)

Appendix B Rhythm Cells

219

(2)

Simple Meter

219

(1)

Compound Meter

220

(1)

Appendix C Recommended Speech Cues

221

(2)

Simple Meter

221

(1)

Compound Meter

222

(1)

Glossary of Musical Terms

223

(2)

Acknowledgments

225

(2)

Index

227

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