The Basic Guide to How to Read Music

by Helen Cooper and Helen Cooper

Book Overview

The Basic Guide to How to Read Music will teach you the principles of reading music in staff notation quickly and painlessly. If you could once read music but have forgotten how, it will refresh your memory. It contains all the terms and symbols you are likely to come across when studying music and explains them fully. Helen Cooper explains the written language of music in greater detail than you might get from your teacher. This book is ideal for...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0399511229
• ISBN13: 9780399511226
• Release Date: May 1985
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Length: 82 Pages
• Weight: 0.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 7.0" x 9.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Does what it says

I had learned how to read music and music theory decades ago when I played piano. Now learning the trombone, I needed a refresher. Written for the absolute beginner, this book walks you through reading music and music theory in easy to understand language. No matter the instrument, the information in this book will get you started.

Just what I needed

I give this book 5 stars because it is exactly what I was looking for while learning to play guitar. I didn't study music through high school so a lot of the concepts of music escaped me.I have another book full of tests to challenge your memory as you work your way through (with a CD) but found it lenghty. If you are wanting to learn to read music and are after an easy to access, easy to read, easy to understand book explaining all the symbols you are likely to encounter ... then this is it.80 pages of straight to the point explanations with examples (not just definitions). Best used in conjunction with learning an instruement. If you have access to a keyboard (piano), then your learning will accelerate.

The mystery unravels at last!

Reading music was always something of a mysterious art to me. This book really clarifies it and makes it seem possible for me to sight-read in my lifetime!

Very good, easy to use book.

I found this to be a very good book to learn the basics of how to read music. I sing in a choir and always had a hard time following the music in the sheet music books. The book helped a great deal, and I only wish that it contained a bit more instruction.. but I think that for less than ten bucks, it's a great deal.