SECTION!: AGUIDE TOMUSIC FUNDAMENTALS 3 Musical Notation and Pitch 4 Duration of Notes and Rests (Also Meter) 9 Key Signatures-Major and Minor Scales 17 Form and Expression Marks 25 Intervals and Two-Part Harmony 29 Transposition 33 Triads-Chords 36 Chord Progressions 42 Chord Building Chart 43 Chromatic Fingering Chart (Guitar) 44 SECTION II: AGUIDE TOMUSIC HISTORY 45 The Pre-Renaissance Period (Before 1450) 46 TheRenaissance Period (1450to1600) 49 Giovanni-Pierluigi da Palestrina (1524 to 1594) 50 TheBaroque Period (1600to1750) 52 Some General Characteristics of Baroque Music 53 Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 to 1750) 54 George Frederic Handel (1685 to 1759) 56 The Classical Period (1750 to 1825) 58 Some General Characteristics of Classical Music 59 Franz Joseph Haydn (1732 to 1809) 60 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 to 1791) 62 Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770 to 1827) 64 TheRomantic Period (1825to1900) 66 Some General Characteristics of Romantic Music 67 Franz Schubert (1797 to 1828) 68 Felix Mandelssohn (1809 to 1847) 70 Frederic Chopin (1810 to 1849) 72 Johann Strauss Jr. (1825 to 1899) 73 Franz Liszt (1811 to 1886) 74 Johannes Brahms (1833 to 1897) 76 Peter Ilitch Tschaikovsky (1840 to 1893) 78 Anton Dvorak (1841 to 1904) 80 The Impressionist Period (Approx. 1885 to 1910) 83 Claude Debussy (1862 to 1918) 84 TheContemporary Period (l900toPresent) 87 Some General Characteristics of Contemporary Music 87 George Gershwin (1898 to 1937) 88 Aaron Copland (1900 to ) 90 Dmitri Shostakovich (1906 to 1975) 91 Into theNext Century 92 SECTION III: AMUSICAL DICTIONARY 94
