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"Begin your musical journey with Anna, Elsa, Olaf, Kristoff, and Sven. You'll celebrate music from the world of Frozen while learning first musical concepts. Learn about notes, rhythm, chords, time signatures, and more with favorite Frozen characters. Full-color illustrations and hands-on activities engage readers in exploring fundamental musical concepts, an important component of STEAM education"--Provided by publisher.

Explores the inner workings of music, discussing intervals, tonality, scales and modes, chords and chord voicings, tempo, rhythm, computers and MIDI, improvisation, composition, pitch ranges and transpositions, and symbols and expressions.

Explains the author's belief that the human capacity for music-making and the enjoyment in music is an inevitable consequence of the way the human brain seeks out patterns, forming interpretations and setting up expectations.

Examines musicality from a dancer's point of view, discussing dynamics, timing, rhythmic patterns, pitch, scales, melody, harmony, texture, timbre, instruments, score reading, and form and compositional procedures, as well as muscle memory and choreography. Also provides reference guides for dancers on recommended listening and reading, and choreography workshops.

Explains how music is put together and written down, discussing concepts such as note lengths, harmony and ornamentation, and rhythms; presenting information about music periods and the development of instruments; and including test questions on key skills.

This book takes the reader on a tour of music and musical instruments from all over the world, from the ancient zithers of the East to the latest in synthesizer technology.

Introduces new players to the body of the piano and the reading of music and presents illustrated, step-by-step instructions for playing, providing songs as well as tips to make learning fun.

An introduction to the musical concepts of rhythm, timbre, melody and dynamics, with projects designed to promote better understanding of each concept.