The Language of Music

Becoming a professional musician , i.e., being a musician major, is difficult! The student

must take many music and non-music classes, attend rehearsals, practice privately,

and learn to efficiently manage time. (Just think of all those zero or one credit

classes–marching band–that consume so many hours of the day and week!) All

this is done while learning to communicate in a whole new language, the language of

music.

The Language of Music (Fundamentals) is designed to teach the “vocabulary” of

music through repetition and practice, just as someone might learn a foreign

language, such as Italian or German, through “emersion.” In this book, there are

typically two or more of each type of exercise so that one can be used for in-class

instruction, and another assigned as homework.