Music First

Music First! is an introduction to the fundamentals of music for students who are beginning their formal music education. The premise of the book is that intellectual understanding of music should follow direct experience -- that music should come first! Thus, the study of fundamentals is combined with considerable experience in music reading to get the student involved with music through performance. Other forms of musical involvement such as listening, composing, and some formal ear training are suggested in the text and the individual instructor can select from these musical experiences according to the level of the class and his/her own tastes.