"CHORDIALLY YOURS" - By: Dale J. Miller and Charles P. Cabell Jr. - This is a book about harmony: how tones are combined to make chords. But it is not a "chord book". A chord book simply lists all of the common (and sometimes not so common) combinations of tones that have been given recognizable chord names such as "C-seventh" and "D-flat minor". What we have tried to do here through text and exercises is to teach the reader how to build and recognize chords with great fluency. If you have never studied music before, this is a great place to start because it takes you from notes to scales to keys to chords to music analysis; and does so with a light, non-professional touch. Even if you are a music professional, there is much in this book you may have missed along the way that is well worth reviewing.

Chapter Headings: **The Hammers of Pythagoras (Origin and construction of the major scale) **A Musical Primer (includes intervals) **Music Notation **An Introduction to Keys as Tone Centers **More About Intervals **Using the Sharps **Using the Flats **Triads: Good Things Come in Threes **The Seventh: "King of Chords" **Discovering Your Roots (finding the root of the chord) **Introduction to Four-Part Harmony **Introduction to Figured Bass **Dominance/Dominants **Back to the Minors (minor keys) **Making a Chord "Map" **Using the Chord Map **Answers to Exercises

ISBN 1-893180-04-2, Copyright 2000 - $39.95 - 221 pages, soft cover, GBC bound, illustrated.

"THAT'S WHAT CHRISTMAS MEANS TO ME" - Words, music and 4-part (SATB) choral arrangement by: Charles P. Cabell Jr. - Piano arrangement by: Daniel S. Brink - (As Performed by Colorado Springs Chorale, December 1999) - "Crackling sounds of yule log burning, Shiny tinsel on the tree, Glowing faces of the children, As they sit on Santa's knee; Lilting peals of laughter, Ringing to the rafters, That's what Christmas means to me..." - A "gentle and nostalgic" Christmas piece, Copyright 1999. - $1.50 - Cassette available - TIME: 3:50.

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