Escalas a Simple Vista

Publisher Marketing: Al fin, un libro de escalas que fue escrito con los estudiantes, y no con los maestros, en mente! En "Escalas a simple vista" Clea Saal, una dislexica a la cual el pentagrama le parecia particularmente frustrante, reemplaza la tediosa tarea de memorizar incontables escalas con un metodo visual que resulta increiblemente simple, uno que permite reducir la estructura de la escala mas compleja a algo que puede ser comprendido por un alumno en su primera clase de musica. Si bien este libro fue escrito con los principiantes en mente, cabe senalar que el sistema que utiliza tambien les puede proporcionar un alivio inesperado a aquellos estudiantes mas experimentados, ya que les permitira visualizar en forma instantanea todos los modos de cualquier escala, y tambien les proporcionara una herramienta eficaz que les permitira comprender la estructura de aquellas escalas ajenas a la musica occidental. A pesar de su brevedad, este libro cubre diversos temas. Parte literalmente de cual es la definicion de la palabra 'nota' y llega hasta los sistemas microtonales... y lo hace en una forma que resulta perfectamente accesible para quienes no estan familiarizados, o no se sienten del todo comodos, con la notacion musical tradicional. De hecho, con la relativa excepcion de un capitulo dedicado a dicha notacion, una de las principales caracteristicas de este libro es precisamente que el pentagrama brilla por su ausencia. Contributor Bio:  Saal, Clea Under duress Clea Saal has confessed to being born on this planet, though she insists she is not certain whether or not that would have been her first choice if anyone had bothered to ask for her opinion on the matter. She was born at an early age somewhere in the Southern hemisphere, though she was dragged to the other side of the Equator by her parents when she was only a few years old, and has been playing equatorial ping-pong ever since. She began writing when she was six and, to some people's annoyance, she hasn't stopped yet. She endured twelve years of basic education --make that thirteen, she did flunk once-- and then by reason of tradition, masochism or insanity, she went back for more and eventually earned a degree in English Literature. The day she finally graduated most professors in her department literally cried for joy. She claims to have been surrounded by books ever since she can remember. She saw them, smelled them, chewed them, tore them to pieces, scribbled on them, heard her mother reading them to her, and, when she got a little older, she read them herself. She also had quite a few books thrown at her. Under the circumstances, becoming a writer seemed to her like a logical next step.