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."