Publisher's Synopsis
Music Theory is Fun Books 1 to 5, is the newly revised series by Maureen Cox. Using an attractive layout with clear examples and illustrations together with activities to reinforce learning and understanding, the books cover in an easy step-by-step approach:
- notes, rests, simple, compound and irregular time signatures
- beaming and grouping of notes and rests
- tones, semitones, keyboard, clefs and key signatures
- all major, relative harmonic and melodic minor keys
- scales - major, minor (ascending - descending) and chromatic
- major, minor, perfect, augmented and diminished intervals
- open and closed chords, root, 1st and 2nd inversions
- perfect, imperfect and plagal cadences
- ornaments - acciaccatura, appoggiatura, mordents turns and trills
- instruments of the orchestra, concert pitch and clef chart
- transposition - hints and rules
- short and open scores
- composing a melody and writing rhythms
In response to popular demand, Maureen Cox has added at the end of each book a collection of puzzles and quizzes and a set of ten one-page tests of questions typically encountered in exams.
This book gives you the answers to those puzzles, quizzes and test questions.
