Publisher's Synopsis
Music Theory is Fun Book 1, is the first in the newly revised five-book series by Maureen Cox that now also includes American musical terms. Using an attractive layout with clear examples and illustrations together with activities to reinforce learning and understanding, this book covers in an easy step-by-step approach:
- Treble clef, bass clef, notes and letter names
- Time names and values
- Dotted notes, tied notes and rests
- Accidentals, tones and semitones
- Key signatures and scales
- Degrees of the scale, intervals and tonic triads
- Time signatures and bar lines
- Writing music and answering rhythms
At the end of the book there is a dictionary of musical terms and signs. In response to popular demand, Maureen Cox has added a new feature: a collection of puzzles and quizzes and a set of ten one-page tests of questions typically encountered in exams. A separate book of answers to the puzzles, quizzes and test questions is available.
