Publisher's Synopsis
Music Theory is Fun Book 3, is the third in the five-book series by Maureen Cox, newly revised to include North American 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:
- Major & minor key signatures 4 sharps or flats
- Harmonic and melodic minor scales
- Degrees of the scale, intervals, tonic triads
- Simple and compound time signatures
- Grouping notes & rests
- Transposition at the octave
- More than two ledger lines
- Writing four-bar rhythms, anacrusis
- Phrases
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.
