Music Theory is Fun
Book 5
, is the fifth and last in the newly revised five-book series by
Maureen Cox
. 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:
Key signatures to 7 sharps or flats
Tenor clef and scales
Compound intervals: major, minor, perfect, diminished & augmented
Irregular time signatures, quintuple & septuple
Tonic, super-tonic, subdominant & dominant chords
Writing at concert pitch
Short & open score
Orchestral instruments
Composing a melody
Perfect, imperfect & plagal cadences.
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.