Publisher's Synopsis
Music Theory is Fun Book 4, is the fourth 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 5 sharps or flats
- Alto clef
- Chromatic scale, double sharps & flats
- Technical names of notes in the diatonic scale
- Simple & compound time, duple, triple, quadruple
- Primary triads, tonic, subdominant & dominant
- Diatonic intervals up to an octave
- Ornaments
- Four-bar rhythms and rhythms to words
- Orchestral instruments and their clefs
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.
