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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.
About the author
Maureen Cox is the author of the original
THEORY IS FUN books - a series of five books popular among students and teachers for more than 25 years. That series is also published in North America by FJH Music under the title
BLAST OFF WITH MUSIC THEORY. She is also the author of
HARMONY IS FUN, presenting harmony at the keyboard in a step-by-step, straightforward way that is fun without being frivolous.
Maureen has now republished her 5-book series under the title
MUSIC THEORY IS FUN. In response to requests from her readers, she has added to each book, puzzles, quizzes and
10 one-page tests of questions typically encountered in examinations.
Maureen Cox is an enthusiastic and gifted teacher who inspires her students to experience to joy and love she has for her subject.
