This book follows Book 1 for all ages. New material includes Italian terms, Note & Rest values (eighths & up), Major scale pattern, Key signatures for G, D & A Major, Drawing intervals of 2nd through 5th, Note value rule (2 of a kind & 3 of a kind), Naturals & Arpeggios. Ear-training and analysis questions in every lesson.
This book follows Primer for the young students or it can be an entry level book for ages 8 & up. Material includes Facts from Primer, plus intervals of 2nds.
Beginning book for young students. Large staffs for small hands, fun alphabet activities, & introduction to naming open string notes on the Treble staff: G, D, A & E. Note values quarter through whole, time signatures, bar lines and writing counts.
Duplets, Dances of the Baroque suite, Secondary dominants, Major/minor/half-diminished 7th chords, and the Impressionistic period are a few of the new concepts introduced in this level. All books exactly follow the keyboard syllabus of the CM curriculum.
Higher level thinking skills continue to grow as students relate new information to knowledge already acquired. New facts (diminished 7th chord, Major circle of keys, & sonata-allegro form) appear frequently throughout.
Higher level thinking skills continue to grow as students relate new information to knowledge already acquired. New facts (diminished 7th chord, Major circle of keys, & sonata-allegro form) appear frequently throughout.
Minor/diminished/augmented intervals, Augmented triads, Minor scale degree names, Deceptive cadence, Double sharp/flat, 3/8 & 3/2 time signatures, Triad qualities in Major scale, Roman numerals in chord progressions, Time line with composers.
Activities (“Sound Alikes”, “Cross Out”, “Triad Towers”) continue to entertain yet challenge students’ reasoning skills. New facts (enharmonic equivalents, chromatic scale, ornaments, 1st inversion of V7, and melody writing) appear frequently throughout. Building upon analytic skills developed in previous books, students continue to probe new concepts in various applications, testing their abstract thinking skills.
This piano theory workbook features new materials including Minor intervals, Secondary triads, Transposition, Diminished triads, Dominant 7th chords, Parallel Major/minor keys, Music history periods, Imitation. Every lesson always contains multiple opportunities to review concepts in new applications.
This piano theory workbook includes musicianship activities to help the students think abstractly. New material includes: Note value order (16ths & up), Natural minor scale pattern, Interval qualities, Relative Major/minor keys, Alla breve time signature, Motive, Triplets. Sight-reading in every lesson.
This piano theory workbook features new materials including A & E major scales, Italian terms, 3 new key signatures, Repetition, Scale degree names, Authentic/Half/Plagal cadences, ‘a’ natural minor scale, 6/8 time signature, Sequence. The workbooks sequentially introduce fundamental concepts and provide enjoyable games (“War, “Rhythm Towers”, “Tic-Tac Thirds”) to prepare students to think theoretically.
This piano theory workbook features new material including Ledger lines, D Major scale, Primary triads, Note value rule (2 of a kind), Note value rule (3 of a kind), and Roman numerals. Sight-reading, ear training and analysis in every lesson of every book (Preparatory through Level 9).