Elementary Music Theory: Book 3

Written for ages 5 and 6 My First Piano Adventure captures the child's playful spirit. Fun-filled songs rhythm games and technique activities develop beginning keyboard skills. Three distinguishing features of the Lesson Book A make it unique and effective for the young 5-6 year old beginner. 1. A strong focus on technique embedded in the book through playful technique games chants and carefully-composed pieces that gently lead the child into pianistic motions. 2. An outstanding CD for the young student to listen sing tap and play along with at the piano. The orchestrated songs on the CD feature children singing the lyrics which has great appeal to the 5-6 year old beginner. The CD becomes a ready-made practice partner that guides the student and parent for all the pieces and activities in the books. 3. The fanciful art features five multi-cultural children who are also learning to play. These friends at the piano introduce basic rhythms white key names and a variety of white and black-key songs that span classical folk and blues. Young students will listen sing create and play more musically with Nancy and Randall Faber's My First Piano Adventure Lesson Book A. The Lesson Book introduces directional pre-reading elementary music theory and technique with engaging songs games and creative discovery at the keyboard. Young students will enjoy the multi-cultural ?friends at the piano? who introduce white-key names basic rhythms and a variety of songs which span classical folk and blues. Ear-training and eye-training are also part of the curriculum. The Fabers' instructional theory ?ACE? - Analysis Creativity and Expression guides the pedagogy of My First Piano Adventure.Analysis leads to understanding creativity leads to self-discovery and expression develops personal artistry. The CD for this book offers a unique listening experience with outstanding orchestrations and vocals. The recordings demonstrate a key principle of the

Learn the nuances of music notation and create professional looking scores. This reference presents a comprehensive look at contemporary music notation. You will learn the meaning and stylistic practices for many types of notation that are currently in common use from traditional staffs to lead sheets to guitar tablature. It discusses hundreds of notation symbols as well as general guidelines for writing music.Berklee College of Music brings together teachers and students from all over the world and we use notation in a great variety of ways. This book presents our perspectives on notation: what we have found to be the most commonly used practices in today'smusic industry and what seems to be serving our community best. It includes a foreword by Matthew Nicholl who was a long-time chair of Berklee's Contemporary Writing and Production Department.Whether you find yourself in a Nashville recording studio Hollywood sound stage grand concert hall worship choir loft or elementary school auditorium this book will help you to create readable professional publication-quality notation. Beyond understanding the standard rules and definitions you will learn to make appropriate choices for your own work and generally how to achieve clarity and consistency in your notation so that it best serves your music.

Suitable for young beginners this book by S. J. Townshend provides short exercises in the elementary rudiments of music including questions on clefs and staves notes and values accidentals rests tones and semitones introduction to major scales key signatures tonic triads time-signatures and musical terms.

Later Elementary Level-Accent on Majors is a collection of 7 Gillock originals. It functions as a theory workbook that will ensure a better understanding of each of the major keys. Prefaced before each piece is its scale and the chords and cadences of the key. The student is also required to write in the key signature before beginning each piece. Titles: 'Dance the Waltz' 'Pixies' 'Children Skating' 'Christmas Tree Parade' 'In Sunny Spain' 'On a Quiet Lake' and 'Drums and Trumpets'.

The Theory Gymnastics: Spirito Teacher Guide is the essential companion for the teacher of theory and ear-training using the Spirito student workbook. Featuring all the necessary information for the teacher this guide will help you to teach the Theory Gymnastics curriculum more efficiently and effectively. Spirito is the level B resource for students aged around 8 to 11 and is the slightlymore advanced progression from the Animato workbook. The level of theory here involves all major and minor five-finger patterns chords elementary rhythms and beginning musical terms. The content is similar to the Energicoworkbook but Spirito is more targeted towards an older beginner with specific activities and puzzles that will engage a student approaching teenage years. This Teacher Guide contains all youwill need to teach these concepts alongside the student workbook such as an answer key notated listening examples and reproducible theory and ear-training testing resources. The creative and imaginative student workbook makeslearning more entertaining while this well-organised and comprehensive Teacher Guide makes teaching what is ordinarily a difficult subject simple and easy. So pick up this Teacher Guidetoday for the best in flexible engaging and varied approaches to teaching students theory and ear-training. To help you get the most out of the book you can access free audio recordings for the ear-training units at the KjosMusic Company website.

This elementary-level book is carefully structured to help students learn their theory in the most beneficial way - by playing writing and combining it with ear training at the same time!Students are asked to write answers to theory examples play them and then reinforce each concept with ear training. The manageable task size and format of each unit makes progress immediately noticeable which helps motivate students.Includes a CD that can be used at the lesson or at home to further reinforce students' knowledge.

The Perfect Way To Rediscover The Piano-Did you used to play the piano' Would you like to play again' Play it again: Piano uses real pieces from the piano repertoire to teach specific techniques and tips getting you playing fluently once again. This is the second book which is for the more confident 'former' piano player or for those continuing their journey from Book 1. The level of pieces in this second book progresses from around UK grades 5 to 8 (intermediate to late advanced). 'I used to play the piano''Aimed at 'returning' players who have spent some time away from the keyboard Play it again: Piano gives you the confidence to revisit this fulfilling pastime and go beyond what you previously thoughtyou could achieve.Each of the 21 pieces in Book 2 is accompanied by two full pages of easy-to-understand practice tips all designed to get your fingers speeding comfortably across the keys once again! There are more comprehensive Piano Technique and Theory sections at the front and back of each book so you can also delve deeper to regain a fuller understanding of music and technique. A refresher course for all abilities each book is arranged in 4 progressive sections with Book 1 moving from 'Elementary' to 'Intermediate' and Book 2 taking you from 'Late Intermediate' to 'Late Advanced'. Dip in and out wherever your level of playing suits: this two-book course starts with simple and elegant miniatures and concludes with the famously showy Prelude in C-sharp minor by Rachmaninoff! Confident pianists could start with Book 2 but there is a wealth of delightful repertoire and valuable practice tips in Book 1 it's always useful to go 'back to basics'. From Schumann to shuffles. Baroque Classical and Romantic works sit alongside Jazz Ragtime contemporary or traditional pieces at every level so each lesson brings something different and you'll learn to play in a range of styles some of which may be new to your fingers. If you often find yourself saying 'I used to play the piano'' but wish you still did then Play it again:

The second volume of Theory Exercises by S. J. Townshend. Suitable for young beginners this book provides short exercises in the elementary rudiments of music including questions on ledger lines major and minor scales key signatures tonic triads compound time-signatures intervals and Italian terms.

The three books are published separately although the author firmly believed that melodic movement and harmonic progression should always be studied side by side. Book 2 teaches elementary harmonic progressions to use with your composed melodies. The books employ exercises in counterpoint in figured-bass harmony and in the roman-numeral inversion analysis.

Description Suitable for young beginners, this book by S. J. Townshend, provides short exercises in the elementary rudiments of music including questions on clefs and staves, notes and values, accidentals, rests, tones and semitones, introduction to major scales, key signatures, tonic triads, time-signatures and musical terms.

In the Playing With Colour Series the student will experience coloured notation from page 1 using numbered staves as well as clear graphic illustrations for the right and left hands so making music starts immediately. Thereafter theory rhythm ear training improvisation and sight-reading exercises are gradually introduced so the student has the best possible platform on which to build.Playing With Colour Book 1 includes many imaginative original pieces like; Waiting for a Train; Hopscotch; and the inevitable Raindrop song but also familiar classics like: Humpty Dumpty; Ba Ba Black Sheep; Oranges & Lemons; JingleBells.

Writing books for the elementary pianist designed to progress with the preparatory grade books. Covers triads inversions chord progressions and cadences. Drills in notation and musical rudiments.

Writing books for the elementary pianist designed to progress with the preparatory grade books. Covers triads inversions chord progressions and cadences. Presents major and minor scales and intervals in all forms.