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.

Exam boards: Edexcel AQA OCR WJEC The AS Music Literacy Workbook will develop students??? notational skills to the level necessary to succeed in the exam.This workbook explains the notation of a wide variety of instrumental techniques and includes a whole chapter devoted to score reading.Students will be able to read and understand any classical jazz pop or guitar scores they might come across during their AS studies and beyond.The workbook emphasises learning by doing. It includes numerous scorereading exercises based on jazz and classical music which encourage students to cross-reference their knowledge. The workbook builds towards aseries of exercises and model answers allowing students to check their work.This workbook is tailor made for anyone wanting to develop a grounding in music theory to AS level but is also a refreshing new resource for candidates preparing for higher grade exams in music theory BTEC National and Scottish Higher Grade Music.Rebecca Berkley is a freelance writer and musician and is a music education consultant. She has taught percussion to students of all ages both as a private teacher and as a workshop leader and published percussion music. She is also a choral conductor running several choirs and directing music festivals with her husband. After starting her career as a music teacher in secondary schools she became a lecturer in music education at the University of Southampton and the Institute of Education University of London. Her PhD thesis focused on how GCSE students learn to compose and how best to teach them. She is the co-author of Rhinegold???s Edexcel GCSE Music Listening Tests (Book 3) and contributes as a freelance writer to Classroom Music Magazine.

This series is a fun way to begin to learn music. Books 1 and 2 contain theory lessons ear training lessons and worksheets. Students from ages 8 to 12 in their first year of lessons will reinforce their music reading skills and gain a better understanding of the building blocks of music. This thorough easy-to-use theory method includes lessons ear training (CDs included with books 1 and 2) and worksheets.

How To Blitz! ABRSM Theory Grade 5 (2018 Revision) includes everything you'll need to blitz your Grade 5 ABRSM Theory exam. With full guidance to the entire syllabus more information revision exercisesand worksheets than any other theory textbook and possibly the clearest and easiest section on music notation we've ever seen the book makes working towards the ABRSM Theory accessible and enjoyable for students. Featuringquizzes games multiple choice word searches and more the book manages to make what is usually a dreaded topic into something fun. Although music theory applies to all instruments the Piano keyboard makes visualisationeasier  so lots of these diagrams are included to help students understand concepts more easily. 

How To Blitz! ABRSM Theory Grade 4 includes everything you'll need to blitz your Grade 4 ABRSM Theory exam. With full guidance on the entire syllabus, more information, revision exercises and worksheets than any other theory textbook and clear and easy introductions to new concepts. This book also features revision tests, quizzes and games that make working towards ABRSM Theory exams accessible and enjoyable for students.Written by renowned educator and author Samantha Coates, the BlitzBooks series has brought fun and laughter to the areas of music theory, instrumental technique and sight reading. Her engaging approach to theory and sight reading has made BlitzBooks already the most popular range of theory and sight reading books in Australia, now finally available in the UK. / Formation Musicale

These books include everything you'll need to blitz your Graded ABRSM Theory exam. With full guidance to the entire syllabus, more information, revisionexercises and worksheets than any other theory textbook and possibly the clearest and easiest section on music notation we've ever seen, the book makesworking towards the ABRSM Theory accessible and enjoyable for students. / Formation Musicale

These books include everything you'll need to blitz your Graded ABRSM Theory exam. With full guidance to the entire syllabus, more information, revisionexercises and worksheets than any other theory textbook and possibly the clearest and easiest section on music notation we've ever seen, the book makesworking towards the ABRSM Theory accessible and enjoyable for students. / Formation Musicale

If you want to learn how to read and write music this is the book you have been waiting for! Written in plain English and using a minimum of jargon it’s supplemented by audio material and other extras all available athybridpublications.com This means that you get lots of examples of how things should sound plus many online bonuses all clearly flagged on the relevant page in the book. Regular worksheets at the chapter ends make sureyou have understood the key points before moving on and again auxiliary material is available online. Learning to read and write music is not some abstract theory it is a practical skill that can be learnt. For the firsttime there is a book plus a website dedicated to teaching you how! If you’ve failed before it’s probably because you never had a unique product like How to Read Music!

This book gives you everything you?ll need to Blitz! the ABRSM Grade 2 Theory exam. It contains:? Everything you need to know (and nothing you don?t) for the 2018 syllabus.? More information revision exercises and worksheets than any other Grade 2 theory textbook.? Clear and easy introductions to new concepts.? Quizzes games multiple choice word searches and more!

Being a fascinatingly unique composer, Olivier Messiaen pushed the conventions of composing to its very limits. The composer's music remains ever-popular and The Technique of my Musical Language provides the key and necessaryknowledge into the study of his delightful music. Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) was admitted to the Paris Conservatoire at the mere age of 11, where he won many prizes. As a passionate ornithologist, as well as organist andcomposer, many of Messiaen's works depict bird song. His music is rhythmically complex and harmonically and melodically distinct, often using modes of limited transposition. It is for these reasons that the composer compiled TheTechnique of my Musical Language. The book contains text with musical examples, describing unique elements of his music, such as ametrical music, his rhythmic notations and his modes of limited transposition, among many others.For all fans of Messiaen, The Technique of my Musical Language is essential to the understanding of the composer's much loved music. / Méthodes et pédagogie / Formation musicale / Théorie - harmonie / LEDUC

All the material you need to know to take the London College Of Music Grade 1 exam in Popular Theory. The book introduces and explains the theory behind popular music as well as being a great help in passing the exam. Clear and well presented all instrumentalists of popular music will find this an invaluable aid in learning the musical foundations of popular music.

The Rhythm Changes Guide. The Rhythm Changes Guide takes the reader from the absolute essentials to advanced improvisational concepts, all supplemented with examples from legendary players. Includes 20 Etudes in all transpositions with backing tracks by a live NY rhythm section, exploring the rich tradition of Rhythm Changes and its harmonic possibilities. 70 pages of tradition-derived improvisation concepts and exercises, with dozens of examples from legendary players like John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Hank Mobley, Don Byas, Michael Brecker, and many others. Features strategies for both diatonic and chromatic improvisation and unexplored concepts for improvisation such as Schenkerian theory. Useful for beginners, intermediate-level performers, professionals, and musicians interested in diverse styles such as bebop, hardbop, modern contemporary, etc.