Music Theory is Fun

Music Theory is Fun Book 5, is the fifth and last 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 7 sharps or flats
• Tenor clef and scales
• Compound intervals: major, minor, perfect, diminished & augmented
• Irregular time signatures, quintuple & septuple
• Tonic, super-tonic, subdominant & dominant chords
• Writing at concert pitch
• Short & open score
• Orchestral instruments
• Composing a melody
• Perfect, imperfect & plagal cadences.

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.