Master Theory Workbook
This interactive workbook begins with staff lines and progresses through rhythms, key signatures, scales, and harmony. This book is a great, no-nonsense method.
BOOK 1, #L173:
Students will learn Staff, Clef Signs, Line and Space Names, Whole, Half, and Quarter Notes, Measures, Time Signatures of 2/4, 3/4, and 4/4, Note Values and Rest Values, Dotted Notes, Leger Lines, Repeat Signs, 1st & 2nd Endings, Ties, Slurs, Eighth Notes and Rests, Dotted Quarter Notes, Flats, Sharps, Naturals and Accidentals.
BOOK 2, #L174:
Students will learn Key Signatures, Flat and Sharp Keys, Sixteenth Notes and Rests, Dotted Eighth Notes, Alla Breve, Intervals, Whole and Half Steps, Tetrachords, Major Scales, Circle of Keys, 3/8, 6/8, 9/8, and 12/8 in Slow and Fast Time, and Syncopation.
BOOK 3, #L175:
Students will learn Chromatic Scales, Enharmonic Tones, Signs and Abbreviations, Minor Scales, Movable "Do" Syllables, Transposition, Complex Time Signatures, Perfect, Major and Minor Intervals, Augmented and Diminished Intervals, 2-part Harmony, Major Chords, Triads, Scale of Triads, Dominant 7th Chords, and Conducting.
BOOK 4, #L179:
Students will learn Triads, Harmonizing with Chords, Passing and Neighboring Notes, Triads in Arpeggio Form, the Subdominant Triad, Dominant Seventh Chord, Melody Writing, Harmonizing Melodies, Harmonizing Major and Minor Chords, and Recognizing Minor Chords.
BOOK 5, #L171:
Students will learn Chord Positions, Chord Inversions, Four-Part Writing, Arranging for Voices, Secondary Chords, Transposing Instruments, Arranging for Brass, Woodwinds, and Piano.
BOOK 6, #L183:
Students will learn Arranging for Voices, Transposing Instruments, Form in Music, Cadences, Non Harmonic Tones, Simple Modulation, Military Marches, Dominant Ninth Chord, The String Selection, Key Relationships, and a Chord Chart.