Music Theory is Fun: Book 4: Volume 4

Music Theory is Fun Book 4, is the fourth 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 5 sharps or flats
• Alto clef
• Chromatic scale, double sharps & flats
• Technical names of notes in the diatonic scale
• Simple & compound time, duple, triple, quadruple
• Primary triads, tonic, subdominant & dominant
• Diatonic intervals up to an octave
• Ornaments
• Four-bar rhythms and rhythms to words
• Orchestral instruments and their clefs

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.

Maureen Cox is the author of the original THEORY IS FUN books – a series of five books popular among students and teachers for more than 25 years. That series is also published in North America by FJH Music under the title BLAST OFF WITH MUSIC THEORY. She is also the author of HARMONY IS FUN, presenting harmony at the keyboard in a step-by-step, straightforward way that is fun without being frivolous.

Maureen has now republished her 5-book series under the title MUSIC THEORY IS FUN. In response to requests from her readers, she has added to each book, puzzles, quizzes and 10 one-page tests of questions typically encountered in examinations

Maureen Cox is an enthusiastic and gifted teacher who inspires her students to experience to joy and love she has for her subject.