"Especially designed to creatively enrich the curriculums of beginning choral, instrumental, and general music classes."It's all here — Theory, Notation, Composition, and History — complete in three volumes. Vibrant illustrations, colorful contemporary graphics, engaging written exercises and motivating puzzles with bonus materials make teaching comprehensive musicianship more exciting than ever!
"Learning
the basics of music theory and history"
The Theory section of Music
Theory and History Workbook, Book 1 concentrates on learning the basic
language of music that helps develop well-rounded musicians: reading and
drawing notes in both treble and bass clef, learning key signatures and
simple rhythms, and introducing intervals. Students compose their own rhythms
within parameters and encounter fun puzzles and games to reinforce their
new skills.The Book 1 History section gives an overview of music history in the context of world events, using text, illustrations, and timelines. Students get a taste of music history from anitquity to the present day, with introductions to the Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and 20th Century. Every historical section has written exercises plus Brain Busters that challenge students to delve beyond the words on the page by thinking and researching on their own.
| L21 | BOOK 1 | $5.95 |
"Developing
theory skills and historical knowledge in the study of Music"
The Book 2 Intermediate
Theory section reviews and reinforces the concepts learned in Book 1,
enhancing notational skills, learning more about key signatures, and improving
interval recognition. Students are introduced to challenging new rhythms,
and learn to create major and minor chords — the building blocks of
Western music. Book 2 History focuses on the composers most influential in music history. Students learn to apply their general knowledge gleaned from Book 1 and zero-in on specific composers, some of which will be familiar and some new. The music history section is expanded from Book 1, and students are challenged with more extensive written exercises and opportunities to further research composers of each period from the Renaissance to the 20th Century.
| L22 | BOOK 2 | $5.95 |
Book 3 concentrates more
fully on music theory, exploring new concepts such as interval quality,
chord function, cadences, and melody writing. History is correlated to the
theory pages teaching students the origins of the theoretical concepts they
are learning. Students then use their new-found knowledge to compose and
analyze music, and learn how it all relates to the history of music through
the centuries. Students can be challenged further with optional listening/ear-training
activities that appear throughout the book. Standard of Excellence Music
Theory and History Workbooks establish the basis for a lifetime of music
appreciation. 
Each Teacher’s Edition
includes answer keys to the corresponding Standard of Excellence Music
Theory & History Workbook, with a full-size reproduction of each
student page and easy-to-read answers in color. Also included are photocopyable
quizzes designed for assessment of student mastery of material. Written
with the busy teacher in mind, the quizzes are easy to grade — students
can even correct them for each other! A must for the teacher who desires
to reinforce the material presented in the Student Books in a minimum amount
of classroom time.