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Music Understanding and Vocabulary - Challenge Questions:
I created these challenge questions to help students make sure that
they really understand the theory concepts of Music Progressions. Each
card requires them to think a little more deeply about the question or
to explain it more thoroughly than might be done. These are meant to
be printed on 4x6 cards.
Affirm-a-term: the game of quick, musical words and definitions. Available here! Fishy Flashcards: play a carnaval game with your elementary students using these reproducible flashcards in the shape of fish that help drill note names, ties/slurs, dynamics, instruments, and other elementary concepts. Available here! Piano Adventures Flashcards In-A-Box, Faber and Faber, FJH Music. Elementary Level (Music Progressions Levels 1-2) An Illustrated History of Music For Young Musicians, Comeau and Covert, Warner Bros. Five Volumes: Middle Ages and Renaissance Period (Reproducible)
Baroque Period
Classical Period
Romantic Period
Contemporary Period Meet the Great Composers, Books 1 & 2, June Montgomery and Maurice Hinson, Alfred. (Activity sheets are available in reproducible format).
Stories of the Great Composers, Book 1, June Montgomery and Maurice Hinson, Alfred.
The Baroque Spirit, Books 1 & 2, Nancy Bachus, Alfred.
The Classical Spirit, Books 1 & 2, Nancy Bachus, Alfred.
The Romantic Spirit, Books 1 & 2, Nancy Bachus, Alfred.
Beyond the Romantic Spirit, Book 1 & 2, Nancy Bachus, Alfred, Available in June. Accent on Composers, Althouse & O'Reilly, Alfred. (Recommended for grades 6 and up. Reproducible book with listening CD to introduce students to the lives of 22 great composers. Contains 3 sections: Biographies, Listening Examples, and Review tests.
Rhythm and Pulse Development Listen to Me: Rhythmic Dictation. Reproducible worksheets with accompanying CDs so that students can improve their rhythmic dictation skillls outside of piano lessons. Especially helpful for preparing MP levels 3-9. Games for Music Reading, Book 1, Christine Davies and Carol Matz, FJH Music. (Music Progressions Levels 1-2) Winning Rhythms, Edward L. Ayola, Kjos. (Music Progressions Levels 2-10) Making Rhythm Easy, Book 1, Victoria McArthur and Edwin McLean, FJH Music. (Music Progressions Levels 1-2) Rhythm Clapback/Singback, Books 1-3, Boris Berlin and Andrew Markow, Frederick Harris.
Sight-Playing - Sightreading, Books 1 & 2, Walter & Carol Noona, Lorenz.
(Book 1 - MP Levels 1-3, Book 2 - MP Levels 4-5) - Let's Sightplay!, Books 1-4, Kathleen Massoud, FJH Music.
- Step Skip & Repeat, Books 1 & 2, Stephen Covello, FJH Music.
- Four Star Sightreading and Ear Tests, Boris Berlin and Andrew Markow, Frederick Harris. (10 books)
- The Piano Student's Hymnal, Gayle Kowalchyk & E.L. Lancaster, Alfred.
Keyboard Facility Fingertips With a Touch of Theory, Books 1-4, Cobb, Lewis & Strickland, FJH Music. Scale Skills, Levels Prep - 4, Keith Snell, Kjos Music.
Prep. Book - MP Levels 1-2
Book 1 MP Levels 3-4
Book 2 MP Level 5
Book 3 MP Level 6
Book 4 MP Level 7 The First Book of Scales, Chords, Arpeggios & Cadences, Palmer, Manus & Lethco, Alfred. The Complete Book of Scales, Chords, Arpeggios & Cadences, Palmer, Manus & Lethco, Alfred. Achievement Skill Sheet Series, Faber & Faber, FJH Music. (No. 1-8) Get Ready For Chord And Arpeggio Duets, Wynn-Anne Rossi & Lucy Wilde Warren, FJH Music. Get Ready For Major Scale Duets, Wynn-Anne Rossi & Lucy Wilde Warren, FJH Music. Get Ready For Minor Scale Duets, Wynn-Anne Rossi & Lucy Wilde Warren, FJH Music. Get Ready For Pentascale Duets, Wynn-Anne Rossi & Lucy Wilde Warren, FJH Music.
Applied Theory/Written Theory/Ear Training Theory Worksheets Worksheets on intervals, cadences, modes, and melodic dictation. (Sign in before attempting to go here. If you have not registered, you may do so here: Registration Listen to Me: Melodic Dictation. Reproducible worksheets with accompanying CDs so that students can improve their melodic dictation skillls outside of piano lessons. Especially helpful for preparing MP levels 6-9. Listen to Me: Rhythmic Dictation. Reproducible worksheets with accompanying CDs so that students can improve their rhythmic dictation skillls outside of piano lessons. Especially helpful for preparing MP levels 3-9. Stinky Sox: a musical hot potato game. Use this fun game to reinforces scales, chords, and other theory and keyboard facility. Available soon from this website! Practice Theory Tests. These reproducible tests directly correspond to the 10 levels of Music Progressions. Answer key is provided. Fundamentals of Piano Theory, Preparatory Level - Level Ten, Keith Snell & Martha Ashleigh, Kjos Music. Explorations in Music, Books 1-7, Joanne Haroutounian, Kjos Music. Harmonization-Transposition at the Keyboard, Alice Kern, Warner Bros. Four Star Sightreading and Ear Tests (see above) Piano Theory, Mary Elizabeth Clark & David Carr Glover - Levels 1-6. Alfred's Basic Piano Library Ear Training Book, Levels 1B-6, Kowalchyk & Lancaster, Alfred. Fundamental Musicianship Skills, June C. Montgomery, Alfred. Elementary Levels A, B, C, D, E&F, Intermediate Levels A&B. Designed to meet the requirements for the National Guild of Piano Teachers auditions. Each book includes scales & cadences, ear training, transposition and sight-reading examples.
Modes Modes and Their Use in Jazz, Lee Evans, Edward B. Marks Music Company - Distributed by Hal Leonard. Modes and Moods, Robert Vandall, Myklas Music. Modal Expressions, Robert Vandall, Myklas Music.
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