Contemporary Theory Workbook - Book 2

The Contemporary Theory Workbooks are recommended reference material for the AMEB's Contemporary Popular Syllabus. They also provide support and training for the Music Craft syllabus.

Thanks for the recommendation of your Contemporary Theory Books 1 & 2  for my student for Grade 2 Music Craft.  He was struggling with the AMEB Music Craft books but your books opened the way for him. He got 93 for the exam which I think is OK for doing it all on his own.

Chris Collins - Sydney Teacher -Oct 2008

 

PART A

	INTERVALS: Compound Intervals, 9th and 10th; Inversions of Intervals; Interval Qualities and Sounds.
	NOTENAMING: On Leger Lines in Treble, Bass and C Clefs.
	TIME ELEMENTS: 32nd notes and rests; Simple and Compound Time Signatures; Triplets and Duplets. Uneven or Odd Time Signatures.
	SCALE CONSTRUCTION: All forms of the Minor Scale; Cycle of Fifths including minor keys; Relative Minor and Tonic Minor.
	CHORD CONSTRUCTION: Four-note chords: Major 7th, Dominant 7th, Minor 7th, Diminished 7th, Half- Diminished 7th, Major 6th and Minor 6th chords in Root Position.
	GENERAL: Modulation, Transposition, More Repeat Signs and Associated Terms.

PART B

	INTERVALS: Compound Intervals; Inversions of Compound Intervals; Naming intervals along a line of music.
	SCALE CONSTRUCTION: Modes; Whole Tone Scale, Diminished Scale; Pentatonic Scale; Blues Scale.
	TIME ELEMENTS: Single, Double and Triple Dotted Noted; 64th and 128th notes and rests; Breve or Double Whole Note; the alternative Crotchet (1 /4) rest; Syncopation; Swing Timing.
	APPLICATION OF CHORDS. Major and Minor Key Chord Tables; Figuring; Introduction to Harmony, Cadences and Chord Progressions.
	GENERAL. Acoustics, Ornaments.

Books One and Two

A practical and commonsense approach to music theory covering all the basics right through to the modes and higher grade information.

The page per lesson format encourages the student to move forward at a page a week pace or faster. (Answers included)

'Each subject is covered in such a way as to flood the student's mind with light. Sprinkled throughout are topics never covered except in encyclopaedias, refreshingly and clearly explained in easily understood statements displaying breadth and clarity. They are simply a must for every student and teacher's library.'

-Neville Thomas O.A.M., Lecturer in Woodwind Studies, Sydney Conservatorium of Music