A Fast Track from Beginner to Grade 5 Music Theory (All-in-One Series)

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Important note added from Aaron publications...*** ATTENTION! YOU ARE LOOKING AT THE 1st (2009) EDITION WHICH HAS SINCE BEEN SUPERSEDED BY THE 2ND (2012) & 3RD (2016) EDITION. The 3rd edition is far superior to this old edition so please SEARCH INSTEAD ON AMAZON FOR THIRD EDITION or ISBN 9780993447501 or go to our website www.aaronpublications.co.uk to read more about the differences. We are unable to get Amazon to remove this old listing (and can only alter the description). Unfortunately we cannot stop third parties selling our old discontinued books but PLEASE BE WARNED THAT MANY SELLERS ARE WRONGLY SELLING THIS ITEM WITHOUT THE ACCOMPANYING 'REFERENCE BOOKLET' (which we always sent to Amazon as part of the package!). The 2nd and 3rd edition amalgamate the material from the Reference booklet to avoid this problem. There is much mention inside All-In-One to Grade 5 (1st edition) book to the accompanying reference booklet so this 1st ed book will make little sense without it! The 3rd (2016) edition can be found on Amazon https://www.amazon.co.uk/Grade-Music-Theory-Beginner-Grades/dp/0993447503/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1496823537&sr=8-2&keywords=all+in+one+to+grade+5 ,or bought directly from us, the manufacturer at www.aaronpublications.co.uk. Thank you , Aaron publications (the publisher of All-In-One to Grade 5) *************************** A welcome addition to theory education...really excellent material...[contains] foreign word puzzles, worth every penny just for this section alone... Imaginative...good psychology to encourage and inspire pupils. The book is always clear, with concise language so that pupils of any age should be able to work through it with minimum dependence on the teacher. --Rhinegold Music Teacher magazine February 2009

This book by Rachel Billings, who studied at the Royal Northern College of Music, is written in a clear and inviting manner which should appeal to all ages other than the very young.There are many graduated exercises, puzzles and word games, and I particularly like the section that gives an illustrated study of orchestral instruments, their capabilities and range, which prepares the student for the closing section on transposition and simple composition. There are graphs in the opening pages that illustrate the parts of those sections appropriate to each grade and on which page to find them, and boxes to tick off when the student (or teacher) thinks he or she knows that particular feature well enough... Chapter 1 - Notation - begins with intervals as pattern recognition defining the relationship between notes on a stave. Recognition of the shape of intervals is very important for faster note reading and this is very laudably given prominence here. Also very sensibly, the intervals are defined as odd; -line to a space, space to a line - and even; -line to a line and space to a space, a concept that many of use but seldom see written down. Another good feature here is that in order to emphasize that intervals remain the same shape wherever they are on the stave, they have been shown without reference to clefs, so that the student's attention is not deflected to working out which notes they are, rather than simply recognising the shape. There are thirty pages referring to Italian, French and German terms, all punctuated with small drawings, hints on remembering them, tests, games and puzzles, stories where the terms can be fitted in with the text, and several crosswords. This is very well done and extremely thorough; also entertaining enough to encourage all but the most obstinate....In the chapter on Tonality, scales are very sensibly introduced with a large diagram of the Circle of Fifths. I find this always fascinates my pupils - they seem to love the logic of it all - and it's good to find it so clearly explained by Rachel Billings. ...the more I read through this All In One book of theory the more I like it. Even when all the many exercises are completed, it is not a book to be thrown away as we frequently dispose of other completed exercise books.It will remain as an excellent source of reference and one which I can warmly recommend. --EPTA Spring 2011

It really is a fantastic book and long overdue! The fact it is so beautiful is a real bonus... I've never been in love with a theory book before. -- --Anna Winton Mills, Head of Music, Cherry Trees Preparatory School, Risby