Alfred's Essentials of Music Theory: Teacher's Answer Key
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Alfred's Essentials of Music Theory: Teacher's Answer Key Details
Alfred's Essentials of Music Theory is designed for students of any age, whether listeners or performers, who want to have a better understanding of the language of music. In this all-in-one theory course, you will learn the essentials of music through concise lessons, practice your music reading and writing skills in the exercises, improve your listening skills with the available ear-training CDs (sold separately), and test your knowledge with a review that completes each unit. The Teacher's Answer Key is a spiral-bound book that includes answers for the Lesson and Review pages as well as music for the Ear-Training pages in Volumes 1-3 of the Student Books. The complete line of Alfred's Essentials of Music Theory includes Student Books, a Teacher's Answer Key, Ear-Training CDs, Double Bingo games, Flash Cards, Reproducible Teacher's Activity Kits, and interactive software for students and teachers in private study, studio and network environments.
Reviews
This curriculum is a much-needed answer to the dearth of texts for learning music theory outside of college, and it certainly has its merits. The curriculum is thoughtfully laid out, and overall it is an excellent guide, but it is somewhat lacking in heft. While the book touches on many subjects briefly, instructors may need to supply their own additional worksheets to help students fully grasp the concepts. Also, the clarity of the book's explanation of concepts (and the instructions for some exercises) leave something to be desired. Overall, I recommend this book because I have not found a music theory curriculum that is better suited to teaching pre-collegiate students, but teachers should be aware that they may need to augment the curriculum themselves.
