Eric Taylor’s Music Theory In Practice series has helped more than one million musicians worldwide to learn about the notation and theory of music. As well as supporting the ABRSM theory syllabus, this workbook also provides an excellent resource for anyone wishing to develop general music literacy skills.
Grade 1
This workbook remains the best way to prepare for the Associated Board’s Grade One Theory Of Music Exam, offering:
- Accidentals
- Adding missing bar lines
- Intervals
- Key signatures
- Major scales
- Notes & note values
- Questions on a melody
- Simple time signatures
- Single dotted notes & rests
- Terms & signs
- Terms & signs quick test
- The stave
- Tonic triads
- Treble & bass clef
- Writing a four-bar rhythm
- Practice exam
Grade 2
This workbook remains the best way to prepare for the Associated Board’s Grade Two Theory Of Music Exam, offering:
- Adding missing bar-lines
- Grouping of notes
- Ledger lines
- Key signatures
- Time signatures
- Major & minor scales
- Intervals
- Tonic triads
- Triplets
- Composing four-bar rhythms
- Practice exam
Grade 3
This workbook remains the best way to prepare for the Associated Board’s Grade Three Theory Of Music Exam, offering:
- Adding missing bar-lines
- Adding missing rests
- Compound time
- Demi-semiquaver
- Grouping of notes
- Intervals
- Key signature chart
- Ledger lines
- Scales & key signatures
- Tonic triads
- Transposition
- Four-bar rhythm
- Practice exam
Grade 4
This workbook remains the best way to prepare for the Associated Board’s Grade Four Theory Of Music Exam, offering:
- The alto clef
- The breve
- The chromatic scale
- Double dotted notes
- Double sharps & flats
- The duplet
- Enharmonics
- Grouping of notes
- Interval chart
- Intervals
- Ornaments
- Rests
- Major & minor scales
- Technical names
- Time signatures
- Triads
- Four-bar rhythms
- Practice exam
Grade 5
ABRSM Grade Five is one of the most popular music theory courses to study. A pass in Grade Five theory is needed if you want to take Grade Six or higher in any instrument. This workbook remains the best way to prepare for the Associated Board’s Grade Five Theory Of Music Exam, offering:
- Good notation
- Foreign terms alphabetical list
- Time signatures
- Clefs
- The bass clef
- Key signatures
- Scales
- Intervals
- Transposing
- SATB Writing for voices
- Describing chords
- Progressions & cadences
- Composing a melody: General tips
- Composing a melody for instruments
- Composing a melody for voice
- Instruments of the orchestra
- Practice exam
Candidates are required to pass Grade 5 Theory or Grade 5 Practical Musicianship in order to progress to Practical exams at Grades 6, 7 and 8.
Grade 6
This workbook remains the best way to prepare for the Associated Board’s Grade Six Theory Of Music Exam, offering:
- Introduction to harmony
- Triads and chords
- Inversion
- Chord progressions
- Melodic decoration
- Harmonising a melody I
- Harmonising a melody II
- Figured bass an introduction
- Figures bass rules for realisation
- Figures bass worked example
- Adding a figures bassline
- The rules of harmony
- Composition – Introduction
- Composition – Architecture
- Composition – Motifs & sequences
- Composition – cadences
- Composition – Interpolation
- Composition – Key and tonality
- Composition – Modulation
- Composition – How to compose
- Reading an orchestral score
- Reading a chamber music score
- Musical instruments, families and names
- Transposing, reed & string instruments
- Musical terms and signs
- Commenting on music
- Key
- Naming chords
- Chords in a score
- Ornaments
- Melodic decoration and pedals
- Technical exercises
- Periods and composers
- Practice exam
Grade 7
This workbook remains the best way to prepare for the Associated Board’s Grade Seven Theory Of Music Exam, offering:
- Grade 7 composition
- Figures bass
- Harmony reconstruction
- Score reading
Grade 8
This workbook remains the best way to prepare for the Associated Board’s Grade Eight Theory Of Music Exam, offering:
- Grade 8 composition
- Keyboard reconstruction
- Score reading
- Trio sonatas
The AB Guide to Music Theory Part I
The AB Guide To Music Theory is intended to help people learning music to understand how music is written down, what the various signs and symbols denote, and what is meant by the common technical words used by musicians. Arising out of this, it provides an introduction to the basic elements in harmony and musical structure. Covers the basics of rhythm and tempo, an introduction to pitch, intervals and transposition, articulation, ornaments and reiterations.
In the main, this book deals with the subjects of the Associated Board’s theory syllabus for Grades 1-5.
The AB Guide to Music Theory Part II
The AB Guide To Music Theory is intended to help people learning music to understand how music is written down, what the various signs and symbols denote, and what is meant by the common technical words used by musicians. Arising out of this, it provides an introduction to the basic elements in harmony and musical structure. Includes separate chapters on voices, string instruments, woodwind and brass instruments, percussions and keyboard instruments, and instruments in combination. Also covers non-harmony notes, tonal harmony and chromatic chords and musical structure.
In the main, this book deals with the subjects of the Associated Board’s theory syllabus for Grades 6-8.
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