The Music Book – A step-by-step approach to reading and understanding music – Ages 8–11+

Help comprehend elements of music

Learning to play a musical instrument is a task which is achieved over a period of years; the ability to read and understand music is also a gradual process. These blackline masters are designed to help the student comprehend elements of music which are relevant to the understanding necessary to learn to play a musical instrument.

Features:

• can be used in conjunction with your existing music program
• covers the musical directions of stave familiarisation, beats and rests, rhythmic content, simple and compound time, musical instruments, history of music and musical trends
• blackline master activities vary in degree of difficulty
• exercises to be integrated into language lessons on a varied curriculum level
• project work and reading challenges are included
• answers are provided