Odyssey Music Theory
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Gone are the days of boring repetition one-size-fits all learning. Let’s make music theory fun by learning through exploration and play!
Odyssey Music Theory is a revolutionary 9-book series written and edited by internationally recognized professionals in music, music education, and disability education. This series is fully compliant with Royal Conservatory (RCM) 2016 Syllabus standards.
Recommended ages 5 and up
Book Features:
- Characters that learn with you
- Comics and an adventure story line
- Interactive activities and games
- Full colour and large print
- multi-sensory learning
- Notes, rests, and the staff
- Reading music
- Treble and bass clefs
- C major and A minor scales and triads
- Time Signatures
- Rhythm and counting
Level 1:
- Ledger lines
- Accidentals and key signatures
- Dotted notes and rests
- More scales and triads
- Writing music
- Musical storytelling
- Repeats and music structure
- Metre and beats
- More dotted notes and rests
- Scale patterns and structre
- Relative Major and minor scales
- Root quality and functional chord symbols
Level 3:
- Sixteenth notes and rests
- Enharmonic
- Transposition
- Pickup notes and the anacrusis
- New key signatures
- Parallel triads
Level 4:
- Chromatic scales
- Triplets
- The circle of 5ths
- Major, minor, and subdominant triads
- 12-bar blues
- More time signatures
Level 5:
- Triplets
- Parallel keys
- Compound time signatures
- Minor intervals
- Train inversions
- Dominant 7 chords
Level 6:
- Double sharps and double flats
- 32nd notes and rests
- Key identification
- Augmented and Diminished Intervals
- Closed and Open position
- Cadences
Level 7:
- Octatonic scales
- Blues scales
- Double dots
- Irregular note groupings
- Non-chord tones in melodies
- Inverting intervals
- Diminished and augmented triads
