Theory needn't be boring! Master the basics with these music theory puzzles and games, with helpful hints from a motley crew of cartoon characters. Great preparation for theory exams and helpful for your music lessons: ideal for instrumentalists as well as pianists.

About this book - Note Values - Bars and time signatures - The Stave and the musical alphabet - The Treble Clef - The Bass Clef - Rests - Dynamics - Ties - Dots - Repeats - More words and signs - Sharps and Vlats - The demiquaver and its rest - Tempo markings - More about tones and semitones - The major scales of C,G,D and F - Key sinatures - Cancelling Accidentals - Da Capo and dal segno - The 8va sign - More Tempo Markings - Degrees of the Scale - Tonic triads - Intervals - Grouping notes Composing and answering rhythm - Even more tempo markings - Ledger lines - The major scales of A,Bb and Eb - Introducing 2/2, 3/2 and 4/2 - Moods in Music - Marmonic minor scales - Another time sinature: 3/8 - New words and signs - Melodic minor scales - Grouping of rests - Triplets - Completing a four bar rhythm - Answers - Index