Helen Marlais
Pianist, Pedagogue, Pedagogical author.
The Answer Key is the companion to Write, Play, and Hear Your Theory Every Day®, Book 5, and provides the correct answers for each of the written exercises as well as playback and ear training activities.
Book 4 in this series introduces new concepts such as: new time signature 6/8 ; relative minor scales; key signatures for major and minor scales; primary triads and the dominant 7th; subdominant and dominant 7th chords; authentic, plagal, and half cadences; among others. Students are presented with a final test at the end of this...
In Book 5, students will review Major and minor key signatures, time signatures, notes and rests, Major scales, relative minor (natural and harmonic) scales, intervals, triads and inversions, and cadences. New material includes: 2/2 time signature; naming sharps and flats in Major and minor scales; sixteenth notes and rests; eighth note triplets; Major and Perfect...
In Recital® with Christmas Favorites, Book Five is designed to help teachers motivate students while also providing a perfect holiday treat. Triplet and sixteenth-note patterns as well as dotted rhythmic patterns and syncopated rhythms are used. Reinforces concepts like rubato, chords and their inversions, octave scale passages, arpeggios, blocked octaves, simple ornamentation, and playing two...
