ISBN 1540056252. 9x12 inches.
Reading by interval is a musical, logical, and successful approach to music reading. Use this book to supplement a beginning method, or as a new way to help improve already existing reading skills. Each unit presents a simple approach to learning by providing experiences in each of these areas: Exploring ? discover intervals on the keyboard; Writing ? see how intervals are expressed in staff notation; Playing ? understand how intervals correlate to the fingers of the hand; Reading ? practice intervals with short reading examples; Creating ? compose and improvise using intervals; Repertoire ? discover how newly learned intervals appear in the repertoire. Students of any age, with or without the guidance of a teacher, will benefit from the activities in this book and the reading process it demonstrates using folk tunes, classic repertoire, and original compositions.
