Music Theory and Composition Books

Improve your ear, sight-reading and sense of ensemble. These duets, trios and canons will help improve your sense of pitch and timing through major scales, modes and chromatic melodies. They bring to any

This essential method features rigorous, hands-on, "ears-on" practice exercises that helps students explore the inner workings of music, presenting notes, scales, and rhythms as they are heard in pop, jazz,

This volume focuses on harmony, including triads, seventh chords, inversions, and voice leading for jazz, blues and popular music styles. You'll develop the tools needed to write melodies and create

Use counterpoint to make your music more engaging and creative. Counterpoint - the relationship between musical voices - is among the core principles for writing music, and it has been central to the study

Do-It-Yourself Music Theory is a fun way to get started understanding music on your own. Using well-known music from pop, classical, and many other styles, you will be given step-by-step

Perfect pitch – also called absolute pitch – has been a source of endless fascination for hundreds of years. The ability to recognize musical tones with no reference is often viewed as a kind of

If you are already good at reading and writing quarter note and eighth note rhythms, and want to up your game, this is the book for you. Supported by recordings of the exercises, and worksheets that help