Category Archives: music theory

Rallentando & Ritardando: What’s the Difference?

By joy (admin) | Published: 3 September 2010
This post discusses the difference between the Italian musical terms "ritardando" and "rallentando." After consulting an Italian-English Dictionary, a subtle but important distinction is proposed.
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Just Added: Scales & Primary Chords 4 (DbC#GbF#)

By joy (admin) | Published: 26 August 2010
Just added to the Printables > Worksheets page: Scales & Primary Chords 4 (DbC#GbF#) Worksheet This worksheet is a continuation of set of worksheets that practice writing out scales and primary chords on the staff (click here to view the first one which is for the keys C, G, D, and F, click here to [...]
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Just Added: Scales & Primary Chords 3 (BbEbAbB)

By joy (admin) | Published: 23 August 2010
Just added to the Printables > Worksheets page: Scales & Primary Chords 3 (BbEbAbB) Worksheet This worksheet is a continuation of set of worksheets that practice writing out scales and primary chords on the staff (click here to view the first one, which is for the keys C, G, D, and F, or click here [...]
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Music Theory at our Piano Mini-Camp (3/3)

By joy (admin) | Published: 26 July 2010
In continuation of a description of the music theory activities at our Piano Mini-Camp a few weeks ago, here are more details concerning the activities we used: Rhythm Dictation Game This rhythm dictation game by Natalie was a real hit with the students!  I printed off two sets of cards and put the students into [...]
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Music Theory at our Piano Mini-Camp (2/3)

By joy (admin) | Published: 23 July 2010
In continuation of the series about music theory at our piano mini-camp, here are the descriptions of a few more of the activities we did: Music Adventures Board Game In my music theory classes, one of my goals was to cover as many areas within the broad scope of “music theory” as I could.  The [...]
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Music Theory at our Piano Mini-Camp (1/3)

By joy (admin) | Published: 22 July 2010
As promised, here’s more about the Music Theory classes at our Piano Mini-Camp a few weeks ago.  I didn’t create formal lesson plans per-se, but the next three posts will serve as a general outline of the activities we did over each of the three camp days. Gem Notes on the Keyboard & Staff Using [...]
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Teaching Music Theory: Our Responsibility

By joy (admin) | Published: 24 June 2010
This article talks about why integrating a music theory component is important for teaching private lessons in piano or any musical instrument. It is our responsibility as music teachers to give our students a well-rounded education in the area of music - including theory.
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Just Added: Navigating at the Keyboard Worksheet

By joy (admin) | Published: 22 April 2010
A new free worksheet has just been added to the Printables page: Navigating at the Keyboard. This worksheet is for young beginners who have only just recently been exposed to piano.  This worksheet is designed to help them become familiar with the layout of the keyboard so that they can locate and identify the keys [...]
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Just Added: Reference Sheet for Reading Music

By joy (admin) | Published: 12 April 2010
This free printable is a handy reference sheet to give out to students who are just learning to read musical notation from the staff. What it contains: notes and their values, eighth through whole. rests and their values, eighth through whole. word mnemonics for figuring out the letter names of notes on the staff: Treble [...]
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Just Added: Write In The Barlines #2

By joy (admin) | Published: 5 April 2010
That’s right, a new free printable worksheet has just been added to the Printables >Worksheets page: Write In the Barlines #2 This worksheet is for use after using the Write In the Barlines #1 worksheet.  This time, students must draw the barlines through both staves of the grand staff instead of through just one staff.  This [...]
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