Essentials of Music Theory: Teacher'S Answer Key

A good resource for passionate about music

I teach private voice and piano. I love using this book with my students. It's the all building blocks of musical understanding presented in a systematic way. The older ones can work ahead on their own it is so easily explained. And for the younger ones each lesson is made easy to understand when I go over it with them. I've used this book with students as young as 5 and beginning adults as well. Every concept is kept simple and short. Having all three books together has been very important as well. Firstly because it's cheaper than buying them individually. And secondly because it gives them the vision of what to work for. I thought at first that it might be overwhelming to give my students the full book, but none of my students have ever seemed overwhelmed by it. If anything I see them excited to work through to the end. They continue to want to stick with it. It's been my goal to have all my students complete it. It's a great foundation for any musical study.

This book is no good for self-study but is absolutely necessary if you have the Music Theory study book that looks just like this cover. Each page looks just like any teacher's answer key book and there is no chance for learning if all the answers are in front of you. However, the study book provides NO answers so if there are doubts about your answers being correct, this book will guide you. I also used it for scoring my chapter review tests.

This is an awesome book. The explanations are clear. It builds up well. The exercises are great. The 4 star rating is because it does not have an answer key (at the back of the book) to the exercises!! They make you buy the answer key book separately. Not nice!!

I'm using Alfred's Essentials to review music theory that I studied a LONG time ago. The actual Theory lesson book does not have any answer key, so this book is necessary.