Keyboard Theory Book 5-6 (Frances Clark Library for Piano Students)

This series offers an imaginative approach to theory designed to help students learn the fundamentals of music and traditional harmonic practice quickly, easily, musically. A carefully planned program of keyboard activities develops the ability to: Acquire facility in all major and minor keys through perceiving their black-and-white-key layout
* Accompany melodies in various styles
* Learn good voice-leading techniques while reconstructing music of the masters
* Make discriminating choices of harmonies in a widening spectrum from tonic and dominant to 7th chords on any scale degree
* Modulate as a natural shifting of key center rather than according to artificial formulas
* Improve reading skill through experience with all major and minor keys, meters, and rhythm patterns, and by playing from figured bass
* Improvise on given ideas as well as create short compositions.