Music Theory is Fun Books 1 to 5 , is the newly revised series by Maureen Cox . Using an attractive layout with clear examples and illustrations together with activities to reinforce learning and understanding, the books cover in an easy step-by-step approach: notes, rests, simple, compound and irregular time signatures beaming and grouping of notes and rests tones, semitones, keyboard, clefs and key signatures all major, relative harmonic and melodic minor keys scales - major, minor (ascending - descending) and chromatic major, minor, perfect, augmented and diminished intervals open and closed chords, root, 1st and 2nd inversions perfect, imperfect and plagal cadences ornaments - acciaccatura, appoggiatura, mordents turns and trills instruments of the orchestra, concert pitch and clef chart transposition - hints and rules short and open scores composing a melody and writing rhythms In response to popular demand, Maureen Cox has added at the end of each book a collection of puzzles and quizzes and a set of ten one-page tests of questions typically encountered in exams. This book gives you the answers to those puzzles, quizzes and test questions.