Adventures on Composer Cove Island 3A

Composer Cove Island has a lot to explore! Each section of Adventures on Composer Cove Island focuses on one musical concept and one musical form. The six sections in this book provide a progressive introduction to basic composition with each section building on the previous ones. Pentatonic Pictures: Pentatonic Scale. Parallel Question and Answer Melodies. Dynamic Desserts: Dynamics. Contrasting Question and Answer Melodies. Ritardando Rainforest: Tempo. Parallel Major and Minor Repeated Phrases. Syncopated Sails: Syncopation. Simple Ternary Form. Cadence Caverns: Cadences. Compound Ternary Form with D.C. al Fine. Chromatic Castles: Chromatic Scale. D.S. al Fine. Within each section, worksheets and games introduce theory concepts needed for writing the compositions. Relax in the Note Nook and learn all about notes on the staff. Pick up some Klavier Keys and learn about key signatures and scales. Climb Harmony Heights and learn about intervals and chords. Tour Melody Museum and sight read melodies in various musical forms. Anchor in Composer Cove and compose your own music. Turn on your Elephant Ears to identify what you hear in musical examples and to sight sing with Kodaly-Curwen hand signs. Climb on the Rhythm Rocks in time to the music, then follow the Paw Print to compose more songs. Level 3A includes the following concepts: -Note range (most selections use B3-D5. Some examples expand further for harmonization purposes) -Notes move by same, step, or skip -Intervals (Prime to Octave) -Cadences (Authentic, Plagal, Half, Deceptive) -Sight-singing (Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La, Me, Le) -Rhythms (Triplets, Eighth, Quarter, Dotted Quarter, Half, Dotted Half, Whole) -Time signatures (2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 3/8, 6/8) -Key signatures -Composing in major and parallel minor or relative minor keys -Half steps and whole steps -Major and relative minor scales -Scale degree names -Chromatic scale