Iacob, Raquel_Music Theory Fundamentals Workbook for Clarinet
It is an all too common occurrence that a clarinet instructor must not only teach their students the clarinet, but also address their students' lack of basic understanding of music theory fundamentals. Author Raquel Iacob aims to fill this gap with her Music Theory Fundamentals Workbook for Clarinet, which is designed to be incorporated into a teacher's own clarinet pedagogical approaches in order to to enhance their students' understanding of music. The substantial publication (157 pages) is organized into three major sections: melodic elements, scales, and rhythmic elements. The "Melodic Elements" section deals with how to determine pitch, covering concepts of the musical alphabet, the staff and treble clef, notation of note heads/stems, flats/sharps (and double sharps/flats), enharmonic pitches, intervals, and transposition. The "Scales" section includes construction of all major and minor scales, chromatic scale, circle of fifths, names of scale degrees, key signatures identifi