Welcome to the companion website for Music Fundamentals: A Balanced Approach, Third Edition by Sumy Takesue.

Here you will find a range of materials to help you use this unique and exciting book. We hope they will prove helpful: whether you're studying or teaching, familiar with reading music or learning the basics for the first time, this dynamic website includes many resources for both the student and instructor.

For the student:

    • The Music Theory Trainer, which features interactive drills coordinated with the book.
    • Flashcards to review concepts and note-reading skills in music theory.
    • Streaming audio of exercises found in the text.
    • Appendices of chord charts, studies of modes, and definitions of musical terms, as well as full-score analyses not found in the book.
    • Further resources and links highlighting additional listening examples

For the instructor:

    • A downloadable Instructor's Manual, which offers answer keys, additional exercises, ideas on using the book, and more.
    • Sample test questions (new to the third edition) for each Module of the book.

We hope you'll enjoy using Music Fundamentals: A Balanced Approach and its interactive website to help you learn to read and understand music.

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