Zoltan Kodály in North America Book

Learning to read music is easy! It won't be difficult! You can learn the basics of music in just a few hours. "You Can Read Music" tells you exactly what you need to know. In fact, it does more than that: it organizes the information into useful groups of related ideas so you can learn music fundamentals in an easily understood, orderly fashion. "You Can Read Music" is written in brief, carefully organized lessons. You can study it individually. If you do, you'll find that the concepts are explained so clearly that you'll be able to understand them without outside help. But "You Can Read Music" can be used as a brief textbook, too. Elementary School teachers can use it to teach their students. Middle School and High School choir directors can strengthen their choirs by presenting the lessons in brief segments as part of their daily rehearsal schedule. Private instrument instructors can teach the lessons as part of the weekly course of study they outline for their students. Parents can use the book to teach their children, and if they don't know the basics of music, reading it is a wonderful way to acquire their own musical literacy. You can feel confident that when you've mastered the ideas presented in this book, you'll truly be knowledgeable in the music-reading process. You'll be musically literate, and you you'll know for sure that "You Can Read Music"!