Can’t read music? Think you’ve left it too late to learn? No problem! This new tutor book and CD makes learning easy. It guides you through the basics, from clefs to chord symbols and from time-signatures to tonality so in no time you will be able to read music from scratch. The audio CD makes the written music come alive and helps you understand the language of music. Easy to use, clearly written and jargon free, this is the ideal choice for any beginner. Published by Boosey & Hawkes in association with Classic FM.

01. A guided tour of written music
02. High and low
03. The note A on different instruments
04. Long and short
05. Bars and beats
06. Writing rhythms down
07. Starting to read pitch and rhythm together
08. Rhythm versus beat
09. Different music, different beat
10. More about time signatures
11. Sounds and silence
12. The instruments of the orchestra
13. The sections of the orchestra
14. New notes
15. Higher and higher
16. Reading the Bass Clef
17. Moving between treble and bass clefs
18. Shorter notes
19. Putting it all together
20. Quarter note beats
21. Musical sentances
22. Musical punctuation
23. Tones and semitones
24. Accidentals
25. Reading accidentals in music
26. History of music at a glance
28. Scales and keys
29. Some new keys
30. Key signatures
31. Fast and slow
31. Minor scales
32. Different types of repeat signs
33. Intervals
34. Compound time
35. Reading music with words
36. Scales
37. Simple chords
38. Musical form
39. Reading different types of music (Voice & Organ)
40. Reading different types of music (String Quartet)
41. Reading different types of music (Orchestral score)
42. Reading different types of music (Vocal score)
43. Reading different types of music (Modern scores)
44. Transposing instruments
45. Ornaments
46. Musical shorthand
47. More notes and rests
48. Putting it all together (Hungarian Rhapsody
Liszt)
49. Putting it all together (Sonata for Cello & Harpsichord
JS Bach)
50. Putting it all together (Violin Concerto 2nd Movt
Brahms)
51. Italian terms
52. Complete major and minor scales
53. Chord symbols
54. Answers
55. Reminders