Making Music Fun Catalog

| Scales & Stuff | Keys | Key Signatures | Musicaps | Musical Holder |
| Grand Staff | Notes | Flash Cards | Fill in the Blanks |
| Musical Symbols | Musical Terms | Clap and Count | Win a Star | Composers |

  Scales & StuffTM $8.95
This book contains scales, chords, inversions and arpeggios.

SCALES: There are all of the major scales and their three relative minors: harmonic, natural and melodic. Also, for those students who have a more difficult time with key signatures, each major scale and harmonic minor scale are shown on a keyboard with each note to be played marked with an X.
To further help these students, the scales are printed a second time with the notes to be sharped or flatted appearing in red.
CHORDS:
INVERSIONS:
ARPEGGIOS:
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  KeysTM $10.95
This game helps students recognize key signatures. Each set contain 80 laminated cards in white, red, yellow, green and blue. Each key signature comes in all of these colors.

The white cards by themselves can be used as flash cards at private or group lessons or they can be mixed with the other cards to be used in one of the KEYSTM games at group lessons.
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  Key SignaturesTM $7.95
These laminated cards have the names of all the major and minor keys. One set of cards has the name of the major key and its relative minor: G-e. The second set has just the name of the major key: G. The third set has just the name of the relative minor: e. These cards have been designed to be used with the KEYSTM game to help students identify all of the key signatures.
Students can identify keys in one of three ways:
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  MusicapsTM Labeled: 72/bag in seven colors - $13.95
Magnetic: Labeled 72/bag, seven colors - $20.95
MusicapsTM are brightly colored markers approximately 1 - 1/2" in diameter and labeled with the letters of the musical alphabet: ABCDEFG. Each bag contains eight As, eight Bs, etc. plus two each of the accidentals: . Plain, unlabeled MusicapsTM are also available for use with other games such as Fill in the BlankTM. MusicapsTM that are labeled and magnetic are also available.
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  MusicapTM Holder $15.95
This custom made plexiglass holder has ten slots. There is a slot for the sharps and flats as well as a slot for each letter of the musical alphabet: A B C D E F and G. The last slot is for the naturals, double sharps, and double flats. There is also a handle for easy carrying. The holder is large enough for two bags of MusicapsTM.
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  Grand StaffTM $4.95
This is a large laminated board (11"X17") containing the treble staff and the bass staff. Using MusicapsTM, students can identify lines and spaces, spell chords, make inversions and spell words such as CAFE, DAD, BADGE and ACE.
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  NotesTM $9.95
This game has been designed to help with the recognition of notes and musical symbols. Each game board has 25 squares, each one filled with either a note or a symbol.
Each set contains 12 different game boards and the calling cards. The game for beginners includes the notes from Bass C to Treble C. The game for intermediates includes the notes from Low C and High C.
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  Flash CardsTM $9.95
These laminated cards contain all of the notes from the F below Low C to the G above High C. The name of the note has been deliberately eliminated from the back of the card so that the student cannot rely on it.
The flash cards can be used in a variety of ways: Concentration; identifying individual notes with MusicapsTM, and using them as flash cards at both private and group lessons.
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  Fill in the BlanksTM $6.95
This game has been designed to help students learn to correctly draw musical symbols. Each laminated board has 25 squares in which the student draws the symbol as drawn and explained by the teacher. When all the squares are filled, the teacher crosses off her symbols one by one and the student covers the corresponding one with a MusicapTM or marker.
This board, with its good-size squares, can also be used for rhythmic dictation or to identify high tones (H) or low tones (L), etc. in ear training.
Each set contains five 9"X12" laminated boards.
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  Musical SymbolsTM $10.95
Help your students recognize all of the important musical symbols such as:
One card shows the symbol and the matching card gives the name of the symbol. These are 42 symbols and definitions per set. The cards are laminated.
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  Musical TermsTM $10.95
This teaching aid helps students to easily learn musical terms. Each set contains 136 cards: 68 with the Italian word or words, and 68 with the corresponding word or phrase in English. The cards are numbered on the back and they're laminated.
The words are in descending order of use. They begin with such common terms as legato, allegro, and moderato, and end with the relatively uncommon terms of assai, alla marcia and energico.
Musical terms can be used as flash cards at private lessons and in a number of fun ways at group lessons. Game ideas are included.
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  Clap and CountTM $14.95
Clap and CountTM consists of 20 different rhythmic patterns on easy to read 5-1/2" X 17" cards.
Having notes in three bright colors (red, green and blue) allows you to divide your group, with everyone clapping the black and white notes, one group clapping the red notes, another group clapping the green notes, and soloist clapping the blue notes.
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  Win a StarTM $19.95
You may order extra sheets of stars and charts
Extra stars: 7 sheets (one of each color) - $3.00
Extra charts: Packs of 5 - $3.00
This game has been designed with two purposes. The first is to increase a student's knowledge of theory. The second is to build self-esteem through awarding stars for correct answers. Here is a sampling of the 100 theory questions:
  • What is the relative minor of A major?
  • What note is up a 5th from F?
  • Spell a major triad in the key of C.
  • Spell a minor triad in the key of C.
  • Spell an augmented triad in the key of C.
  • Spell a diminished triad in the key of C.
  • What sign raises the pitch a half-step?
The game contains 100 theory questions, 2 sheets of self-stick stars (80stars per sheet) in red, yellow, blue, green, orange, purple and pink, as well as five charts for the names of students and the stars they have won.
Win a StarTM is an interactive game and works equally well with these other games from Making Music Fun:
ComposersTM Musical termsTM KeysTM
Flash CardsTM Musical SymbolsTM
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  ComposersTM $24.95
This game features 15 great composers: Handel, Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Rachmaninoff, and Gershwin. Each composer has five cards telling where and when he was born, during which period he composed and giving three interesting facts about his life. For more advanced students there are an additional five cards with interesting facts about each composer.
The cards are in color and are laminated.

 

  Magnetic Grand StaffTM $74.95
A large 20" x 22" magnetic board to be used with the magnetic Musicaps to build scales, chords, inversions, triads of the scale, etc. . It is framed in a chrome-finish frame suitable for hanging on a wall. This is one of our finest and most popular teaching aids

 

  Take Your PickTM $19.95
This is a brand new game that features fun, informative questions about fifteen great composers from Handel and Bach to Rachmaninoff and Gershwin. This game is great for a group lesson or piano camp. There are 75 sets of questions per game.

 

  Concentration GamesTM $19.95/per game

In this series there is a
Composers Concentration Game,
Musical Terms Concentration Game,
Musical Symbols Concentration Game and
Keys Concentration Game. In each game there are thirty 8" x 11" sheets in plastic protector pages. Numbers 1-30 are on one side; questions and corresponding answers are on the reverse side. These are perfect games for group lessons or piano camps.



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