The KITS Music Theory Course: Primary Step - Paperback

by Christine a. Murow (Author)

The KITS Music Theory Course includes seven levels of student workbooks appropriate for school age children from the second grade through high school. Each book has 30 or more lessons covering four areas of study: music reading, vocabulary, aural perception, and applied skills. While written with piano students and their teachers in mind, the course is adaptable to other instruments or the classroom. It has been in use since 1989, available only by mail order as a desktop publication of the Keynote Independent Theory Service, or KITS, which also provides annual exams based on the workbooks. For details about the annual exams and the National Honor Roll go to musictestkits-awards.com. Teachers and students nationwide have enjoyed a traditional approach to the fundamentals of music, from note reading to harmonic analysis, scale playing to melodic dictation. KITS Director, Christine A. Murow, author of the course, has now published it online for the convenience of the many KITS subscribers who have depended on it for years, as well as for newcomers. With this move, she hopes also to further the teaching of music theory into the future.

Author Biography

Christine A. Murow holds a Bachelor of Science degree in music education from Susquehanna University, where she graduated magna cum laude in 1967. She taught piano privately for almost 40 years before retiring in 2013. During those years she served as music theory chairman for music teachers' groups in her home state of Maryland, and in that capacity she had the idea to found KITS, offering music theory books and annual exams through the mail. She is listed in Who's Who of American Women, Millennium Edition.