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Odyssey Music Theory

9 Odyssey Music Theory books span a rainbow hued banners from yellow through green each fanned showing action adventures with 4 characters with visible disabilities

Gone are the days of boring repetition one-size-fits all learning. Let’s make music theory fun again by learning through exploration and play!

Odyssey Music Theory is a revolutionary 9-book series that provides a fun, colourful, engaging, and accessible approach to help students of all ages learn the fundamentals of music theory. Written and edited by internationally recognized professionals in music, music education, and disability education. This series is fully compliant with Royal Conservatory (RCM) 2016 Syllabus standards. 

If you need this book in a different format, please visit our accessible formats page for more information!

Odyssey Music Theory - Prep

Your Musical Odyssey Starts Here!

An exciting adventure awaits in this full-colour, large print (18 pt) book. Explore theory with characters, interactive activities, and multi-sensory fun!

This book is designed for students new to music or music theory and is recommended for those 5 and up. Younger students can still work through the book with the assistance of an adult or teacher.

Learn about the staff, notes and rests, reading music, the treble clef, the bass clef, the C Major and A minor scales and triads, time signatures, and much more!

how to use this book page image - four characters stand next to speech bubbles explaining how they work throughout the book
a page showing a colourful musical alphabet and pitches
A page showing a puzzle using keyboards with a detective dog
a page showing how to count note lengths
a page showing a colourful music comic

Odyssey Music Theory - Level 1

Your Musical Odyssey Continues!

An exciting adventure awaits in this full-colour, large print (18 pt) book. Explore theory with characters, interactive activities, and multi-sensory fun!

This book is designed for students new to music or music theory and is recommended for those 5 and up. Younger students can still work through the book with the assistance of an adult or teacher.

Learn about ledger lines, accidentals, more scales and triads, writing music, storytelling through music, and more!.

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a page called meet team odyssey it introduces the 4 characters in the book
a page showing how ties differ from slurs
a speed test puzzle challenge page
a page showing the breakdown of the orchestra

Odyssey Music Theory - Level 2

Your Musical Odyssey Continues!

An exciting adventure awaits in this full-colour, large print (18 pt) book. Explore theory with characters, interactive activities, and multi-sensory fun!

This book is designed for students of all ages, but is recommended for those age 5 and up. Younger students can still work through the book with the assistance of an adult or teacher.

Learn about dotted notes and rests, musical roadmaps, metre and beats, scale patterns and theory, relative major and minor scales, root quality and functional chord symbols, and much more!

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a page showing the 4 characters from the book called meet team odyssey
a speed test puzzle page
a page explaining tempo and dynamics
a page explaining how the d minor triad works
a puzzle page

Odyssey Music Theory - Level 3

Your Musical Odyssey Continues!

An exciting adventure awaits in this full-colour, large print (18 pt) book. Explore theory with characters, interactive activities, and multi-sensory fun!

This book is designed for students of all ages, but is recommended for those age 5 and up. Younger students can still work through the book with the assistance of an adult or teacher.

Learn about sixteenth notes and rests, enharmonics, transposition, pickup notes, the anacrusis, new key signatures, and much more!

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a page called meet team odyssey it introduces the 4 characters in the book
an image of a puzzle game decoder exercise
an image of the first page of the reveiw
an image of the dominant triad page
an image of the graphical glossary

COMING SOON!

Odyssey Music Theory - Level 4

Your Musical Odyssey Continues!

An exciting adventure awaits in this full-colour, large print (18 pt) book. Explore theory with characters, interactive activities, and multi-sensory fun!

This book is designed for students of all ages, but is recommended for those age 5 and up. Younger students can still work through the book with the assistance of an adult or teacher.

Learn about chromatic scales, triplets, the circle of 5ths, major, minor, and subdominant triads, the 12-bar blues, new time signatures, and much more!

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Odyssey Music Theory - Level 5

Your Musical Odyssey Continues!

An exciting adventure awaits in this full-colour, large print (18 pt) book. Explore theory with characters, interactive activities, and multi-sensory fun!

This book is designed for students of all ages, but is recommended for those age 5 and up. Younger students can still work through the book with the assistance of an adult or teacher.

Learn about compound time, parallel keys, writing melodies, voices in song, perfect, major, and minor intervals, triad inversions, dominant 7th chords, analyzing phrases and much more!

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Odyssey Music Theory - Level 6

Your Musical Odyssey Continues!

An exciting adventure awaits in this full-colour, large print (18 pt) book. Explore theory with characters, interactive activities, and multi-sensory fun!

This book is designed for students of all ages, but is recommended for those age 5 and up. Younger students can still work through the book with the assistance of an adult or teacher.

Learn about double sharps and double flats, identifying keys without a key signature, augmented and diminished intervals, closed and open positions, cadences, binary form, parallel periods, and much more!

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A dark green cover spans a biyu scene Odyssey Music Level 7 the four characters row in a boat along an eerie bayou swamp with ramshackle houses and hanging vines. Music notes are spread in the water behind the wake of their boat

Odyssey Music Theory - Level 7

Your Musical Odyssey Continues!

An exciting adventure awaits in this full-colour, large print (18 pt) book. Explore theory with characters, interactive activities, and multi-sensory fun!

This book is designed for students of all ages, but is recommended for those age 5 and up. Younger students can still work through the book with the assistance of an adult or teacher.

Learn dots and double dots, pentatonic and blues scales, whole tone and octatonic scales, inverting intervals, non chord tones in melodies, writing cadences, and much more!

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