Udemy Trinity Grade 5 Music Theory TUTORiAL

This Grade 5 Music Theory video courses covers the Trinity syllabus in full.

This course is for candidates preparing for Trinity Grade 5 Music Theory

Rhythm and Form
Time signatures of 4/2, 6/4 and 7/4
Time signature changes within an extract
Rules for grouping note and rest values within new time signatures (including grouping indications at the beginning of bars or scores, e.g. 2,3 or 3,2)
Grouping demisemiquavers (32nd notes) in simple and compound time
Semiquaver (16th note) triplets
The breve (double whole note)
Strophic, Verse and Refrain (or Chorus) and binary forms

Pitch
Naming and using notes in tenor clef
Ab, Db, E and B major keys (for all major keys for the grade: scales, key signatures, one-octave arpeggios, broken chords and tonic triads (root, first or second inversion))
F, Bb, C# and G# minor keys (for all minor keys for the grade: scales - natural (Aeolian mode) and harmonic and melodic, key signatures, one-octave arpeggios, broken chords and tonic triads (root, first or second inversion))
Identifying the key of a piece in Ab, Db, E or B major, and F, Bb, C# or G# minor
2nd degree of the major/minor scale being known as the supertonic or re (major keys only)
Supertonic triads for all keys covered so far
Major/minor supertonic triad labelled:
— as a chord symbol above the music (e.g. Dm in the key of C major or B dim (or B°) in the key of A minor)
— as a Roman numeral below the music (e.g. ii in the key of C major or ii° (dim) in the key of A minor)
Recognising imperfect cadences
Double sharps and double flats and general enharmonic equivalents
Recognising and writing C and G pentatonic major scales
Inversions of all intervals covered in Grades 1–4 within an octave
Recognising and writing accented passing notes and understanding acciaccatura, appoggiatura, upper and lower mordents and trills
Understanding upper and lower auxiliary notes
Writing tonic, supertonic, subdominant, dominant or dominant 7th chords in root, first or second inversions in any key for the grade as well-balanced 4-part chords for SATB
Transposing a tune up or down any major, minor or perfect interval within an octave (within the keys for the grade) or for transposing instruments for the grade
Ranges of the alto saxophone in Eb and trumpet and clarinet in Bb as defined in the Trinity workbook
Concept of modulation
Identifying a modulation to the dominant or the relative major/minor keys
Musical terms and symbols

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