Udemy Music Theory Abrsm Grade 7 Complete TUTORiAL

This course covers knowledge and skills required to answer everything in the ABRSM Grade 7 Music Theory exam.

Every topic in the syllabus is explained in a concise and easy-to-follow way.

Each exam question is explained in detail, with step-by-step videos on how to tackle it.

Grade 7 ABRSM comprises five questions:

1) Adding figures to a given bass line and melody part
2) Completing a Bach-style chorale or early-Classical ear keyboard style pieces, using suitable melodic decoration and keyboard accompaniments
3) Composition of either a solo part to fit a given piano accompaniment, or a solo piece based on a given chord progression and stylistic opening.
4) and 5) A mixed bag of score-reading question (e.g. intervals, chord recognition, cadences, transposition, identification of eras, knowledge about orchestral instruments and music terms and symbols etc.) Question 4 is usually a smaller-scale chamber music score, and question 5 is usually an extract from an orchestral score.

PDF including - with detailed lessons, exercises, test and model answers. Each chapter provides a step-by-step explanation of the theory, with lots of musical examples. Each chapter is followed by a series of practice exercises. All answers are provided, including model answers for the creative questions.

Course Contents
Chords vii7, secondary 7ths and the Neapolitan 6th
Voice leading and exceptions to the "rules"
Decoration notes and their use in chorales and Classical keyboard styles
How to analyse harmony with decoration notes
Chord progression and harmonic sequences
Figured bass including 7th and 9th chords
How to figure a given bass line
Reconstructing a Baroque chorale and a Classical keyboard piece
Writing a solo composition to fit a given piano accompaniment
Writing a solo composition from a prompt or given chord progression
Questions on musical scores (chamber and orchestral)
Musical terms and symbols
Practice test

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