Term 2 - Lesson 19 - Friday 24th March

Key Signature Tests

Group C

Group B

Group A

Do 20 questions, take a screen shot and put it on your blog, titled: Key Signature Test, label: Theory.

Feel free to reset your score if you get off to a bad start.



There will be a test in the first lesson of next term.

Revise the following:

Open / Short score

Recognising chords (including inversions)

Cadences

Italian words (the ones we've learnt so far)

Alto / Tenor clef

Time signatures (including compound time signatures)

Beaming

Key signatures (major and minor) up to 4 sharps and flats AND writing major and minor scales of those keys.


I won't test you on composing rhythms or text-setting.

Term 2 - Lesson 18 - Monday 20th March

Short Score:




Open Score





For Grade 5 theory, you need to be able to convert some music from open score to short score and vice versa.

This link gives a thorough explanation.

And here are some exercises.

Term 2 - Lessons 16 and 17, 13th & 17th March 2017

Recognising chords

In Grade 5 Theory, you only have to recognise chords I, II, IV and V.

In a major key, I, IV and V are major chords but ii is a minor chord.

In a minor key, i and iv are minor, ii is diminished, and V is major and includes an accidental (because of the raised 7th of the scale) - THE FACT THAT V NEEDS AN ACCIDENTAL WILL GIVE YOU A MASSIVE CLUE AS TO WHETHER KEY IS MAJOR OR MINOR!!!!

Use "a" for root position, "b" for 1st Inversion, "c" for 2nd Inversion.

Here is a link to a page that gives you a very thorough overview of this.

And here's a link that gives you some exercises to practise with.

Term 2 - Lessons 14 and 15, 6th and 10th March 2017

For the Grade 5 Theory Exam, they ask you to add chords to form cadences.

This link gives a good explanation of what cadences are.

You only need to know about these three types of cadence:

Perfect (V - I)

Plagal (IV - I)

Imperfect (I - V,   IV - V  or   II - V)


So, there are only 4 chords you can use (I, II, IV or V) and only in those 5 orders above!!

The other good news, is that the question will only be in C, G, D or F Major!!


This link takes you through the method in great detail.