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Friday 16 June 2017

Term 3, Last Lesson - Friday 16th June

Over the Summer, I would recommend that you learn the Grade 4 Italian (and French) terms.

The full list (Grades 1-5) can be found here.
(if you want to filter or reorganise the words, make a copy in your GoogleDrive or just download it as an .xls file which can be read in Microsoft Excel. If you don't have that, get OpenOffice which work just as well and is free.).


Here are the Grade 4 words:


a to, atFrench
affettuoso tenderlyItalian
affrettando hurryingItalian
amabile amiable, pleasantItalian
animé animated, livelyFrench
appassionato with passionItalian
assez enough, sufficientlyFrench
avec withFrench
calandogetting softer, dying away (and usually slowing down)Italian
cantando singingItalian
cédez yield, relax the speedFrench
come as, similar to (eg. come prima, as before; come sopra, as above)Italian
doucesweetFrench
en dehors prominent (a direction to make a melody stand out)French
et andFrench
facileeasyItalian
fuoco fireItalian
giustoproper, exact (tempo giusto: in strict time)Italian
l'istessothe same (eg. l'istesso tempo: at the same speed)Italian
légèrementlightFrench
lent slowFrench
mais butFrench
modéréat a moderate speedFrench
moins lessFrench
morendo dying awayItalian
niente nothingItalian
nobilmente noblyItalian
non notFrench
perdendosi dying awayItalian
peulittleFrench
plus moreFrench
possibile possible (eg. presto possibile: as fast as possible)Italian
presserhurry (en pressant: hurrying on)French
quasias if, resemblingItalian
ralentirslow downFrench
retenuheld back (en retenant: holding back, slowing a little)French
sans withoutFrench
sonororesonant, with rich toneItalian
sopra aboveItalian
sotto below (sotto voce: in an undertone)Italian
très veryFrench
un, uneoneFrench
veloceswiftItalian
viflivelyFrench
vite quickFrench
vocevoiceItalian





Some ideas and resources:

This link is a good one if you want to go through everything again.
(it approaches things in a different way and a different order to how we have done things in lessons so you may find it useful if you have missed lessons or if there are areas you have not understood).
Or you could through bits of it. It is full of exercises together with answers. There is a full practice Grade 5 theory paper on the site as well.

Italian Terms, Scale Degrees, dynamic markings, articulation markings, clefs: these are all things that are just a matter of learning... You could get together with a class mate to test one another or  make cue cards for yourself...

Scales: all the information you need is on the blog. I think the best way of revising this is just to practise writing them all out. With and without key signatures. You may wish to fill in a blank circle of fifths like we did in the lesson. You can find one here. You might want to practise writing out chromatic scales as well.

Chords: again, writing them out would be useful. Make sure you have read and understood the information on inversions.

Intervals: I would recommend that you work out a method that is going to work for you! This could be working it out from major scales or counting semitones.


You can buy past papers from various places if you want to practise and gain more familiarity with the format.

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