Term 3, Lesson 12 and 13 - Friday 9th and Monday 12th June

During these lessons we worked on a past Grade 5 paper.

We came across three things that have either not been covered or not in a great deal of detail.


1) Tuplets

We have already come across the triplet which means 3 in the time of 2. There are other similar things, which are nicknamed "tuplets"

2. Duplets: 2 in the time of 3
3. Triplets: 3 in the time of 2
4. Quadruplets: 4:3
5. Quintuplets: 5:4
6. Sextuplets: 6:4
7. Septuplets: 7:4
8. Octuplets: 8:6
9. Nontuplets. 9:8



2) Compound Intervals

These are intervals bigger than an octave. 

Hopefully the image below is self-explanatory. "Major 9th" and "compound major 2nd" are equally correct so you could use either in an exam unless they state otherwise.

Remember: because a 9th is a compound 2nd, it should be described similarly as major, minor, augmented or diminished.

3) Pedal Markings

This link has some excellent stuff on piano pedals and how they are notated (alongside lots of other excellent stuff on notation generally)