Trinity Grade 5 Music Theory

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A complete course covering the Trinity Grade 5 Music Theory syllabus.

Grade 5 Music Theory Trinity

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

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