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Grade 5 Music Theory TrinityThis Grade 5 Music Theory video courses covers the Trinity syllabus in full.Rhythm and FormTime signatures of 4/2, 6/4 and 7/4Time signature changes within an extractRules 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 timeSemiquaver (16th note) tripletsThe breve (double whole note)Strophic, Verse and Refrain (or Chorus) and binary formsPitchNaming and using notes in tenor clefAb, 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# minor2nd degree of the major/minor scale being known as the supertonic or re (major keys only)Supertonic triads for all keys covered so farMajor/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 cadencesDouble sharps and double flats and general enharmonic equivalentsRecognising and writing C and G pentatonic major scalesInversions of all intervals covered in Grades 1-4 within an octaveRecognising and writing accented passing notes and understanding acciaccatura, appoggiatura, upper and lower mordents and trillsUnderstanding upper and lower auxiliary notesWriting 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 SATBTransposing 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 gradeRanges of the alto saxophone in Eb and trumpet and clarinet in Bb as defined in the Trinity workbookConcept of modulationIdentifying a modulation to the dominant or the relative major/minor keysMusical terms and symbols

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