This is a comprehensive grade 5 music theory course PDF following the ABRSM syllabus.
This PDF is also available as part of the Complete Video Course
Contents:
- Notation basics
- Foreign musical terms (complete list, all grades)
- Time signatures
- Clefs
- Key signatures
- Scales (major, minor and chromatic)
- Intervals and their qualities
- Transposing
- Chords
- Cadences and progressions
- General knowledge about the standard orchestral instruments
- Practice exam
This PDF covers ABRSM topics from grades 1-5 and is suitable if you haven't studied much music theory before but wish to take grade 5.
If you've already studied grades 1-4, please see the "normal" Grade 5 Course PDF.
Each chapter provides a step-by-step explanation of the theory, with lots of musical examples.
Each chapter is followed by a series of practice exercises.
All answers are provided. Suitable for home-study, or for use with your music teacher (age 10-adult).
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