Theory of Music

Grade A 

• Keyboard Note Identification
• Line notes/Space notes
• The value of quarter note/half note/dotted half note/whole note(rest) in 4/4
• recognize p/f 
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Grade B (Incl. Grade A range.)

• Changes of simple/compound meters (including duplet and triplet and so on)
• Modulation
• Harmonic rules
• Translation of basic music style
• Inversions in intervals
• Mordent/arpeggio (ornaments)
• Concepts of Sonata musical form
• Music history - Important composers and their works in Baroque, Classic, Romantic and Modern periods
• Basic conduction

Grade C (Incl. Grade B range.)

• Treble/ alto/ bass clef used for instrument and vocal music
• Changes of simple/compound meters
• II/III/VI/VII chords in major and minor keys
• Italian musical terminology
• Long/short appoggiatura
• Music forms used in Sonata
• Musical forms of Rondo
• Music history - Basic concepts about Baroque, Classic, Romantic and Modern periods

Grade D (Incl. lower grades range.)

• Definition of alto clef
• Progression of 2 voices
• Augmented/diminished intervals
• Augmented/diminished triad
• Seventh chord inversion
• Tonic (I)/dominant (V)/sub-dominant (IV) chords in major and minor keys
• Basic Italian musical terminology
• Inverted turn (ornaments)
• Musical form analysis on binary/ternary form