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Level 1A Level 1B Notes • Name notes on Treble and Bass clefs • Add one ledger line above/below staff • No ledger lines • Middle

Key None • Major Key signatures: C, F, and G signatures Scales No scales • Major Scale Pattern- WWH W WWH • Identify C, F, and G Major scales Intervals • Identify steps (2nds), skips (3rds), and • Add 4ths, 5ths, no quality repeats. No quality identification • Identify half steps and whole steps • Name or write notes up/down, 2nds, 3rds and repeats Triads None • Identify C, F, and G Major triads, root position, by letter name • Quarter, half, dotted half, whole notes • Add 2/4 time • 3/4 or 4/4 • Eighth note pairs • write missing bar lines, give , or • Quarter, half, whole rests write counts for rhythm • Notes equal to rests or write counts for rhythm • Common time • ties Music History Know names of Festival solos • Know names And composers of Festival solos

Terms • forte • mezzo forte • piano • mezzo piano • • fine • • natural • interval • • time signature • rit. • treble • tie • bass clef • slur • flat • triad • sharp • • double bar line Scale Degrees None None Form None None

Cadences None None • Ear Training • high, low, middle sounds • legato or staccato • forte and piano sounds • 3 note patterns up, down, or repeat • pairs of notes up, down, or repeat basic rhythm (see above) basic rhythm patterns (see above)

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Level 2A Level 2B Notes • Write notes in 4 places on the grand staff, • Place notes and rests on staff i.e. 4 G’s • Add sixteenth notes and rests • Single eighth notes and rests • Add 2 ledger lines between staves • Draw stems on note heads • Add 2 ledger lines above/below staff Key • Major and minor keys up to 2#’s, 2b’s • Identify and/or write major and natural minor signatures key signatures through 3#’s and 3b’s Scales • Major scales up to 2#’s and 2b’s with • Add natural minor scales accidentals or key signatures • Relative major/minor scales up to 3#’s and 3b’s

th th Intervals • Add 6ths, 7 ’s and 8 ’s. No quality • Identify number and quality, perfect or major identification

Triads • Add C, F, and G minor triads • Add Db, Eb, Ab major and minor , root position, • Add D, A, and E major and minor, root letter name and quality position, letter name and quality

Rhythm • Add 6/8 time • Add sixteenth notes and rests • Dotted quarter, single eighth note and rest • Add 3/8 and 2/2 time • Meaning of top and bottom numbers of the time signature • Add notes or rests to complete measure

Music History • Baroque Period: see additional information • Add Classical Period: see additional information on page 14 on page 14 Terms • beam • fortissimo • flag • pianissimo • decrescendo • andante • crescendo • presto • adagio • D.S. • moderato • accelerando • allegro • coda • D.C. • diminuendo • primo • sempre • secondo • double sharp • octave • double flat • simple meter • 8va • accent • relative major/minor • compound meter • alla breve/cut time Scale Degrees • Number scale degrees 1-7 • Tonic I • Dominant V Form • Phrase • Period • Strophic, one part form

Cadences None • Authentic cadence- V I or V7 I • Ear Training • Identify Major/Minor triads • Identify M2, P5, P8 • Half steps and whole steps • Distinguish major/natural minor scales • Basic (see above) • Triads and basic rhythms (see above)

Theory and Musicianship

Level 3A Level 3B Notes • Enharmonic flats and sharps • Add 4 ledger lines above, below and between • Add three ledger lines above, below and staffs between staffs

Key • Key signatures up to 4 b’s and 4 #’s • Write major and minor key signatures in treble signatures • Write major and minor keys signatures in and Bass clefs up to 5 b’s and 5 #’s treble and bass • Write order of sharps • Write order of the flats Scales • Major scales and natural minors up to 4#’s • Add harmonic minor scales and 4b’s • Add up to 5 #’s and 5 b’s Intervals • Add minor quality • Add diminished quality • Add tritone

Triads • Add F#/Gb, B, and Bb minor triads • Add diminished triads st nd • Add 1 inversion • Add 2 inversion

Rhythm • Increasingly complex rhythms, syncopation • Increasingly complex rhythms with quarter and half notes, triplets • Syncopation with eighth and quarter notes

Music History • Add Romantic Period, dates and • Add Modern Period, dates and characteristics characteristics • Composers: Kabalevsky, Bartok, Gershwin • Composers: Schubert, Schuman, Chopin Terms • sf • vivace • allegretto • animato • largo • meno • a • piu • con • poco a poco • senza • cantabile • simile • tritone • dolce • expressivo • poco • supertonic • • mediant • moto • submediant • subdominant • leading tone • prestissiomo • --ando • --issimo Piano: • --etto • damper pedal • una corda

Scale Degrees • Subdominant (IV) • Supertonic • Median • Submediant • Leading tone Form • Theme and variation • Three part form (ternary) ABA • Two-part (binary) form, AB • Rondo form ABACAD

Cadences • Add Plagal Cadence IV I • Add Half Cadence- I V • Ear Training • Add Major 3, 6, 7 and Perfect 4 Intervals • Add minor intervals • Triads and rhythms as above • Add harmonic scales • Triads and basic rhythms (see above)

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Theory and Musicianship

Level 4A Level 4B

Key • Write major and minor key signatures in • Write major and minor key signatures in treble Signatures treble and bass clef up to 6 #’s and 6 b’s and bass clef up to 7 #’s and 7 b’s

Scales • Identify or write major, minor, harmonic • Identify or write major, minor, harmonic and and melodic scales up to 6 #’s and 6 b’s melodic scales up to 7 #’s and 7b’s • Identify write or define a chromatic scale • Identify, write, define or match a parallel major/minor scale, or whole tone scale Intervals • Add augmented quality

Chords • Add augmented triads (all inversions) • Add major, minor, half-diminshed and • Add dominant 7 chords V7 all inversions diminished seven chords in root position Rhythm • Increasingly complex rhythms, syncopation • Increasingly complex rhythms, with sixteenth and eighth notes, sixteenth • add thirty-second notes note triplets Music History Add composers: Add composers: • Baroque- Purcell, Couperin • Baroque- Rameau • Classical- Kuhlau, Beethoven (Noting • Classical- Haydn romantic characteristics) • Romantic- Brahms, Gottschalk, Granados, Liszt, • Romantic- Grieg, MacDowell, Wagner, Rachmaninoff Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky • Modern- Copland, Prokofiev, Stravinsky • Modern- Villa Lobos • Add Impressionistuc style: Characteristics and composers- Debussy, Ravel, Satie, Fauré, Griffes

Terms • lento scherzando • sforzato mode • andantino semplice • calando parallel key/scale • morendo modulation • perdendosi Piano: • stringendo transposition • sotto • tempo Piano: • cadenza main droit (m.d.) • rubato sostenuto • quasi main gauche (m.g.) • --ino pedal • fuoco Strings: • troppo tre corda • agitato collegno • non mano destra (m.d.) • sui ponticello • grazioso mano sinistra (m. s.) • risoluto sui tasto • appassionato Strings: • teneramente con sordino • con brio pizzicato (pizz.) • ad libitum senza sordino • leggerio detaché • maestoso arco • pesante frog Scale degrees • Write scale degrees as requested • Write triad as requested

Form • Sonata allegro form • Outline the basic four movements of symphonies/sonatas in order • Cadences • Identify cadences including authentic, • Add deceptive cadence plagal and half • Write cadences or identify by Roman numeral Ear Training • Add tritone • Add augmented intervals • Add melodic minor and chromatic scales • Add whole tone scale, chords and rhythms as • Add diminished intervals, chords and above rhythm as above

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