Music Theory Courses starting March 2022

Space Music Lessons are offering an extra opportunity for pupils and the wider public to learn about Music Theory in 10 weekly sessions. The courses will cover the entire content of each grade from 1 - 5 giving opportunities to complete test papers at the end. The courses are led by a Your Space Music Lessons Teacher and will follow the ABRSM Workbook available here

As a guide each course will cover the following topics:

Grade 2

• More basics of notation including triplets and triplet notes groups
• Grouping of notes and rests
• More simple time signatures
• Extension of the stave up to two leger lines
• Some relative major and minor keys
• More terms and signs

Grade 3

• Compound time signatures and the grouping of notes and rests
• The demisemiquaver (32nd note) and its equivalent rest
• Extension of the stave up to three ledge lines
• Transposition at the octave between treble and bass clefs
• Scales and key signatures of all major and minor keys up to and including four sharps and flats, in both forms of minor scales
• Naming of intervals including type and number
• Further terms and signs

Grade 4

• All simple and compound time signatures and the grouping of rests and notes
• The breve and its equivalent rest, double dotted notes/rests and duplets
• The alto C clef and its transposition between clefs
• Enharmonic equivalents, double sharp and flat signs
• Scales and key signatures of all major and minor keys up to and including five sharps and flats, and the construction of the chromatic scale
• Technical names (tonic, supertonic etc,)
• Intervals between any two diatonic notes
• Triads and chords in root position
• More terms and signs including some French terms

Grade 5

• Irregular time signatures and the grouping of notes and rests
• The tenor C clef
• Transposition at the octave between clefs and transposition to concert pitch of instruments in Bb, A or F Scales and key signatures of all major and minor keys up to and including six sharps and flats
• All diatonic and chromatic intervals, and compound intervals
• Root position, 1st inversion and 2nd inversion forms of the tonic, supertonic, subdominant and dominant chords in any of the keys set for the grade Identification of perfect, imperfect and plagal cadences
• More terms and signs including Germans terms

Dates and Times of the Courses

• Grade 1 with Erin Sproston - Saturday mornings starting 5th March at 10.00

• Grade 2 with Olwen Macleod - Thursday evenings starting 3rd March at 18.40

• Grade 3 with Matthew House - Tuesday evenings starting 1st March at 18.00

• Grade 4 with Olwen Macleod - Thursday evenings starting 3rd March at 19.20

• Grade 5 with Emily Neagle - Friday evenings starting at 4th March at 19.15

To book a place please register on the Workshops and Courses Page.