Course topics.

Try this with Music

1. Compare the topic list with the current course outline from your school.
2. Pick a topic you can partly explain and identify the exact part you want to work through.
3. Bring one example of the kind of question or task your school uses.

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Topics in the resource inventory

• Interval recognition by ear: major, minor, perfect and tritone within an octave
• Hearing tonality, scales/modes and modulation to the relative, dominant or subdominant key
• Rhythmic dictation: simple, compound and irregular metre, grouping, rests and time signatures
• Melodic dictation up to eight bars in a major or minor key, including rubato and vibrato
• Chord progressions by ear (I, ii, iii, IV, V, V7, vi) and chord-quality recognition
• Discrepancies and aural analysis: instruments, techniques, texture, form, dynamics and articulation
• Clefs, key signatures to seven sharps and flats, and writing scales and modes
• Intervals up to a ninth: quality, size, enharmonic spelling and visual identification
• Chords and chord symbols: triads to ninth chords, m7(b5), inversions, Roman numerals, TAB and guitar chords
• Transposition between clefs and for B flat, E flat, F and A instruments
• Visual analysis: forms, signs and symbols, compositional devices and expressive markings
• Reading unseen scores: orchestral, PVG, lead sheet, drum notation and instrumental techniques
• Sonata form, key relationships and structural analysis of an unseen work
• Identifying style across Contemporary, Jazz and Western Art Music, linking unseen excerpts to designated works
• Marryuna (Baker Boy): cultural identity, Yolngu language, yidaki and hip hop
• Young, Gifted and Black (Nina Simone): sociopolitical identity, gospel heritage and harmony
• Gaelic Symphony, first movement (Amy Beach): Irish-American identity within sonata form
• Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen): through-composed form, harmony and studio technology
• Tha Thin Tha (Lisa Young): konnakol, tala and modern jazz innovation
• Short Ride in a Fast Machine (John Adams): minimalism, pulse, polyrhythm and quartal harmony