LEVEL 12

NOTATION OF PITCH: Identify and Draw: All notes possible for treble staff and bass staff NOTATION OF RHYTHM: Identify and Draw: Half note triplet and sixteenth note triplet KEY SIGNATURES AND SCALES: Identify and Draw: All relative Major and natural (pure) and harmonic minor keys ascending All melodic minor scales ascending and descending Whole tone scale, beginning on either C, C sharp or F sharp ascending Draw scales one octave ascending. Use whole notes. Use accidentals as needed. HARMONIC STUDY: Identify and Draw: Augmented and diminished triads (chords) above any note Identify: Quality of each triad built on each degree of the Major and harmonic minor scale INTERVALS: Identify and Draw: Augmented 5ths above any note TERMINOLOGY: melodic minor scale: natural minor scale raising 6th and 7th scale degrees one-half step ascending and lowering 6th and 7th scale degrees one-half step descending cadenza: brilliant, showy passage for solo instrument or voice quasi: almost bravura: musical passage requiring considerable technical skill ben: well, very embellishment: a musical ornament tremolo: rapid repetition of a pitch or between two pitches ii, supertonic: second degree of the scale iii, mediant: third degree of the scale vi, submediant: sixth degree of the scale vii, leading tone: seventh degree of the scale MUSICAL EXAMPLE: Identify any of the concepts studied thus far in a musical example AURAL AWARENESS: (Same as Level 11) Identify: sound of interval as Maj. 3rd, Perf. 4th, Aug. 4th sound of scale as Major, chromatic, whole tone sound of triad (chord) as Major, Augmented, diminished sound of cadence as authentic, plagal, deceptive Distinguish: sound of interval as diminished 5th or diminished 7th Complete: musical example using note values and pitches in 9/8 REVIEW MATERIAL: Level 12 test will contain concepts from previous levels.