Grade 5 Music Theory Content
Based on ABRSM syllabus:
Rhythm
- Irregular time signature
- Irregular time division: 5, 6, 7 & 9
Pitch
- Tenor clef
- Transposition
Scales & Key Signature
- Major scale: F# & Gb
- Minor scale: D# & Eb
- Key signatures up to 6 sharps & 6 flats
Triads
- Supertonic
- Inversion of triads
- Cadence
- Chords at cadence point
Interval
- Chromatic & diatonic interval
- Compound interval
Performance Direction
- Music instruments: orchestral instruments, non-orchestral instruments & voices
- Transposing instrument
- Ornaments
- Italian terms
- German terms