Grade 6 Music Theory, Unit 16, Lesson 11 of 12
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Week 11: Harmony, rhythm and form in a score

Music theory, Weekly review, 10 minutes

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The key and cadences of an extract, its decorations, its metre and phrases, ornaments, and the instruments and voices of a score.

This week's skills

One short extract, many questions: key, cadence, metre, phrase, ornament

Check each skill of week 11; anything shaky, read the lessons again in Harmony in a score, Melody, rhythm and form, Instruments and voices and Ornaments and terms, then come back.

The skills to check
  • The key of an extract, and its cadences
  • Decorations in the top part
  • Simple or compound metre, and phrase lengths
  • Ornaments, named and written out
  • Score order, clefs and transposing parts

You try How long is the phrase in the example, and which ornament does it carry?

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Four bars, from bar 1 to bar 4; a trill, in bar 2.

The rest of this lesson and its 10 practice questions are in Brainlag Music Theory.

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  • 10 exam-style questions, marked as you go, each with a worked solution
  • Anything you get wrong is saved to your flashcards