Grade 6 Music Theory, Unit 16, Lesson 8 of 12
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Week 8: Modulation and melody writing

Music theory, Weekly review, 10 minutes

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Related keys, pivot chords, spotting where a melody has gone, and writing a melody that modulates.

This week's skills

From C major to its dominant, G major: F sharp arrives in bar 3 and the phrase closes in G

Check each skill of week 8; anything shaky, read the lessons again in Modulation and melody writing, then come back.

The skills to check
  • The dominant, subdominant and relative keys
  • A pivot chord that belongs to both keys
  • A returning accidental and a cadence in the new key
  • An 8-bar melody for an instrument

You try In the example, which note tells you the music has gone to G major?

Show the answer

F sharp: the new key's accidental, which keeps returning.

The rest of this lesson and its 7 practice questions are in Brainlag Music Theory.

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