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Trinity Grade 3 Syllabus

Rhythm

  • Compound time (time signatures of 6/8, 9/8 and 12/8 )
  • Grouping semiquavers and semiquaver rests in simple and compound time (16th notes and rests)
  • Dotted quavers and dotted quaver rests in simple and compound time (dotted 8th notes)
  • Rules for grouping note and rest values within 6/8, 9/8 and 12/8 time signatures
  • Quaver triplets (8th note triplets)
  • Anacrusis
  • Ties using new note values

Pitch

  • Naming and using notes in treble or bass clefs (to three ledger lines above or below the stave)
  • Bb and D major keys (for all major keys for the grade: scales, key signatures, one-octave arpeggios, broken chords and tonic triads (root or first inversion)
  • G and B minor keys (for all minor keys for the grade: scales — natural (Aeolian mode) and harmonic and melodic, key signatures, one-octave arpeggios, broken chords and tonic triads (root or first inversion)
  • Second inversions of major and minor tonic triads of keys covered so far
  • Identifying the key of a piece in Bb or D major and G or B minor
  • 5th degree of the major/minor scale being known as the dominant or soh (major keys only)
  • Dominant triads for all keys covered so far
  • Major/minor dominant triad labelled:
    — as a chord symbol above the music (e.g. G in the key of C major or Em (E where the 7th
    degree is raised) in the key of A minor)
    — as a Roman numeral below the music (e.g. V in the key of C major or v (V where the 7th degree
    is raised) in the key of A minor)
  • 7th degree of the major/minor scale being known as the leading note
  • Understanding the term ‘chord progression’
  • Recognising a perfect cadence in the home key (major or minor)
  • Intervals (major/minor 6th, major/minor 7th above any tonic for the grade)
  • Writing tonic chords in root position in any key for the grade as well-balanced 4-part chords for SATB
  • Real and tonal sequences
  • Similar and contrary motion
  • Transposing a tune up or down an octave from treble clef to bass clef and vice versa
  • Ranges of violin, flute, cello, bassoon, as defined in the workbook
  • Knowing that violin and cello are string instruments, flute and bassoon are woodwind instruments
  • Musical terms and symbols

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