First Steps Music Theory Grades 1-5

This introduction to the essential elements of music is ideal for students preparing for examinations, as well as an excellent resource for everyone learning to read music.

Contents:

Grade 1 
Time values 
Bars and time signatures 
Letter names of notes 
The stave and clefs 
Writing on a staff 
Ledger lines 
Sharps, flats and naturals 
C major scale 
Rests 
Tied and dotted notes 
G, D and F major scales 
Keys and key signatures 
Accidentals 
Tonic triads 
Intervals 

Grade 2 
Time signatures 
Triplets 
Grouping of notes and rests 
Ledger lines 
A, Bb and Eb scales 
Harmonic and melodic forms of minor scales 
Relative major and minor keys 

Grade 3 
Simple and compound time 
Demisemiquaver notes and rests 
Upbeat starts 
Ledger lines and octave signs 
Octave transposition 
E and Ab major scales 
Minor scales 

Grade 4 
Breves 
Double dots 
Regular time signatures 
Duplets 
Double sharps and flats 
B and G# major scales 
Triads & chords on the tonic, subdominant and dominant 
Chromatic scale 
Alto clef 

Grade 5 
Irregular time signatures and time divisions 
Tenor clef 
Diatonic and chromatic intervals 
Compound intervals 
Inversions of triads 
6/4 5/3 progression 
Chords at cadence points 
Transposing instruments