| 1st Year Syllabus
1) Musical Alphabet[Forwards & Backwards]
2) Notes[Quarter, Half, Dotted Half, Whole]
3) Rests[Whole, Half, Quarter]
4) Registers[Names of Octaves]
5) Treble Clef
6) Time Signature[2/4 time]
7) Eighth Notes
8) Major & Minor[Tonic]
9) C-Major Scale
10) Tonic Triad
11) Leading Tones
12) "Tone" & "Half Tone" - Whole
Step/Half Step
13) Sharp, Flat, Natural
14) Key Signatures and accidentals
15) G Major Scale
16) F Major Scale
17) Transposition
18) Music Phrases
19) D-Major Scale
20) Repeat Sign
21) Bass Clef
22) Slur
23) Bb Major Scale
24) Each lesson Includes Melodic dictation in one voice,
Rhythmic exercises, and Solfege exercises
2nd Year Syllabus
1) A Major Scale
2) Eb Major Scale
3) Time Signature[ ¾ time]
4) Upbeat
5) E Major Scale
6) Ab Major Scale
7) A Tie[Staccato, Slur]
8) Dotted Rhythm[ dotted quarter + eighth]
9) Fermata
10) Notation[Steps, Skips]
11) Intervals [ 2nd, 3rd]
12) B Major Scale
13) Scale degrees[Tonic, Subdominant, Dominant]
14) Stable, Unstable scale degrees
15) Db Major Scale
16) Time Signature[ 4/4 Time]
17) Major and minor 2nd in Major Mode
18) Major and minor 3rd in Major mode
19) Perfect 4th in Major Mode
20) Perfect 5th in Major Mode
21) F# Major Scale
22) Gb Major Scale
23) Each lesson includes melodic dictation in one voice,
Rhythmic exercises, & Solfege exercises
3rd Year Syllabus
1) Tritones in Major mode
2) a minor scale/ Three types of minor
3) e minor scale
4) d minor scale
5) Major and minor Triad and names of tones
6) Seconds in Harmonic minor
7) Thirds in Harmonic minor
8) C# Major scale
9) Primary Chords in Major and minor
10) Cb Major Scale
11) Sixteenth notes[six combinations]
12) Sixth in Major mode[major & minor 6th]
13) Inversion of Triads
14) b minor scale
15) Seventh in Major mode[Major & minor 7th]
16) Inversion of Intervals[simple]
17) g minor scale
18) Dynamic & Tempo designations
19) f# minor scale
20) c minor scale
21) Dominant Seventh Chord
22) Each lesson includes melodic dictation in one voice,
Rhythmic exercises, & Solfege exercises
4th Year Syllabus
1) c# minor scale
2) f minor scale
3) Time Signature[6/8, 9/8, 12/8]
4) Double Sharp
5) g# minor scale
6) Triplets
7) Bb minor scale
8) Double Flat
9) Chart or Table of Intervals [simple]
10) Relative mode
11) Stable & Unstable Intervals in mode
12) Resolution of Intervals in mode
13) Resolving IV & V Triads and their inversions in
the Tonic
14) Leading Seventh Chords [VII fully diminished seventh
& VII half-diminished seventh]
15) Table of Major and minor scales
16) Tetrachords
17) Enharmonically equal scales
18) Circle of Fifths[Name Key Signatures]
19) d# minor scale
20) eb minor scale
21) Altering Major Intervals
22) Altering Perfect Intervals
23) General Circle of Fifths[Major & minor scales]
24) Each lesson includes melodic dictation in one voice,
Rhythmic exercises, & Solfege exercises
Fifth Year Syllabus
1) a# minor scale
2) ab minor scale
3) Parallel Scales
4) Inversion of Dominant Seventh
5) Building Inversions of Dominant 7ths from any key
6) Syncopation
7) Fourths in Harmonic minor
8) Fifths in Harmonic minor
9) Connection of Primary Chords[voice leading]
10) Progression of Primary Chords
11) Characteristic intervals of harmonic minor
12) Enharmonically equivalent intervals
13) Consonance[Perfect & Imperfect]
14) Dissonance
15) Sequences[Ascending & Descending]
16) Diminished & Augmented Triads
17) Building Chords from any Key
18) The Chromatic Scale
19) Closely Related Keys
20) Modulation in related Keys
21) Cadences
22) The Period
23) Embellishments
24) Tempi
25) Glossary
26) Musical Terms & Symbols
27) Each lesson includes melodic dictation in one voice,
Rhythmic exercises, & Solfege exercises
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