Summative review of Preparatory–Level 4.
New concepts include:
• major and minor keys up to four sharps or flats
• triad inversions and dominant 7th chords
• 6/8 time
• expanded melody writing
• analysis through repertoire exploration
• practice exam questions
Sample pages
Exploring the Repertoire activities provide an opportunity to hear and play a piece of music while discovering how theory concepts come alive. Many of these pieces have been selected from The Royal Conservatory repertoire and etudes books. Listen as your teacher plays them for you, play them yourself, or listen to them here!
Unit 1, page 15
Staccato Prelude, op. 31, no. 6, Samuel Maykapar
From Celebration Series®, 2015 Edition: Piano Etudes 5
Unit 2, page 32
Wild Mignonette, op. 205, no. 1, Cornelius Gurlitt
From Celebration Series®, 2015 Edition: Piano Repertoire 3
Unit 2, page 33
March of the Tin Soldiers, op. 25, no. 1, Génari Karganov
From Celebration Series®, 2015 Edition: Piano Repertoire 5
Unit 3, page 50
Allegretto, op. 35, no. 8, Fernando Sor
From Bridges®: A Comprehensive Guitar Series: Guitar Repertoire and Studies 5
Bridges® recording unavailable.
Unit 3, page 51
Etude, Études enfantines, op. 37, no.44 Henry Lemoine
Recording unavailable.
Unit 4, page 55
Entrée, Anonymous
From Celebration Series Perspectives®: Piano Repertoire 2
Recording coming soon.
Unit 5, page 60
Air, HWV 471, George Frideric Handel
From Celebration Series®, 2015 Edition: Piano Repertoire 4
Gigue a l'Angloise, from TWV 32:1, George Philipp Telemann
In Celebration Series®, 2015 Edition: Piano Repertoire 3
Unit 7, page 82
Little Prelude, BWV 939 from Fünf kleine Präludien, Johann Sebastian Bach
From Celebration Series Perspectives®: Piano Repertoire 5
Recording unavailable.
Unit 8, page 87
The Wild Horseman, op. 68, no. 8, from Album für die Jugend, Robert Schumann
From Celebration Series Perspectives®: Piano Repertoire 4
Recording unavailable.
Unit 8, page 88
Quadrille, Hob. IX:29/6, Franz Joseph Haydn
Recording unavailable.