New concepts include:
• major and minor keys up to three sharps or flats
• transposition with change of clef
• minor intervals
• subdominant triads
• writing four-measure melodies
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Let’s Explore 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 10
March, BWV Anh. 122, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
From Celebration Series®, 2015 Edition: Piano Repertoire 4
Unit 2, page 18
To Fly Like an Eagle, Anne Crosy Gaudet
From Celebration Series®, 2015 Edition: Piano Repertoire Preparatory B
Sonatina II, op. 36, no.1, Muzio Clementi
From Celebration Series®, 2015 Edition: Piano Repertoire 3
Unit 3, page 32
Sonatina III, op. 36, no.1, Muzio Clementi
From Celebration Series®, 2015 Edition: Piano Repertoire 3
Unit 4, page 46
Soldier's March, Ludwig Mendelssohn
From Violin Series, 2013 Edition: Violin Repertoire 4
Unit 6, page 60
In the Spirit, Christopher Norton
From Celebration Series®, 2015 Edition: Piano Etudes 3
Unit 7, page 72
The Happy Farmer, op. 68, no. 10, Robert Schumann
From Celebration Series®, 2015 Edition: Piano Repertoire 4
Unit 8, page 75
Minuetto, op. 37, lesson 2, James Hook
From Celebration Series®, 2015 Edition: Piano Repertoire Preparatory B
Unit 8, page 76
Bourée, adapted from Partita for Solo Violin, BWV 1002, Johann Sebastian Bach
Recording unavailable.
Unit 8, page 77
Burlesque, from Notebook for Wolfgang (1762), Anonymous
From Celebration Series®, 2015 Edition: Piano Repertoire 1
Unit 8, page 78
Minuetto, BWV Anh. 116, attr. Johann Sebastian Bach
From Celebration Series®, 2015 Edition: Piano Repertoire 4