Music Theory ABRSM Grade 7 Complete

This course covers knowledge and skills required to answer everything in the ABRSM Grade 7 Music Theory exam.

Every topic in the syllabus is explained in a concise and easy-to-follow way.

Each exam question is explained in detail, with step-by-step videos on how to tackle it.

Grade 7 ABRSM comprises five questions:

1) Adding figures to a given bass line and melody part

2) Completing a Bach-style chorale or early-Classical ear keyboard style pieces, using suitable melodic decoration and keyboard accompaniments

3) Composition of either a solo part to fit a given piano accompaniment, or a solo piece based on a given chord progression and stylistic opening.

4) and 5) A mixed bag of score-reading question (e.g. intervals, chord recognition, cadences, transposition, identification of eras, knowledge about orchestral instruments and music terms and symbols etc.) Question 4 is usually a smaller-scale chamber music score, and question 5 is usually an extract from an orchestral score.

PDF including - with detailed lessons, exercises, test and model answers. Each chapter provides a step-by-step explanation of the theory, with lots of musical examples. Each chapter is followed by a series of practice exercises. All answers are provided, including model answers for the creative questions.

Course Contents

• Chords vii7, secondary 7ths and the Neapolitan 6th

• Voice leading and exceptions to the "rules"

• Decoration notes and their use in chorales and Classical keyboard styles

• How to analyse harmony with decoration notes

• Chord progression and harmonic sequences

• Figured bass including 7th and 9th chords

• How to figure a given bass line

• Reconstructing a Baroque chorale and a Classical keyboard piece

• Writing a solo composition to fit a given piano accompaniment

• Writing a solo composition from a prompt or given chord progression

• Questions on musical scores (chamber and orchestral)

• Musical terms and symbols

• Practice test