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Trinity Grade 5 Music Theory
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Trinity Grade 5 Music Theory

A complete course covering the Trinity Grade 5 Music Theory syllabus.
Last updated 1/2026
English

What you'll learn

  • Pass Trinity Grade 5 Music Theory with Distinction!
  • Build on your knowledge of how music works, and how to pass the Trinity exam
  • Further your skills in composition and harmony
  • Practise your skills with the included PDF, exercises and tests!

Course content

13 sections51 lectures1h 49m total length
  • Introduction to Trinity Grade 5 Music Theory1:52
  • Music Theory Cheat Sheet Download0:04

Requirements

  • You should already have covered the topics in Trinity Grades 1-4 Music Theory
  • You don't need any extra equipment or software to take this course - all materials are provided.
  • You need to be motivated to learn how music works

Description

Grade 5 Music Theory Trinity


This Grade 5 Music Theory video courses covers the Trinity syllabus in full.


Rhythm and Form

  • Time signatures of 4/2, 6/4 and 7/4

  • Time signature changes within an extract

  • Rules for grouping note and rest values within new time signatures (including grouping indications at the beginning of bars or scores, e.g. 2,3 or 3,2)

  • Grouping demisemiquavers (32nd notes) in simple and compound time

  • Semiquaver (16th note) triplets

  • The breve (double whole note)

  • Strophic, Verse and Refrain (or Chorus) and binary forms


Pitch

  • Naming and using notes in tenor clef

  • Ab, Db, E and B major keys (for all major keys for the grade: scales, key signatures, one-octave arpeggios, broken chords and tonic triads (root, first or second inversion))

  • F, Bb, C# and G# minor keys (for all minor keys for the grade: scales — natural (Aeolian mode) and harmonic and melodic, key signatures, one-octave arpeggios, broken chords and tonic triads (root, first or second inversion))

  • Identifying the key of a piece in Ab, Db, E or B major, and F, Bb, C# or G# minor

  • 2nd degree of the major/minor scale being known as the supertonic or re (major keys only)

  • Supertonic triads for all keys covered so far

  • Major/minor supertonic triad labelled:
    — as a chord symbol above the music (e.g. Dm in the key of C major or B dim (or B°) in the key of A minor)
    — as a Roman numeral below the music (e.g. ii in the key of C major or ii° (dim) in the key of A minor)

  • Recognising imperfect cadences

  • Double sharps and double flats and general enharmonic equivalents

  • Recognising and writing C and G pentatonic major scales

  • Inversions of all intervals covered in Grades 1–4 within an octave

  • Recognising and writing accented passing notes and understanding acciaccatura, appoggiatura, upper and lower mordents and trills

  • Understanding upper and lower auxiliary notes

  • Writing tonic, supertonic, subdominant, dominant or dominant 7th chords in root, first or second inversions in any key for the grade as well-balanced 4-part chords for SATB

  • Transposing a tune up or down any major, minor or perfect interval within an octave (within the keys for the grade) or for transposing instruments for the grade

  • Ranges of the alto saxophone in Eb and trumpet and clarinet in Bb as defined in the Trinity workbook

  • Concept of modulation

  • Identifying a modulation to the dominant or the relative major/minor keys

  • Musical terms and symbols

Who this course is for:

  • This course is for candidates preparing for Trinity Grade 5 Music Theory