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ABRSM Music Theory Grade 5

ABRSM has changed to Online Theory Exam starting from the year 2021. The following handout is created to help students to prepare for the exam. 

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What is covered in ABRSM Music Theory Grade 5?

  • Irregular time signatures and note and rest groupings

  • The Tenor C clef

  • The interval of transposition up or down: major 2nd, minor 3rd and perfect 5th

  • Scales and key signatures of all major and minor keys up to and including six sharps and flats.

  • All simple and compound intervals from any note.

  • The root position (a), 1st inversion (b) and 2nd inversion (c) forms of the tonic, supertonic, subdominant and dominant chords in any of the keys.

  •  Perfect, imperfect and plagal cadences

  • Terms and signs

  • The recognition of ornaments

  • Types of voice and names of instruments, the clefs they use, instrument family groups and the basic way by which they produce sound

  • General musical observation designed to test the candidate’s ability to apply theoretical knowledge to actual music 

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Time Signature

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Compound Time

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Simple to Compound Time

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Compound to Simple Time

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Key Signature

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Enharmonic Equivalent

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Technical Names

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Cadences

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Percussion Definite Pitch

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Percussion Indefinite Pitch

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Transposing Instruments

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String Family

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Brass Family

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Woodwind Family

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