ABRSM Music Theory | Grade 8

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Introduction to ABRSM Grade 8 Music Theory Preview
PDF & Introduction to the Grade 8 Course

Extended Dominants (V9, V11, V13) Preview
Chromatic Chords Preview
Parallel Keys Preview
Borrowed Chords Preview
Chord iv (Minor Subdominant in Major Keys)
Chord bVI (Flattened Submediant in Major Keys)
Chord ii° (Diminished Supertonic in Major Keys)
Augmented 6ths (French, Italian & German)
Secondary Dominants
Other Chromatic Chords

Distant Modulation
Identifying the Prevailing Key

Reminder: 7th Chord Figures
Figured Bass | 4-3 Suspension
Figured Bass | 9-8 Suspension
Figured Bass | 7-6 Suspension
Figured Bass | 5/4
Figured Bass | 5
Figured Bass | Figured Decoration (8-7, 5-6, etc.)

3-Part Textures Voice-Leading
3-Part Textures 5ths and Octaves
Voice-Leading Minor Keys
False Relations

Inverted Cadence
Harmonic Rhythm
Cadences Cheat Sheet

Harmonic Analysis with Decoration

What is a Trio Sonata?
Corelli Op.3, no.2, 1st Movement
The ABRSM Trio Sonata Question
Trio Sonata Method | Step 1 - Dissonances
7ths Chords Practice
Trio Sonata Method | Step 2 - Leading Notes
Trio Sonata Method | Step 3 - Roots, Thirds and Fifths
Trio Sonata Method | Step 4 - Patterns
Trio Sonata Method | Step 5 - Momentum
Trio Sonata Walkthrough (Part 1)
Trio Sonata Walkthrough (Part 2)

Introduction to the Keyboard Reconstruction Question
Working with the Harmony
Using Second Inversions
Texture and Part-Writing
Voice Leading and Consecutives (Parallels)
Notation
Phrases, Patterns and Sequences
Alberti Bass
A Worked Example Part 1
A Worked Example Part 2

Grade 8 Composition Marking Criteria
Analysis of the Given Opening
Creating a Structure
Adapting a Melodic Idea 1 - Sequences
Adapting a Melodic Idea 2 - Other Techniques
Creating a Contrast
Making Phrases Preview
Planning Modulations
How to Modulate
Performance Directions
Instrument Considerations
PDF of Composition Openings for Practice
Grade 8 Composition Walkthrough

Questions 4 and 5
Orchestral Pitch
Intervals
Transposition
False Relations
Questions about Chords
Names of Chords
Triads and the Neapolitan 6th
Added 7th Chords
Augmented 6th Chords (It. Fr., Ger.)
Extended Dominants (V9, V11, V13)
Rhythm & Tremolo
Texture (Homophonic/Polyphonic)
Melodic Decoration
Suspensions
Writing Out Ornaments
Musical Eras
Describing Sound
Foreign Terms (including instruments, keys etc.)

What's After Grade 8?