New concepts include:
• major and minor keys with one sharp or flat
• application of time signatures, bar lines, rests
• the harmonic minor scale
• chord symbols for tonic triads
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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
Menuetto in C Major, from Sonata in C Major, K 6, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
From Celebration Series®, 2015 Edition: Piano Repertoire 2
Unit 2, page 22
Amusement, op. 18, no. 9, Felix Horetzky
from Bridges®: A Comprehensive Guitar Series: Guitar Repertoire and Studies 2
Bridges® recording unavailable.
Unit 3, page 32
Tall Ships, Barbara McDougall, arr. Judith McIvor
From Violin Series, 2013 Edition: Violin Repertoire 2
Unit 4, page 45
Canon, Cornelius Gurlitt
From Celebration Series®, 2015 Edition: Piano Repertoire 2
Unit 6, page 63
Air in D Minor, ZT 676, Henry Purcell
From Celebration Series®, 2015 Edition: Piano Repertoire 2
Unit 7, page 71
Etude, op. 190, no. 27, Christian Louis Heinrich Köhler
From Celebration Series®, 2015 Edition: Piano Etudes 2
Unit 8, page 72
The Marching Trumpets, Boris Berlin
From Celebration Series®, 2015 Edition: Piano Repertoire Preparatory B
Unit 8, page 73
Early One Morning, Traditional English song, arr. Frederick Silvester
From Celebration Series®, 2015 Edition: Piano Repertoire 1
Unit 8, page 74
Invention, Frederick Silvester
From Celebration Series®, 2015 Edition: Piano Repertoire 2