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Test your skills and knowledge of Grade Five Music Theory with this free online practice test!

 

The questions are based on the ABRSM syllabus and cover:

  • names of notes and rests
  • all regular, irregular, simple and compound time signatures and grouping within these time signatures
  • keys, scales and tonic triads in keys with up to six sharps/flats
  • chromatic scales
  • intervals by number and quality, including compound intervals
  • degrees of the scale and technical names
  • tonic, dominant and subdominant triads and their inversions
  • cadences
  • score-based questions
  • Italian musical terms and frequently used symbols
  • treble, bass alto and tenor clefs
  • transposition between clefs and for transposing instruments

The pass mark is 50/75. A score of 60+ will earn you a “merit” and 65+ a “distinction”.

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Grade 5 Music Theory Test

1 / 70

Select the correct time signature for this bar:

time sig

2 / 70

Select the correct time signature for this bar:

time sig

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Select the correct time signature for this bar:

time sig

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Which of the three bars below is the correct rewriting of this bar?

rewriting

5 / 70

Complete the sentence by typing a number.
This time signature means there are _______ dotted crotchet (dotted quarter note) beats per bar.
time signature

error

6 / 70

Complete the sentence by typing a number.
This time signature means there are _______ quaver (eighth note) beats per bar.
time signature

error

7 / 70

Which of the following bars is grouped correctly? 

8 / 70

True or false? The box shows correctly written rest(s). rests

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True or false? The box shows correctly written rest(s). rests

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True or false? The box shows correctly written rest(s). rests

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What is the name of this note?note

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What is the name of this note?note

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Which of the below notes is the correct enharmonic equivalent of this note?
note

14 / 70

Transpose this key signature down a major 2nd.

key sig

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Transpose this note up a perfect 5th.

note

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Transpose this note down a minor 3rd.

note

17 / 70

Transpose this note down a perfect 5th.

note

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Transpose this note down a minor 3rd.

note

19 / 70

Look at these notes then choose the correct sentence.

 

20 / 70

Look at these notes then choose the correct sentence.

 

21 / 70

Look at these notes then choose the correct sentence.

 

22 / 70

Which of these shows the correctly written key signature of Bb minor?

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Which of these shows the correctly written key signature of C sharp minor?

24 / 70

What is the key of this melody? key

25 / 70

What is the key of this melody? key

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What is the key of this melody? key

27 / 70

Which two notes are missing from this scale of C# minor melodic? scale

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Select the clef which will make this into a minor scale.
scale

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Select the clef which will make this into a major scale.
scale

30 / 70

Select the clef which will make this into a major scale.
scale

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True or false: this is a correctly written chromatic scale?
chromatic

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True or false: this is a correctly written chromatic scale?
chromatic

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This is the submediant note in E flat minor – true or false?
note

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This is the submediant note in B flat major – true or false?
note

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This is the mediant in D minor – true or false?
note

36 / 70

What is this interval?

bassnotenote

37 / 70

What is this interval?

bassnotenote

38 / 70

What is this interval?

bassnotenote

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What type of interval is this?

treblenotenote

40 / 70

What type of interval is this?

treblenotenote

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What type of interval is this?

note

42 / 70

Which of the below notes is a compound augmented 6th higher than this note?
note

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Which of the below notes is a compound diminished 3rd higher than this note?
note

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Which of the below notes is a perfect 4th higher than this note?note

45 / 70

Which of the below notes is a major 7th higher than this note?note

46 / 70

Which of these are three suitable chords to use at the places marked A, B and C, to form a cadence?cadence

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Which of these are three suitable chords to use at the places marked A, B and C, to form a cadence?cadence

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What type of cadence is this?
cadence

49 / 70

What type of cadence is this?
cadence

50 / 70

Name the chord marked in the box. The key is E flat major.

chord

51 / 70

Name the chord marked in the box. The key is A minor.

chord

52 / 70

Name the chord marked in the box. The key is A major.

chord

53 / 70

What does ad libitum mean?

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What does triste mean?

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What does affetuoso mean?

56 / 70

What type of written-out ornament is this?

ornament

57 / 70

What type of written-out ornament is this?

ornament

58 / 70

The snare drum produces sounds of an indefinite pitch:

59 / 70

The baritone voice is lower than the mezzo-soprano voice:

60 / 70

The flute uses a reed to produce its sound:

61 / 70

The horn is a transposing instrument:

62 / 70

The violin is the highest member of the string family:

63 / 70

Look at the following extract which has been adapted from a piece for cello and piano by A. Longo, and answer the question.

Which of these bars show(s) bars 3-4 of the cello part at the same pitch as the original?

score

 

 

score

64 / 70

Look at the following extract which has been adapted from a piece for cello and piano by A. Longo, and answer the question.

Which is the correct way to complete bar 7, box E, with rests?
rests

 

score

65 / 70

Look at the following extract which has been adapted from a piece for cello and piano by A. Longo, and answer the question.

What is the total value of the tied Gs in the left-hand piano part, from bars 1-4?

66 / 70

Look at the following extract which has been adapted from a piece for cello and piano by A. Longo, and answer the question.

What does the final bar line tell the player to do?

67 / 70

Look at the following extract which has been adapted from a piece for cello and piano by A. Longo, and answer the question.

The cello belongs to the string family. What is the name of the lowest sounding standard orchestral instrument in this family?

68 / 70

Look at the following extract which has been adapted from a piece for cello and piano by A. Longo, and answer the question.

Is the time signature of this piece simple or compound?

69 / 70

Look at the following extract which has been adapted from a piece for cello and piano by A. Longo, and answer the question.

Give the letter name of the highest sounding note in the cello part.

70 / 70

Look at the following extract which has been adapted from a piece for cello and piano by A. Longo, and answer the question.

Explain the symbol below the chord marked A in bar 4 of the left-hand piano part.