Grade 8 ABRSM Music Theory Composition - Video Course
Published October 2015
"Very helpful - this will complement other learning sources very nicely e.g. the Grade 8 Theory Workbook and Anna Butterworth's Harmony in Practice. Thank you!"
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Price: £20
Grade 8 Music Theory Composition Course Content
Learn how to:
- Create a composition with a solid form (structure)
- Adapt the melodic and rhythmic ideas from the given opening to create a coherent and musical piece
- Use diatonic and chromatic sequences to expand on musical ideas or change key
- Create effective phrases, built with connected ideas and correct cadences
- Compose a fitting contrast section which is connected to the rest of the piece but also differs in specific ways
- Change key (modulate) smoothly and with control, to a wide range of keys
- Add performance directions which are musical and accurate
- Write idiomatically for a specific instrument, taking into account its particular features
The course includes:
- More than one hour of video demonstration and instruction
- PDF files with lesson notes, cadences revision sheets and composition practice exercises
- Personal help from your tutor via the discussion board or privately
- Demos of compositions from your teacher as well as student examples (which you may add to!)
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- 30-day no-quibble money-back guarantee
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