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Instructor Certification Level One

The instructor should be able to recognize and write these elements in music.

TONALITY

  1. Staff notes
  2. Distinguish between whole steps and half steps
  3. Intervals
  4. Five-finger patterns: Major and minor
  5. Scales and key signatures: Major and minor (natural and harmonic)
  6. Chords/triads in Major and minor, blocked and broken in root position and inversions
  7. Primary triads: Identify by name and Roman numerals
  8. Cadences: half, authentic and plagal: root position
  9. Identify root of inverted Major and minor triads

TIME AND RH YTHM

1. Time signatures and pulses
2. Note and rest values
3. Rhythm to include up to sixteenth-note patterns
    Eighth note triplets, dotted notes

SIGNS AND TERMS

1. piano, pianissimo,pianississimo,        
    mezzo piano
2. forte, fortissimo, fortississimo, mezzo 
   forte
3. accent
4. slur
5. dot over or under a note
6. tied notes
7. repeat sign
8. fine, D.C. al fine,
9. fermata, tenuto
10. rit.,ritard., ritardando
11. a tempo
12. bar line, grand staff
13. measure, treble clef, bass clef 		14. repetition, sequence
15. allegro, andante,
16. moderato, vivace
17. sforzando
18. adagio, spiritoso,
19. accel.; accelerando
20. dolce, molto, poco
21. una corda, tre corda,
22. motif, motive
23. relative Major & minor

 

 

 

 

      

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