Instructor Certification
Levels Four and Five

The instructor should be able to recognize and write these elements in music as well as the elements in Certification Levels One, Two and Three.

TONALITY

1. Scales and key signatures: all keys - Major and all three forms of minor
2. Circle of 5ths, Whole tone scale and triads
3. Intervals: Perfect, Major, minor, Augmented, diminished
4. Chords/triads:
          · All keys and qualities - roots and inversions
          · Identify by figured bass symbols
     Dominant 7 th :
          · All keys and inversions *Identify by figured bass symbols
     7 th chords:
· Major, dominant, minor, half-diminished, diminished
          · Diminished 7 th : all keys and qualities - roots and inversions
          · Chord progression: modulations and deceptive, secondary dominant
          · Use of figured bass symbols for all inversions

TIME AND RHYTHM

1. Write in counts for any time signature; including the use of syncopation.

SIGNS AND TERMS

Polyphonic and homophonic texture, augmentation, diminution, diatonic half-step, chromatic half-step, secondary dominant, whole tone scale, organ point/pedal point

mano destra, mano sinistra, hemiola, rubato, smorzando, sotto voce, toccata, and Dances of a Baroque Suite: allemande, courante/corrente, sarabande, gigue, giga, jig, bourree, gavotte, minuet, polonaise

HISTORY

Know at least three composers from each of the five periods of music history and characteristics of each period.