Grade 9

Fundamentals of Music

• Beat and Rhythm

• Staff

• Letter Names

• Sol-fa

Ancient Greece

• Characteristics of the Era

• Monophonic Texture

• Modes

Medieval

• Characteristics of the Era

• Gregorian Chant

• Polyphonic Texture (Organum)

• Ionian

Renaissance

• Characteristics of the Era

• Madrigal

• Word Painting

• Development of the Polyphonic Texture

• Aeolian

Baroque

• Characteristics of the Era

• Modality to Major and minor Tonality

• Key Figures

• Orchestra

Classical

• Characteristics of the Era

• Homophonic Texture

• Key Figures

Romantic 

• Characteristics of the Era

• Key Figures

Music Skills

• Rhythm skill development

• Aural skills

• In-tune singing

• Triad playing

• Harmonic Functions

• Triadic Inversions

• Analysis

• Composition