Concepts of Piano Theory - Level 4

Promotes the intermediate Student to a higher level of music appreciation. Tetrachord Patterns, the Circle of Fifths, Common Tones, Cadences with Inversions, Names of Scale Degrees, Dominant Seventh Chords, Figured Bass Symbols, and Modes are introduced. Includes reviews, compositional analysis incorporating everything taught, and a test at the end of the book.

Important concepts include:

• Sharp and Flat Order
• Tetrachord patterns
• Circle of Fifths
• Names of Scale Degrees
• Cadences in inversions
• Common tones
• Relative major and minoe key signatures
• Three forms of the minor scales
• Lists of important keyboard composers from the four primary periods
• Seventh Chords
• Basic Figured Bass symbols
• Complete intervals
• More Terminology and symbols
• Binary and Ternary form
• Form and Analysis
• Modes