LCM MUSIC THEORY COURSE

Level: Step 1,2 and Grade 1

Teaching time:
8 hours (Four sessions 2 hours each)
LESSON OUTLINE:
Part I
First Session: Melody
Brief Introduction about Music Theory (Elements of Music)
Staf
Clefs
Notes, Rests
Accidentals (sharps, flats, natural signs)
Key Signatures/Scales: C,F,G, A minor (harmonic and melodic)
Practical test: Note reading/playing of scales
Second Session: Rhythm/Tempo
Brief review/answer the assigned worksheets
Note Values/Dotted Notes
Ties
Time Signatures: 4/4, , 2/4, 2/2, 3/2, 4/2 (Basic conducting)
Practical test: Aural test (time signature)/ pitch test (high or low)/rhythmic
patterns
Third Session: Dynamics/ Harmony
Brief review/answer the assigned worksheets
Tempo (ex. Adagio, andante, allegretto, allegro)
Dynamics (ex.piano, mezzo piano, mezzo forte, forte, crescendo, diminuendo

Other terms, musical signs and symbols

Tonic triads (1st,3rd,5th) and chords (1st, 3rd, 5th and octave) in the above keys
Chord Inversions
Practical test: music listening (tempo and dynamics)
Fourth Session: Keyboard
Part 2
Brief Review/answer the assigned worksheets
Classification/Kinds of Instruments-voices/how they are played
Kinds of Rhythm Styles
Simple Keyboard Functions
Accompanying and Chord Sequence Guidelines
General Exam Guidelines
Practical Test: piece analysis from the book

Needs:
Teacher:
Projector/Powerpoint
White board, markers, erasers
1 keyboard
Student:
Pencils
Rubber erasers
LCM books
Keyboard in part 2 of the session

Level: Grades 2-3

Teaching time:
8 hours (Four sessions 2 hours each)

LESSON OUTLINE:
Part I
First Session: Melody
Brief Introduction about Music Theory (Elements of Music)
Staf
Clefs
Notes, Rests
Accidentals (sharps, flats, natural signs)
Intervals -1st 5th and octave
Key Signatures/Scales: Major- Minor, up to 3 sharps and 3 flats,
Enharmonic equivalents: double sharps and flats
Practical test: playing of scales
Second Session: Rhythm
Brief review/answer the assigned worksheets
Note Values/Dotted Notes
Ties and slurs
Time Signatures: 4/4, , 2/4, 2/2, 3/2, 4/2, 3/8 (Basic conducting)
Practical test: Aural test (time signature)/ pitch test (bottom, middle,
top/root, 3rd, 5th)
Pitch test (intervals)

Third Session:Tempo/ Dynamics/ Harmony

Brief review/answer the assigned worksheets

Tempo (ex. Molto, piu, meno, poco, assai, non troppo, con brio, grave, presto)
Dynamics (ex. Accent, sforzando, fortepiano)
Other terms, musical signs and symbols
Primary and Secondary triads/chords
Practical test: playing of chords/music listening (tempo and dynamics)
Fourth Session: Keyboard
Part 2
Simple chord construction
Brief Review/answer the assigned worksheets
Classification/Kinds of Instruments-voices/how they are played
Kinds of Rhythm Styles
Simple Keyboard Functions
Accompanying and Chord Sequence Guidelines
General Exam Guidelines
Practical Test: piece analysis from the book
Needs:
Teacher:
Projector/Powerpoint
White board, markers, erasers
1 keyboard
Student:
Pencils
Rubber erasers

LEVEL: Grades 4-5

Teaching time:
8 hours (Four sessions 2 hours each)

LESSON OUTLINE:
Part I
First Session: Melody
Brief Introduction about Music Theory (Elements of Music)
Clefs (with alto and tenor clefs)
Intervals: minor and major 2nd, minor and major 7th, augmented and
diminished intervals, compound intervals, inversion of intervals
Key Signatures/Scales: Major- Minor, up to 7 sharps and 7 flats
Practical test: playing of intervals
Second Session: Rhythm
Brief review/answer the assigned worksheets
Note Values/Dotted Notes
Time Signatures: Basic conducting, 9/8 and 12/8, compound duple, triple and
quadruple time
Ornaments: appoggiatura, accaciatura, upper and lower mordents
Practical test: Aural test (conduct time signatures)/ pitch test
Third Session: Dynamics/ Harmony
Brief review/answer the assigned worksheets
Primary and Secondary Chords/Triads
Harmonisation of a melody (one chord per bar; melody using harmony notes
only)
Cadences: perfect, imperfect, plagal
Recognition of modulations: to dominant, subdominant and relative minor

Recognition of rhythmic and melodic sequence

Tempo (ex. Maestoso, mesto, dolce, agitato, scherzando, leggiero
Dynamics (ex. Accent, sforzando, fortepiano)
Other terms, musical signs and symbols
Fourth Session: Forms/ Keyboard
Canon, imitation, inversion, thematic repetition
Part 2
Brief Review/answer the assigned worksheets
Classification/Kinds of Instruments-voices/how they are played
Kinds of Rhythm Styles
Accompanying and Chord Sequence Guidelines
General Exam Guidelines
Practical Test: piece analysis from the book
Needs:
Teacher:
Projector/Powerpoint
White board, markers, erasers
1 keyboard
Student:
Pencils
Rubber erasers
LCM books
Keyboard in part 2 of the session

Level: Grades 6-7

Teaching time:
8 hours (Four sessions 2 hours each)

LESSON OUTLINE:
Part I
First Session: Melody
Brief Introduction about Music Theory (Elements of Music)
Intervals: minor and major 2nd, minor and major 7th, augmented and
diminished intervals, compound intervals, inversion of intervals
Key Signatures/Scales: Major- Minor, up to 7 sharps and 7 flats
Melodic decorations: notation of changing note patterns, trills and turns
Melodic decorations: accented passing notes, suspensions, notes of
anticipation, double appoggiaturas
Melodic and harmonic sequences
Practical test: analysis of sample pieces from books
Second Session: Rhythm/Harmony
Brief review/answer the assigned worksheets
Time Signatures: Basic conducting, 9/8 and 12/8, compound duple, triple and
quadruple time
Rhythm triplets and duplets
The Primary and Secondary Triads/chords
Chords in first and second inversion, the passing 6-4 and cadential 6-4
The dominant 7th, its inversions , resolutions and uses
The secondary 7th on the supertonic and subdominant, inversions and
resolutions and uses
Practical test: Play the constructed/written chords

Third Session: Dynamics/ Harmony

Brief review/answer the worksheets
Harmony: median, Neapolitan 6th, diminished 7th and dominant 9th chords,
secondary 7th chords on I and VI, their inversions , resolutions and uses
Modulation from a major key to the dominant or relative minor: pivot chords
and abrupt modulations
Modulations to the subdominant key and the relative minor of the
subdominant
Recognition of rhythmic and melodic sequence
Harmonisation of a melody using a chordal bass pattern
Musical Listening/analysis of sample pieces from books
Fourth Session: Forms/ Keyboard
Part 2
Brief Review/answer the assigned worksheets
Composition
Accompanying and Chord Sequence Guidelines
General Exam Guidelines
Practical Test: piece analysis from the book
Needs:
Teacher:
Projector/Powerpoint
White board, markers, erasers
1 keyboard
Student:
Pencils

Rubber erasers
LCM books
Keyboard in part 2 of the session