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MPW Grade 6

Intermediate Musician I

Connect extended harmony, interpretation and improvisation to ensemble-aware playing.

Technique
  • Major/minor scales two octaves
  • Arpeggios and dominant sevenths
  • Voicing control
Reading
  • Denser textures
  • Score annotations
  • Lead-sheet and hymn score comparison
Rhythm
  • Layered accompaniment rhythms
  • Metric subdivision
  • Ensemble pulse
Aural
  • Intervals through an octave
  • Bass-line hearing
  • Eight-bar melodic dictation
Theory
  • Seventh chords
  • Modulation to related keys
  • Phrase-level harmonic analysis
Repertoire
  • Intermediate classical or pathway repertoire set
Hymns
  • Modulating introduction
  • Verse-to-verse texture changes
  • Responsive accompaniment
Improvisation
  • Structured improvisation using motifs and chord tones
Performance
  • Recorded performance with production and self-evaluation

Required evidence

Assignments

  1. Modulation map
  2. Interpretation journal
  3. Accompaniment simulation

Live teaching

Checkpoints

  1. Seventh-chord control
  2. Modulation
  3. Ensemble listening
  4. Motivic development

Ready to progress

Exit competencies

  1. Interprets an intermediate score
  2. Modulates deliberately
  3. Adapts accompaniment to another musician
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