- Major/minor scales two octaves
- Arpeggios and dominant sevenths
- Voicing control
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MPW Grade 6
Intermediate Musician I
Connect extended harmony, interpretation and improvisation to ensemble-aware playing.
- Denser textures
- Score annotations
- Lead-sheet and hymn score comparison
- Layered accompaniment rhythms
- Metric subdivision
- Ensemble pulse
- Intervals through an octave
- Bass-line hearing
- Eight-bar melodic dictation
- Seventh chords
- Modulation to related keys
- Phrase-level harmonic analysis
- Intermediate classical or pathway repertoire set
- Modulating introduction
- Verse-to-verse texture changes
- Responsive accompaniment
- Structured improvisation using motifs and chord tones
- Recorded performance with production and self-evaluation
Required evidence
Assignments
- Modulation map
- Interpretation journal
- Accompaniment simulation
Live teaching
Checkpoints
- Seventh-chord control
- Modulation
- Ensemble listening
- Motivic development
Ready to progress
Exit competencies
- Interprets an intermediate score
- Modulates deliberately
- Adapts accompaniment to another musician