VCE Music Performance

Theory Requirements Unit 2

Keys & Key Signatures

Circle of 5ths:

Order of sharps:

F C G D A E B

Father Charles Goes Down And Ends Battle

Order of flats:

B E A D G C F

Battle Ends And Down Goes Charles Father

Scales and modes

Chords

Major - 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

Major 1 3 5

Natural Minor - b3 b6 b7

Minor b3

Harmonic Minor - b3 b6

Diminished b3 b5
Augmented #5

Melodic Minor - b3 b7 b6 b3

Suspended 4th 1 4 5

Major Pentatonic - 1 2 3 5 6 8

Dominant 7th b7

Minor Pentatonic - 1 b3 4 5 b7 8
Blues - 1 b3 4 #4 5 b7 8

Scale Degree Technical Names

Scale Degree Number

Technical Name

tonic

supertonic

mediant

subdominant

dominant

submediant

leading note

Intervals
Interval

Ascending

Descending

m2

Jaws

Fur Elise

M2

Frere Jacques

Mary had a Little Lamb

m3

Greensleeves

This Old Man

M3

Oh When the Saints

Beethoven's Fifth, Doorbell ding dong

P4

Here Comes the Bride

Oh Come All Ye Faithful

TT

The Simpsons

Ambulance siren

P5

Twinkle, Twinkle

Flintstones

m6

The Entertainer

All Things Bright and Beautiful

M6

Jingle Bells: Dashing Through the Snow

Six Little Ducks That I Once Knew

m7

Somewhere, West Side Story

Watermelon Man (H. Hancock)

M7

Maria, Just before 8ve. Dont mix with TT

Dissonant. Dont mix with TT

P8

Somewhere Over the Rainbow

My Sharona