Trinity Grade 3 Music Theory

Welcome to the Trinity Grade 3 Music Theory start page!

On this page you can find the syllabus information, and links to the free and paid Trinity Grade 3 Music Theory lessons available on this site.

You will find a large number of free lessons on this website, or get the full Trinity Grade 3 Music Theory course in your preferred format:

Trinity Grade 3 Free Music Theory Lessons

• Triplets
• Major Scales: D and B Flat
• Melodic Minor Scales
• Minor Scales: Gm and Bm
• Key Signatures and Key (Grade 3)
• Chords and Cadences (Trinity Grade 3)
• Chord Progressions
• Compound Time Signatures
• Rests (Grade 3)
• Spotting Errors
• Composition (Trinity Grade 3)
• Musical Terms Grade 3 (Trinity)

Trinity Grade 3 Syllabus

Rhythm

• Compound time (time signatures of 6/8, 9/8 and 12/8 )
• Grouping semiquavers and semiquaver rests in simple and compound time (16th notes and rests)
• Dotted quavers and dotted quaver rests in simple and compound time (dotted 8th notes)
• Rules for grouping note and rest values within 6/8, 9/8 and 12/8 time signatures
• Quaver triplets (8th note triplets)
• Anacrusis
• Ties using new note values

Pitch

• Naming and using notes in treble or bass clefs (to three ledger lines above or below the stave)
• Bb and D major keys (for all major keys for the grade: scales, key signatures, one-octave arpeggios, broken chords and tonic triads (root or first inversion)
• G and B minor keys (for all minor keys for the grade: scales — natural (Aeolian mode) and harmonic and melodic, key signatures, one-octave arpeggios, broken chords and tonic triads (root or first inversion)
• Second inversions of major and minor tonic triads of keys covered so far
• Identifying the key of a piece in Bb or D major and G or B minor
• 5th degree of the major/minor scale being known as the dominant or soh (major keys only)
• Dominant triads for all keys covered so far
• Major/minor dominant triad labelled:
  — as a chord symbol above the music (e.g. G in the key of C major or Em (E where the 7th
  degree is raised) in the key of A minor)
  — as a Roman numeral below the music (e.g. V in the key of C major or v (V where the 7th degree
  is raised) in the key of A minor)
• 7th degree of the major/minor scale being known as the leading note
• Understanding the term ‘chord progression’
• Recognising a perfect cadence in the home key (major or minor)
• Intervals (major/minor 6th, major/minor 7th above any tonic for the grade)
• Writing tonic chords in root position in any key for the grade as well-balanced 4-part chords for SATB
• Real and tonal sequences
• Similar and contrary motion
• Transposing a tune up or down an octave from treble clef to bass clef and vice versa
• Ranges of violin, flute, cello, bassoon, as defined in the workbook
• Knowing that violin and cello are string instruments, flute and bassoon are woodwind instruments
  
• Musical terms and symbols

Download the complete Trinity Music Theory Syllabus here.