RCM Advanced Rudiments Requirements – Exam & Answers
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RCM Advanced Rudiments Requirements – Exam Preparation
- RCM Advanced Rudiments Requirements – Clefs
Clefs – Alto Clef and Tenor Clef (C Clefs)
- RCM Advanced Rudiments Requirements – Rhythm
Time Signatures for Simple Time, Compound Time and Hybrid meters
- RCM Advanced Rudiments Requirements – Scales
Scales in Major and minor keys up to & including seven sharps & seven flats
Write or identify: Major and minor (natural, harmonic and melodic) scales, ascending and descending, beginning on any scale degree
Write or identify: Modes (Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian and Aeolian), beginning on any note
- RCM Advanced Rudiments Requirements – Chords
Write or identify: all triads (Major, minor, Augmented and diminished) in Root Position and inversions (close position or open position)
Write or identify: Dominant 7th chords in Major and minor keys in Root Position and inversions (close position or open position)
Write or identify: diminished 7th chords of harmonic minor scales, Root Position only
Identify: the scale (Major, natural minor or harmonic minor) in which a group of triads or chords may be found
- RCM Advanced Rudiments Requirements – Intervals
Intervals – Perfect, Major and minor
Write or identify: above or below a given note, all intervals and their inversions, melodic or harmonic form (with or without a Key Signature), including simple intervals, compound intervals and enharmonic equivalents
- RCM Advanced Rudiments Requirements – Transposition
Transposition (Major and minor Keys up to and including seven sharps and seven flats)
Transpose a melody up or down any interval within the octave
Rewrite a melody at the same pitch in an alternate clef (including C Clefs)
Transpose to concert pitch a single line of music for the following orchestral instruments: Clarinet in B flat, Trumpet in B flat, French Horn in F or English Horn in F
- RCM Advanced Rudiments Requirements – Cadences
Cadences in all Major and harmonic minor keys
Identify the following cadences: Perfect (Authentic): V – I or V – I (Major) and V – i or V – i (minor); Plagal: IV – I (Major) and iv – i (minor); Imperfect (Half Cadence): I – V or IV – V (Major) and i – V or iv – V (minor)
Write the following cadences in keyboard style at the end of a melodic fragment: Perfect (Authentic): V – I (Major) and V – i (minor); Plagal: IV – I (Major) and iv – i (minor); Imperfect (Half Cadence): I – V or IV – V (Major) and i – V or iv – V (minor)
- RCM Advanced Rudiments Requirements – Scores
Scores – Rewrite a given passage into modern vocal score, string quartet score or short score (on 2 staves)
- RCM Advanced Rudiments Requirements – Musical Terms and Signs
Recognize, define or supply the musical terms or signs as listed in the Ultimate Music Theory Advanced Rudiments Workbook
- RCM Advanced Rudiments Requirements – Analysis
Analyze a short musical composition, identifying any of the above theory requirements
- RCM Advanced Rudiments Requirements – Score
Score: 60 – 69 Pass; 70 – 79 Honors; 80 – 89 First Class Honors; 90 – 100 First Class Honors with Distinction
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