RCM Intermediate Rudiments Requirements – Exam & Answers
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RCM Intermediate Rudiments Requirements – Exam Preparation
- RCM Intermediate Rudiments Requirements – Pitch
Double sharps and double flats
- RCM Intermediate Rudiments Requirements – Rhythm
Note and rest time values (breve, whole, half, quarter, eighth, sixteenth and thirty-second) Double dotted notes
Time Signatures in Simple Time and in Compound Time
Irregular groups in Simple Time (quintuplets and septuplets)
Irregular groups in Compound Time (duplets and quadruplets)
- RCM Intermediate Rudiments Requirements – Scales
Scales in Major & minor keys, including seven sharps & seven flats
Write or identify: Major and minor (natural, harmonic and melodic) scales, ascending and descending
Write or identify: Related keys: relative Major and minor, tonic (parallel) Major and minor; enharmonic Major and minor
Write or identify: Technical degree names of the scale degrees
Write or identify: Whole-tone scales and chromatic scales (using any standard version)
Identify: blues scales, Major pentatonic scales, minor pentatonic scales and octatonic scales
- RCM Intermediate Rudiments Requirements – Triads
Triads in all Major and harmonic minor keys
Write: Solid (blocked) in Root Position and inversions (close position only)
Identify: Solid (blocked) or broken in Root Position and inversions (close position or open position)
Intermediate Rudiments Requirements – Intervals
Intervals – Perfect, Major and minor
Write or identify: above or below a given note, all intervals and their inversions up to and including an octave, melodic or harmonic form (with or without a Key Signature)
- RCM Intermediate Rudiments Requirements – Recognition of Keys
Recognition of Key Signatures up to and including seven sharps and seven flats
Identify the key (Major or minor) of a given melody with a Key Signature
Rewrite the excerpt using the correct Key Signature and identify the key (Major or minor)
- RCM Intermediate Rudiments Requirements – Transposition
Transposition (Major Keys up to and including seven sharps and seven flats)
Transpose a melody up or down any interval within the octave
- RCM Intermediate Rudiments Requirements – Cadences
Cadences in all Major and harmonic minor keys
Identify cadences in keyboard style only in a musical excerpt
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 Intermediate Rudiments Requirements – Musical Terms and Signs
Recognize, define or supply the musical terms or signs as listed in the Ultimate Music Theory Intermediate Rudiments Workbook
- RCM Intermediate Rudiments Requirements – Analysis
Analyze a short musical composition, identifying any of the above theory requirements
- RCM Intermediate 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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