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Harmonic Dictation and Analysis – New questions
Counterpoint Writing – general knowledge on counterpoint rules, including identifying the intervals between parts, identifying intervals as perfect consonant/imperfect consonant/dissonant, and counterpoint writing error detection. And, manually assessed counterpoint writing questions for all 5 species forms!
Four-part writing – New questions on parallel unison, contrary 5ths/8ves and cross relations, plus questions dealing with the resolution of cadential 64s, Neapolitan 6ths and augmented 6th chords
Chords – new chord types including inversions of augmented, diminished and 7th chords
Chords – General knowledge on inversions, diatonic chords, figures and 'jazz' slash chords

Meter Transposition
Meter basics – Questions relating to understanding beat value, beats per bar, simple, compound, duple, triple and quadruple time
Ties – Rewriting excerpts with dotted values using ties

Pitch – basic questions on understanding pitch class and relationships between pitch letter names
Pitch and Clef basics – identifying different clefs, notes on the lines/spaces of the staff and accidentals
Note Writing – on the alto and tenor clefs
Intervals – identifying half steps and whole steps in a short excerpt
Interval writing – Whole and half steps
Intervals – general knowledge on simple vs. compound, interval qualities, consonant vs. dissonant intervals
Clef Transposition
Scale Degree Matching – matching the scale degree number to its technical name
Scale degree writing

Scale Writing – new questions including tetrachords, pentachords plus major and minor pentatonic scales
Key Signature writing – Alto and tenor clefs
Key signature basics – Parallel and relative keys
Modulation – Questions to help students understand pivot chords and chord function in related keys