Kinlochleven High School Music Department

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Intermediate 1 Literacy Content

Melodic Harmonic Rhythmic Timbre
  • Treble Clef Stave: C – A'
  • Notation of Repetitions and Sequences
 
  • Semibreve, Dotted Minim, Minim, Crotchet, Paired Quavers
  • Barlines
  • Double Barlines
  • Repeat Signs
  • 2/4, 3/4, 4/4
  • Accelerando, Rallentando
  • Allegro, Andante, Adagio
  • f Forte p Piano
  • Crescendo, Diminuendo

You should normally already have covered all of these Int 1 Literacy concepts during our S1–2 course.

The LTS Int 1 Literacy Workbook is downloadable in PDF format (467KB file) from http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/Images/musicliteracyint1_tcm4-221269.pdf.

Intermediate 2 Literacy Content

Melodic Harmonic Rhythmic Timbre
  • Tones, Semitones, Accidentals
  • Scales and Key Signatures: C, G and F Major, A Minor
  • Chords of C, G and F Major, and A Minor
  • Dotted Crotchet + Single Quaver
  • Grouped Semiquavers
  • Dotted Quaver + Semiquaver
  • Scotch Snap
  • 1st and 2nd Time Bars
  • ff pp

The LTS Int 2 Literacy Workbook is downloadable in PDF format (670KB file) from http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/Images/musicliteracyint2_tcm4-221270.pdf.

(Beware of the overlong semiquaver flags in the Scotch Snaps in Exercises 1 (c) and (d) because they're not very clear!)

Higher Literacy Content

Melodic Harmonic Rhythmic Timbre
  • Bass Clef: E,, – C
  • Note-naming and Transposing into bass clef
  • Chords: I, IV, V & VI in Major and Minor Keys
  • Naming and writing diatonic intervals formed from the tonic
  • 6/8 Time with straightforward note groupings, excluding dotted quavers
  • Triplets
  • Rests: Quaver – Semibreve
  • Da capo, Dal segno, Fine
  • Slurs
  • Accents
  • Staccato marks
  • Phrase marks
  • sfz

The LTS Higher Literacy Workbook is downloadable in PDF format (609KB file) from http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/Images/musicliteracyhigher_tcm4-221271.pdf.

Advanced Higher Literacy Content

Melodic Harmonic Rhythmic Timbre
 
  • Putting chords to cadence points and melodies
  • Diminished 7th
  • Dominant 7th
  • Added 6ths
  • Inversions
  • Ties
  • Notation of syncopated rhythms
  • 5/4 Time Signature
 

The LTS Advanced Higher Literacy Workbook is downloadable in PDF format (924KB file) from http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/Images/musicliteracyadvh_tcm4-221272.pdf.

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