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__**BAROQUE - Grade 10**__


 * 1) Brass, strings and woodwind instruments
 * 2) Texture (i.e. polyphony, counterpoint)
 * 3) Keyboard instruments
 * 4) Figured Bass and continuo
 * 5) The development of major and minor tonality and equal temperament
 * 6) Ornamentation, melismas, dynamics, articulations, melodic and rhythmic styles
 * 7) Baroque Opera
 * 8) Cantata
 * 9) Fugue
 * 10) Oratorio
 * 11) Baroque Concerto


 * __CLASSICAL - Grade 11__**


 * 1) Orchestral instruments and the effects of the Industrial Revolution
 * 2) Symphony
 * 3) Melody/harmony/rhythm/texture/dynamics
 * 4) String Quartet and chamber music
 * 5) Classical Opera
 * 6) Sonata Allegro Form
 * 7) Classical Concerto
 * 8) Classical Sonata
 * 9) Mass
 * 10) Classical Oratorio

__**ROMANTIC TO THE PRESENT DAY - Grade 12**__


 * 1) Romantic Symphony, Program Music and Tone Poems
 * 2) Impressionism and Post Impressionism
 * 3) Blues and early Jazz
 * 4) Later to modern day jazz
 * 5) Musical Theatre
 * 6) Dodecaphony (Serial Technique) and Atonality
 * 7) 20th and 21st century development of rhythm
 * 8) New Age and computer music
 * 9) Romantic Lied and the Song Cycle
 * 10) Piano Music