To answer questions on time, keys, all kinds of intervals, clefs, transposition, ornaments and abbreviations.  To answer questions on the following musical terms and signs: a niente, appassionata, ben, brio, capriccioso, con moto, delicato, energico, Il, l'istesso tempo, ossia, prestissimo, presto, quasi, ritmico, semplice strepitoso, stringendo {string.}

composition of a melody to given words AND to write a melody above or below a given melody.  Performance directions relating to tempo dynamics and articulation will be required.  Modulation to related keys will be required.

To write or identify triads and their inversions built on all degrees of major or minor scales, in close position.  To write triads with one note on the bass stave and three notes on the treble stave or in four-part vocal harmony forming Perfect, Interrupted, Imperfect {4 kinds} and plagal cadences.  To write or identify root position chords written in close position, these will include major, minor diminished, augmented and Dominant Seventh chords.  To identify the following unessential notes in given passages: passing notes {accented and unaccented}, auxilliary notes {upper and lower}, appoggiaturas, suspensions, and anticipations.  To harmonise and analyse in four parts a simple melody using all triads in root position and 1st inversion {except V11 in major keys and 11, 111, 111b and V11 in minor keys} passing and cadential six-four chords and unaccented passing notes.

To indicate or define any of the following elements of musical form: division, movement theme or subject, exposition, development, recapitulation, bridge-passage or transition, link, binary, ternary, extended ternary, simple rondo, sonata or cyclic forms.  Questions on short extracts of music designed to test the candidate's knowledge of the elements and notation of music, including the realization of ornaments, the identification and notation of underlying harmonic structure, phrase structure, style and on the voices for which the works were written.