Music Theory Classes

Columbus Music and Art Academy offers three levels of music theory and ear training classes for children. The beginning level covers the basics of music theory, ear training, and music history. Students learn musical elements, notation, and terminology. The intermediate and advanced levels of the music theory cover concepts and skills in music theory and ear training towards successfully preparing students for collegiate musical study and The Royal Conservatory of Music theory examinations.

The intermediate course directs students toward this goal through in-class sightsinging with solfege syllables; melodic and rhythmic dictation; aural recognition drills involving chromatic, major, minor, pentatonic, blues, whole-tone, and octatonic scales; closed-position triads; intervals; written notational exercises, and music terminological study.

The advanced course expands upon this curriculum through concepts such as compound intervals, hybrid meters, open-position triads, and triadic inversions. The advanced course will also involve basic formal and melodic analysis, and introduce new concepts, including seventh chords of the dominant, diminished, half-diminished, major-major, and minor-minor types; alto and tenor clefs; the four cadence types, and modes.