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🎶AP Music Theory

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🎵Unit 1 – Pitch, Major Scales and Key Signatures, Rhythm, Meter, and Expressive Elements

🎶Unit 2 – Minor Scales and Key Signatures, Melody, Timbre, and Texture

🎻Unit 3 – Triads and Seventh Chords

🎹Unit 4 – Chord Function, Cadence, and Phrase

🎸Unit 5 – Chord Progressions and Predominant Function

🎺Unit 6 – Embellishments, Motives, and Melodic Devices

🎤Unit 7 – Secondary Function

🎷Unit 8 – Modes and Form

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📌 Exam Date: May 12, 2023

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Unit 1 Study Guides

Unit 1 Overview: Pitch, Major Scales and Key Signatures, Rhythm, Meter, and Expressive Elements

9 min read

1.1

Pitch and Pitch Notation

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written by Mickey Hansen

1.2

Rhythmic Values

7 min read

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written by Mickey Hansen

1.3

Half Steps and Whole Steps

6 min read

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written by Mickey Hansen

1.4

Major Scales and Scale Degrees

7 min read

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written by Mickey Hansen

1.5

Major Keys and Key Signatures

7 min read

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written by Mickey Hansen

1.6

Simple and Compound Beat Division

7 min read

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written by Mickey Hansen

1.7

Meter and Time Signature

8 min read

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written by Mickey Hansen

1.8

Rhythmic Patterns

7 min read

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written by Mickey Hansen

1.9

Tempo

6 min read

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written by Mickey Hansen

1.10

Dynamics and Articulation

7 min read

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written by Mickey Hansen

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2024 AP Music Theory Exam Guide

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Is AP Music Theory Hard? Is AP Music Theory Worth Taking?

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