Madrid PAU Music & Dance study plan

Identify and write out all fifteen key signatures (major and minor) from memory within five minutes

Label every interval from unison to compound octave by quality and number when given two notes on a staff

Spell and resolve the primary triads in all major keys and name their functions (tonic, subdominant, dominant)

Build a personal error log of notation mistakes made during drills

Analyse four-part chorale-style harmony by identifying cadence types (authentic, half, plagal, deceptive) in eight short excerpts

Figure a bass line with Roman numerals including inversions and seventh chords

Recognise and describe non-chord tones (passing, neighbour, suspension, appoggiatura) in a given passage

Transpose a short melody by a given interval while preserving accidentals

Map the stylistic markers of the Renaissance and Baroque onto specific notated features (imitation, basso continuo, terraced dynamics)

Compare phrase structure and texture between a Baroque dance suite movement and a Classical sonata-form exposition

Explain the function of the development section and identify its thematic material in a short score

Write a 150-word commentary linking a score excerpt to its period

Sequence the major style periods from Medieval to contemporary with three representative composers and genres each

Distinguish sonata form, rondo, theme and variations and through-composed forms by their structural markers

Describe the transition from modal to tonal harmony and its effect on form

Summarise the main features of Nationalism and Impressionism using concrete harmonic and orchestral evidence

Transcribe four-bar diatonic melodies by ear in major and minor keys with correct rhythm

Identify intervals, triads and seventh chords played in isolation with at least 80% accuracy

Notate the rhythm of a two-bar pattern containing syncopation and dotted values

Describe the form and instrumentation of a short unfamiliar excerpt after two listenings

Analyse recorded excerpts by identifying texture, dynamics, articulation and likely period from sound alone

Define and apply the core elements of movement analysis: alignment, weight, space, time and flow

Compare Laban effort qualities across two contrasting dance excerpts

Explain how musical metre and tempo shape phrasing in a dance sequence

Trace the development of ballet from court dance to Romantic and twentieth-century forms, naming key works and choreographers

Describe the characteristics of Spanish classical dance, flamenco and escuela bolera with concrete movement vocabulary

Explain the role of the corps de ballet, pas de deux structure and narrative conventions in a classical ballet

Compare two choreographic treatments of the same musical score

Situate Madrid's musical institutions and zarzuela tradition within Spanish music history

Connect the tonadilla, zarzuela and flamenco to their social and historical contexts

Complete a full timed mock exam under exam conditions

Review the error log and correct the three weakest recurring errors