By Margaret Brandman.

The Contemporary Piano Method is recommended reference material for the AMEB's Contemporary Popular Syllabus

STAGE 5:
Music Resources in the Twentieth Century
- (1) Noise (2) Effects
- Root Progressions Steps 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8.
- Music Resources (3) Melody (4) Harmony.
- Extended Chords (d) Added Notes.
- Figured Bass Exercises continued.
- Polyphonic Writing (c) Three-Part Invention.

STAGE 6:
Whole Tone Scale
- Chromatic Progressions
- Polyphonic Writing (d) Fugue (including Prelude and Fugue).
- The Diminished Scale.
- Figured Bass Exercises continued.

STAGE 7:
Altered Noted in the Extended Chords
- Serial Music.
- Voicing Chords in Fourths.
- Commonly used Jazz Scales.
- Polytonality and Polychords.
- Scales outside the European Classical Tradition.