Syllabus (Print out for Notebook)
Prescribed Works:
Mozart Symphony no. 39 in E flat major, K.543
Haydn Concerto in E flat major for Trumpet and Orchestra, Hob. Vlle : 1
Beethoven Symphony no. 5 in C minor, Op. 67
Beethoven Trio for clarinet, piano and cello. Op. 11 (third movement only)
Core Works:
Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique, movements II, III and IV
Smetana Vltava (from Ma Vlast)
Debussy Clair de lune (from Suite bergamasque)
Your own choice of pieces – vocal and instrumental – from different
periods, that are each suggestive of some aspect(s) of ‘Night’
Assignments:
First nine weeks- Component 1- Listening Section A.
Presentations in pairs on a piece of your choosing, (each work must be presented).
Detailed Chord Analysis and textural analysis of the music.
Information on the work, composer, performance history, and period importance.
Preparation of Component 2 plan of action- What two elements will be chosen for Practical Musicianship and creation of a timeline of due dates.
Second nine weeks- Component 1- Listening Section B.
Presentations in pairs on a piece of your choosing, (each work must be presented).
Connections to Imagery of Night. Compare/Contrast with other music or art forms related to Night.
Information on the work, composer, performance history, and period importance.
Video Recordings due of performances for "Practical Musicianship"
Sunday, August 20, 2017
Class Schedule: 1st Nine Weeks
Due Dates
Listening Journal (Print out and include in Notebook)
Week I 8/21-25 Chapter 1 (Barron’s) Music Fundamentals
Aspects of Sound, Staff
and Clefs, Notation
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Pre-test participation
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Quiz #1- Level Ladder 1-2
o Quiz #1- Level Ladder 1-4
o Quiz #1- Level Ladder 1-4
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Homework-
§ Read Chapters 1-3
§ Read Chapters 1-3
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Music Theory.Net Note naming, Treble, Alto, Bass, Tenor Clef 30
questions- score
>85%
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Draw a Grand Staff, color code the notes on the staff to
correspond with
the notes on an instrument of your choosing. (Guitar/Woodwinds/Keyboard)
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Vocabulary list (Chapter 1)- due Wednesday 8/31
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Composition Assignment #1 (8 measures exercise 1)- due Wednesday 8/31
Notating Rhythm, Metric Organization, Rhythmic Guidelines
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Quiz #3-Level Ladder 3-6
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Quiz #4- Level Ladder 3-8
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Homework-
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Music Theory.Net Note naming, All Clefs 30 questions- score >90%
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Vocabulary with examples- due Wednesday 9/7
Week III 9/5-8 Test I Chapters 1-2
Sight Reading Test 1
Composition Assignment #2
Level Ladder Catch up to level 5
Review/Questions/Practice writing rhythm exercises for dictation
Week IV 9/11-15 Chapter 3&4 (Barron’s) Scales, Keys, and Modes and Aural Skills: Fundamentals and Singing
Scales, Church Modes
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Quiz #5- Level Ladder 5-10
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Quiz #6-Level Ladder 5-11
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Homework-
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Music Theory.Net Scale Ear Training, 20 questions- score > 80%
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Write out ear training exercises using different time signatures and
modes
§ Vocabulary-
due Monday 9/19
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Listening Journal- due Monday 9/19
Week V 9/18-22 Chapter 5 (Barron’s) Harmonic Organization I:
Intervals, Triads, Seventh Chords, Inversions
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Quiz # 7- Level Ladder 6-13
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Homework-
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Music Theory.Net Chords Ear Training, 30 questions- score > 80%
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Self Test 3-1/3-2/3-3
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Composition Assignment #3-due Tuesday 9/27
Week VI 9/25-29 Chapter 6-7 (Barron’s) Harmonic Organization II and III
Triads in Diatonic Context, Figured Bass, Chord Functions, Cadences
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Quiz #8- LEvel Ladder 8-18
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Homework-
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Music Theory.Net Intervals/Chords Ear Training, 40 questions- score >
85%
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Vocabulary- due Tuesday 10/4
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Listening Journal- due Tuesday 10/4
Week VII-VIII 10/3-13 Chapter 5-7 Review
Test 2- Chapters 1-7
Sight Reading Test 2
Dictation Test 2
Level Ladder Catch up to level 20
Composition Assignment #4 due- 10/4
Week IX-XI 10/16-26 Chapter 8- (Barron's) Harmonic Composition Part I: Fundamentals
o Listening Journal Presentations (TEST GRADE)
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Homework-
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Music Theory.Net Intervals/Chords Ear Training, 20 questions- score >
85%
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Vocabulary due Tuesday 10/25
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Listening Journal due Friday 10/21
Expanded Course Objectives and Student Expectations
Expanded Course Objectives
1. Identify and notate pitch in four clefs: treble, bass, alto, and tenor.
2. Notate, hear, and identify simple and compound meters.
3. Notate and identify all major and minor key signatures.
4. Notate, hear, and identify the following scales: chromatic, major, and the three minor forms.
5. Name and recognize scale degree terms, for example: tonic, supertonic, mediant, subdominant, dominant, submediant, subtonic, leading tone.
6. Notate, hear, and transpose the following modes: Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, and Mixolydian.
7. Notate, hear, and identify whole-tone and pentatonic scales.
8. Notate, hear, and identify all major, minor, diminished, and augmented intervals inclusive of an octave.
9. Transpose a melodic line to or from concert pitch for any common band or orchestral instrument.
10. Notate, hear, and identify triads, including inversions.
11. Notate, hear, and identify authentic, plagal, half, and deceptive cadences in major and minor keys.
12. Detect pitch and rhythm errors in written music from given aural excerpts.
13. Notate a melody from dictation, 6 to 12 bars, in a major key, mostly diatonic pitches, simple or compound time, three to four repetitions.
14. Notate melody from dictation, 6 to 12 bars, in a minor key, chromatic alteration from harmonic/melodic scales, simple or compound time, three to four repetitions.
15. Sight-sing a melody, 4 to 8 bars long, major or minor key, duple or triple meter, simple or compound time, using solfege, numbers, or any comfortable vocal syllable(s).
16. Notate and analyze simple 2-bar counterpoint in sixteenth- and/or eighteenth-century styles.
17. Realize a figured bass according to the rules of eighteenth-century chorale style, major or minor key, using any or all of the following devices: diatonic triads, seventh chords, inversions, nonharmonic tones, and secondary-dominant and dominant seventh chords.
18. Analyze a four-part chorale style piece using Roman and Arabic numerals to represent chords and their inversions.
19. Notate, hear, and identify the following nonharmonic tones: passing tone (accented and unaccented), neighboring tone, anticipation, suspension, retardation, appoggiatura, escape tone, changing tone (cambiata), pedal tone.
20. Notate the soprano and bass pitches and the Roman and Arabic numeral analysis of a harmonic dictation, eighteenth-century chorale style, seventh chords, secondary dominants, 4 to 8 bars in length, major or minor key, three to four repetitions.
21. Compose a melody or expand a motive with or without text, 6 to 12 bars long, given specific directions about key, mode, phrasing, rhythm, and harmonic language. Harmonize a 4- to 12-bar melody by writing a bass line, chords and/or chord symbols, given specific directions about key, mode, phrasing, rhythmic and harmonic language.
22. Define and identify common tempo and expression markings.
23. Identify aurally and/or visually the following: modulation, transposition, melodic and harmonic rhythm, sequence, imitation, ostinato, augmentation, diminution, inversion, retrograde, and fragmentation.
24. Recognize standard musical algorithms, i.e., standard melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic idioms that occur in music.
Student Expectations
1. Students will participate in all classroom discussions and activities.
2. Students will complete all assigned exercises and readings.
3. Students will keep and maintain a Music Theory notebook, which will include class notes, handouts, and assignments.
4. Students will study the released AP Exams and take practice tests to prepare for the exam.
5. Students will listen to approximately two hours of music each week outside of class (2 pieces a day) and maintain a music listening log, which will consist of written analysis/evaluations of each listening selection. These written logs should include observations and evaluations regarding the following items:
a. melodic characteristics (conjunct/disjunct)
b. harmonic characteristics (harmonic idioms present)
c. rhythm (straight/syncopated)
d. texture (homophonic, monophonic, polyphonic, heterophonic)
e. timbre (instrumentation, tone color)
f. dynamics (dynamic contrasts)
g. tempo (tempo changes)
h. meter (duple/triple, simple/compound, regular/irregular)
i. mode (major, minor, modal, atonal)
j. form (binary, ternary, sonata, rondo, etc.)
k. articulation (legato, staccato, etc.)
6. Students will submit one major composition each semester, based on assigned form and content. Other minor compositions will be required to demonstrate understanding and synthesis of concepts presented. These compositions will include:
a. A song in binary form
b. A song in ternary form
c. A song in sonata form
d. A song based on a major mode
e. A song based on a minor mode
Music Theory Level Ladder
Level 1- Treble clef note names, note values, time signature
Level 2- Bass clef note names, values, dotted notes, symbols
Level 3- Dynamics and symbols, tempo symbols and markings
Level 4- Ledger lines, texture, basic counting in common time
Level 5- Accidentals, articulation terms, music mapping
Level 6- Intervals, the distance between two notes
Level 7- Endings in order of performance, rhythms/counting
Level 8- Enharmonic equivalents
Level 9- Order of sharts and flats and meaning, cut time
Level 10- Naming flat keys written on staff
Level 11- Naming sharp keys written on staff, key "ingredients"
Level 12- Drawing and identifying Major Scales
Level 13- Drawing and identifying Major and Perfect Intervals
Level 14- Spelling major triads given root (bottom note)
Level 15- Identifying relative minor keys, minor key "ingredients"
Level 16- Drawing and identifying minor intervals+ definitions
Level 17- Drawing and identifying minor triads + definitions
Level 18- Augmented and diminished intervals
Level 19- Triad and Chord inversions
Level 20- Augmented and diminished chords
Level 2- Bass clef note names, values, dotted notes, symbols
Level 3- Dynamics and symbols, tempo symbols and markings
Level 4- Ledger lines, texture, basic counting in common time
Level 5- Accidentals, articulation terms, music mapping
Level 6- Intervals, the distance between two notes
Level 7- Endings in order of performance, rhythms/counting
Level 8- Enharmonic equivalents
Level 9- Order of sharts and flats and meaning, cut time
Level 10- Naming flat keys written on staff
Level 11- Naming sharp keys written on staff, key "ingredients"
Level 12- Drawing and identifying Major Scales
Level 13- Drawing and identifying Major and Perfect Intervals
Level 14- Spelling major triads given root (bottom note)
Level 15- Identifying relative minor keys, minor key "ingredients"
Level 16- Drawing and identifying minor intervals+ definitions
Level 17- Drawing and identifying minor triads + definitions
Level 18- Augmented and diminished intervals
Level 19- Triad and Chord inversions
Level 20- Augmented and diminished chords
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