Ap music Theory
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Course Overview: AP Music Theory is a rigorous course for students who wish to develop their musical skills in composition and theory. Students who plan to pursue a career in music performance, composition or music education will benefit greatly from the skills learned in this course. The course is not limited to these students, however, and any student who wishes to better understand the language of music for their own personal enrichment will find the course very beneficial. AP Music Theory is, therefore, open to all students without pre-requisite requirements though a basic background in reading music through participation in piano, orchestra, choir or band is recommended. Course Description: Introduction to diatonic harmony including the elements of pitch and rhythm, major and minor scales, major and minor key signatures, functional harmony of all diatonic chords in major and minor keys, voice leading and root position part writing, diatonic harmonic progression including inverted triads, cadences, phrases, periods, non-chord tones, and diatonic seventh chords. Development of aural skills including diatonic sight-singing, dictation, computer assisted instruction in major and minor keys and in simple meters. Course Objectives: Students will be able to – *define basic musical terms and theoretical concepts *understand and construct major, minor, chromatic, whole tone and modal scales *demonstrate the ability to construct and analyze major, minor, augmented and diminished intervals and triads *recognize, audiate, and sing or play scales, intervals, triads, rhythms and melodies *sing simple conjunct and disjunct diatonic melodies on sight *construct compositions in four-part texture *analyze harmonic structure utilizing Roman numerals and figured bass *identify basic form and cadences Primary Texts: Ottman, Robert. Music for Sight Singing, 7th ed. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2004. Kostka, Stefan and Dorothy Payne. Tonal Harmony, 6th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2003. Other resources: Ricci Adams’ Music Theory Web site: www.musictheory.net Usama Minegishi & Hidetomo Katsura’s Phobia Bundle: www.majorthird.com Teoria.com music theory and ear training website and software. Alfred’s Essentials of Music Theory Software Course Planner Week 1-3 Introduction to the elements of music writing Review of basic pitch and rhythmic notation including the staff, clefs, ledger lines, grand staff, half steps and whole steps, intervals, chromatic alterations, enharmonic equivalents, accidentals, beat, tempo, meter and measure, time signatures, simple and compound meters, syncopation, dots, ties, rests, dynamic and articulation markings Text: Alfred’s Essentials of Music Theory Vol. 1 Aural Skills Introduction to solfege, melodic dictation of 3-5 note patterns, simple rhythmic dictation without rests Text: Music for Sight Singing Chapter 1 Week 4-6 Written Skills Notation, key signatures, time signatures, scales and modes Text: Tonal Harmony Chapters 1 & 2
Scale line melodies, intervals from the tonic triad in major keys Text: Music for Sight Singing Chapters 2 & 3
Review Tonal Harmony Chapters 1-2 and Music for Sight Singing Chapters 1-3. Also review all notes, discussions and exercises on dictation from weeks 1-3.
Intervals including inversions, continue to drill scales and key signatures Text: review Tonal Harmony Chapters 1 & 2
Intervals from the tonic triad in major keys Text: Music for Sight Singing Chapter 4
Triads and seventh chords Text: Tonal Harmony Chapters 3&4
Minor keys-intervals from the tonic triad Text: Music for Sight Singing Chapter 5 Introduce ear training exercises from Practica Musica and daily class participation on exercises from Chord Phobia bundle
Triad and chord identification, introduction to part writing and harmonic progression Text: Tonal Harmony Chapters 5-6
Intervals from the dominant triad in major and minor keys Text: Music for Sight Singing Chapter 6
Review Tonal Harmony Chapters 1-6 and Music for Sight Singing Chapters 4-6 Week 13 Written Skills Review triads, chord identification, part writing and harmonic progression Text: Tonal Harmony Chapters 5-6
Review intervals from the dominant triad in major and minor keys Text: Music for Sight Singing Chapter 6
Writing short progressions with given soprano or bass using primary triads in root position and good melody writing Text: Tonal Harmony Chapters 6-7 Aural Skills More extensive use of diatonic intervals Text: Music for Sight Singing Chapter 8 Continue on ear training exercises from Practica Musica and daily class participation on exercises from Chord Phobia bundle
Extended progressions adding some first inversion triads. Text: Tonal Harmony Chapter 8
Intervals from the dominant seventh chord Text: Music for Sight Singing Chapter 9 Continue ear training exercises from Practica Musica and daily class participation on exercises from Chord Phobia bundle
Review Tonal Harmony Chapters 5-8 and Music for Sight Singing Chapters 6-9 Week 19-20 Written Skills Introduce second inversion triads Text: Tonal Harmony Chapter 9
Rhythmic dictation practice Text: Music for Sight Singing Chapter 10 Continue class participation on exercises from Chord Phobia bundle Week 21-23 Written Skills Introduce V7 and inversions Text: Tonal Harmony Chapter 13
Melody: Intervals from the tonic and dominant triads Text: Music for Sight Singing Chapter 11
Review chapters 9, 10, & 13 Text: Tonal Harmony Chapters 9, 10, & 13
Further use of diatonic intervals Text: Music for Sight Singing Chapter 12
Review Tonal Harmony Chapters 9, 10, & 13 and Music for Sight Singing Chapters 10- 12.
Introduce secondary triads and their inversions Text: Tonal Harmony Chapter 7
Eight measure phrases from choral literature Students compose 8 measure phrases for future use
Introduce non-chord tones Text: Tonal Harmony Chapters 11-12
Eight measure phrases from choral literature and teacher composed 8 measure phrases Week 28-29 Written Skills Review all triads and non-chord tones in given melodies, given bass lines with figured bass, fragments of soprano and bass mixed, drill part-writing skills Text: review Tonal Harmony Chapters 7-13 Aural Skills Eight measure phrases from choral literature and teacher composed 8 measure phrases Week 30 Written Skills Administration of the first AP practice exam ***Six-Weeks Exam*** Completion and review of the AP practice exam’s results will count as the six weeks exam grade
Introduce secondary functions and phrase structure Modulation to closely related keys Text: Tonal Harmony Chapters 16 & 19 Aural Skills Begin individual student recordings of sight singing exercises for evaluation Week 33 Written Skills Small forms-binary, ternary, rounded binary, theme and variations Text: Tonal Harmony Chapter 20 Administration of second AP practice exam Week 34 Written Skills Introduction to twentieth-century scales, chordal structures, and compositional procedures Text: Tonal Harmony Chapter 28 Student Compositions: Students will compose an original 32 measure piece for an instrumentation determined by the members of the class and what instrument/voice they perform on. Directory: uploads uploads -> 587 Return function, r i(X) r i(0) r i(1) r i(2) r i(3) 1 0 2 4 6 Thermal Station, I 2 0 1 5 6 3 0 3 5 6 10 uploads -> Department of science and humanities department of mathematics part-a questions and answers uploads -> The Case Against the nypd’s Quota-Driven ‘Broken Windows’ Policing What Is It? uploads -> For want of a nail uploads -> Ownership Models There are two different types of ownership models uploads -> Police Militarization uploads -> City of rising star regular meting thursday, july 14, 2016 uploads -> Township of winfield uploads -> Stop Militarizing Law Enforcement Act of 2014 uploads -> The Black Panther Party’s Ten-Point Program What We Want Now! Download 49.91 Kb. Share with your friends:
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