Music Theory I

Students will learn music theory and sight singing basics including scales, key signatures, chord structures, and basic rhythm work in this 5 day course.

Day 1

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  Music Notation
  
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  Notes and Rests – whole note/rest, half note/rest, quarter note/rest, eighth note/rest, sixteenth note/rest
  
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  The Staff – lines, spaces, clefs, pitches, accidentals
  
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  Intervals and the Major Scale – numeric value of intervals, whole steps, half steps, major scale(s)
  

Day 2

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  Review of previous day’s material
  
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  Solfeggio – symbols and oral practice
  
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  Major Scales and Keys – major scales, key signatures, circle of fifths
  
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  Intervals – interval quality (major, minor, diminished, augmented)
  
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  Dictation
  

Day 3

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  Review of previous day’s material
  
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  Rhythm – barlines, time signatures
  
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  Rhythm Drills
  
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  Aural Identification of Intervals and Scales
  
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  Sight Singing with Solfeggio
  

Day 4

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  Review of previous day’s material
  
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  Minor Scales
  
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  Triads
  
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  Rhythm Drills and Dictation
  
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  Singing with Solfeggio
  

Day 5

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  Full review
  
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  Greek and Church Modes
  
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  Singing with Solfeggio
  
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  Rhythm Drills
  
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  Dictation
  

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  Review major scales, key signatures, and the circle of fifths
  
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  Major Triads and dominant seventh chords
  
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  Chords related to key and chord progressions
  
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  Sight Singing using solfeggio (do, re, mi), numbers, and pitch names
  
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  Rhythm – simple duple, simple triple, and simple quadruple meters
  
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  Dictation
  

Day 2

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  Intervals, major, minor, augmented, and diminished
  
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  Minor scales – natural, harmonic, and melodic
  
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  Rhythm – review simple meters (drills)
  
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  Sight Singing – using solfeggio, numbers, and pitch names
  

Day 3

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  Minor chords
  
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  Chord inversions and voice leading
  
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  Cadences – perfect and plagal
  
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  Rhythm – compound duple, compound triple, and compound quadruple meters
  
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  Sight Singing – using solfeggio, numbers, and pitch names
  

Day 4

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  Finding the key of a melody
  
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  Harmonizing a melody
  
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  Rhythm – review compound meters (drills)
  
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  Sight Singing
  
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  Dictation
  

Day 5

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  Review course work
  
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  Transposition
  
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  Rhythm drills
  
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  Sight Singing
  
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  Dictation