Music Theory I

MUSIC THEORY I

1ST PERIOD: ROOm 1325 (Band Room)

Instructor: J. Craig Cantrell Office Phone: 770-967-0080 ext. 748
Email: craig.cantrell@hallco.org Conferences/Tutorials: Before School / By appointment

OVERVIEW

Beginning Music Theory introduces fundamentals of organized sound, emphasizing rules of Western music composition and offering opportunities to create original works. Students will develop the ability to describe, understand, and recognize aspects of tonal music, and skills in sight-singing, dictation/aural, written aspects, composition, and analytical areas. Students will be exposed to a variety of exercises designed to develop these skills including listening, performance, writing, creating, and analyzing music. While the main emphasis is placed on music of the Common Practice Period (1600-1750), music of other stylistic periods may also be studied. Explores use of technology for composition.

OBJECTIVES

By the end of this course, students should have a mastery of the rudiments and terminology of music, including hearing and notating: pitches, intervals, scales and keys, chords, meter, rhythm. Also, the student should be competent in melodic and harmonic dictation, composing using specific part-writing rules, realizing a figured bass and Roman numeral progressions, analysis of repertoire, and sight-singing.

TEXTBOOK

Kostka, Stepfan, and Dorothy Payne. Tonal Harmony: With an Introduction to Twentieth-Century Music. 5th ed. New York: McGraw Hill, 2004

REQUIRED CLASS MATERIAL

All students are required to have the following materials daily:
*Pencils (all work & exams submitted to the instructor MUST be written in pencil unless your work is completed in a music notation program)
*Notebook Paper
*Standard 1" 3-ring Binder

Recommended Class Material

Clipboard
Manuscript Paper

CURRICULUM MAP - PACING GUIDE - COURSE CALENDAR

FIRST SEMESTER:
Week 1:           Syllabus, Course Requirements
Week 2:           Pitch; The Staff; The Musical Alphabet; Clefs, Treble/Bass Clef; Ledger Lines; Great Staff; 10 Question Quiz
Week 3:           The Keyboard; Names of White Keys; Intervals; The Octave; Half Steps and Whole Steps; 10 Questions Quiz
Week 4:           Accidentals; Names of Black Keys; Enharmonic Spellings; Playing, Ear Training, and Sight-singing; 10 Questions Quiz
Week 5:           The Construction of Notes; Beamed Notes; Note Values and Relations; Notation of Rests
Benchmark #1 (Unit Test: Ch.1-Ch.3)
Week 6:           Chromatic/Diatonic Half Steps; Whole Steps; Ear Training Test; 10 Question Quiz
Week 7:           Major Scales: Characteristics; C Major & Other Scales; Relationship of Major Scales; Sight-Singing Test; 10 Question Quiz
Week 8:           Major Scales Con’t; Spelling Scales; 10 Question Quiz; Ear Training & Sight-Singing Quiz
Week 9:           Names of the Scale Degrees; 10 Question Quiz
Benchmark #2 (Unit Test: Ch.4-Ch.5)
Week 10:         Review: Notes, Rests, Values, and Relationships; Introduce Beats, Tempo, Grouping of Beats, Bar Lines and Measures; 10 Questions Quiz
Week 11:         Divisions of Beats, Simple Beat, Compound Beat, Bar Lines and Measures
10 Question Quiz
Week 12:         Notation of Simple/Compound Beat; Meter (Time) Signatures; Simple/Compound Meter Signatures; 10 Question Quiz
Week 13:         Conductor’s Beats; Rhythm, Anacrusis; Rhythmic Reading; 10 Question Quiz
Week 14:         Part writing in second position; Composing using triads
Benchmark #3 (Unit 3 Test: Ch.7-9; Ch.12-13)
Week 15:         Playing Scales at the Keyboard; Singing Major Scales; Scales Quiz – Writing 12 Major Scales; Ear Training / Sight-Singing Quiz
Week 16:         Key; Key Signature; Key Signature on the Staff ; Ear Training / Sight-Singing Quiz; 10 Question Quiz
Week 17:         Circle of Fifths; Fine Arts Performance Essay
Benchmark #4 (Unit 4 Test: Ch. 10 – Ch.11)
Week 18:         Review for Mid-Term Exam; Review Ear Training & Sight-singing procedures.
Benchmark #5 (Mid-Term Exam)

SECOND SEMESTER:
Week 19:         Accidentals (Con’t); Double Flat/Sharp; Natural Sign; Minor Scale Forms (Natural, Harmonic, and Melodic); Use of Minor Scales; 10 Question Quiz
Week 20:         Review Minor Scale Forms; Names of Scale Degrees in Minor; Playing Minor Scales at the Keyboard; Singing Minor Scales. Writing 12 Minor Scales (all 3 forms); 10 Question Quiz
Week 21:         Derivation of Key Signatures in Minor; Minor Key Signatures on the Staff; Circle of Fifths for Minor Keys; Ear Training and Sight-singing Test; 10 Question Quiz
Week 22:         The Circle of Fifths for Major and Minor Keys Together; Relative/Parallel Keys.
Benchmark #1 (Unit 5 Test: Ch.14 – Ch.17)
Week 23:         Interval; Naming the Interval; Major/Perfect Intervals in Major Scale; Analysis of Intervals in Major Scale; Ear Training Intervals (PP, M3, P5, P8); 10 Question Quiz
Week 24:         Interval Analysis Con’t; Simple/Compound Intervals; Ear Training (musictheory.net); Ear Training / Sight-singing Quiz
Week 25:         Minor/Diminished/Augmented Intervals; Ear Training (musictheory.net); 10 Question Quiz
Week 26:         Modification of Intervals; Analyzing and Writing All Types of Intervals; Intervals in Inversion; Ear Training (musictheory.net); 10 Question Quiz
Week 27:         Review all Intervals (Maj. Min. Dim. Aug.)
Benchmark #2 (Unit 6 Test: Ch.18 – 19)
Week 28:         Chords; The Triad; Types of Triads; The Major Triad; Inversions of Triads; Triad Position; Doubling; 10 Question Quiz
Week 29:         Review Triads; Dissonance and Consonance; Chords in a Major Key.
10 Question Quiz
Week 30:         Melody Harmonization; Playing the Chord Progression I V7 I; Procedures for Harmonization; 10 Question Quiz
Week 31:         Con’t Harmonizing Melodies; Playing Chord Progressions Using I, IV, and V7
Ear Training / Sight-singing Quiz
Week 32:         The Minor Triad; Chords in a Minor Key; The Diminished and Augmented Triad
Harmonizing in Min, Dim, and Aug. Tonalities
Week 33:         Playing the Chord Progressions i V7 i; Harmonizing Melodies in Minor Keys.
Ear Training / Sight-singing
Week 34:         Benchmark #3 – (Unit 7 Test: Ch. 20 – Ch.23)
Performance Essay; Begin Work on Compositional Project.
Week 35:         General Review; Work Compositional Project
Week 36:         Benchmark #4 – (Compositional Project Presentation)
Benchmark #5 - Final Exam

Grading

Grades will be weighed as follows:
Formative Assessments: (50%)

Participation in Class Discussion / Daily Grades - 15%
Assignments/Projects/Quizzes - 15%
Study Guides - 20%

Summative Assessments (50%)

Chapter Tests - 20%
Midterm Exam - 15%
Final Exam - 15%

Grading Penalties:

1 day late = 25 points deducted from the grade
2 days late = 50 points deducted from the grade
3 days late = no credit

Compositions & Project Assignments

Minus 20 points per day late
Assignment must be turned in no later than the nine-week grading period for 50% credit.

Classroom Expectations

As an AP Music Theory student you are expected:

To listen and pay attention
To be respectful while others are talking or working
To refrain from eating during class
To abstain from any cell phone use (cell phones should not be out or seen)
To raise your hand before asking relevant questions or leaving the room
To have your materials daily and take notes
To be accountable and responsible for your work and success
To be the BEST student you can be!

BEGINNING MUSIC THEORY INFO. SHEET

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