Theory Archive
Unit 1 - The Science of Sound
Presentation - 1.1 (Intro to Sound)
Presentation - 1.2 (The Harmonic Series)
Unit 2 - Notation
Presentation 2.1 (Pitch Notation)
Presentation 2.2 (Rhythmic Notation)
Unit 3 - Scales and Key Signatures
Presentation 3.1 (Major Scales)
Presentation 3.2 (Circle of Fifths/Key Signatures)
Presentation 3.3 (Transposition)
Unit 4 - Minor Scales and Key Signatures
Presentation 4.1 (Minor Scales)
Unit 5 - Intervals & Chords
Presentation 5.3 (Seventh Chords)
Harmonic Analysis
Composition Project
Assignment 3: Harmonic Analysis
Assignment 4: Chord Sub/Mode Change
Music History
The Middle Ages (4/10/18)
Review: Listen Book Chapter 6 (pg 44-56)
Listening:
pg 48 Planchant antiphon
pg 54 Perotin "Alleluia. Diffusa est gratia"
pg 56 Machaut "Dame, de qui..."
The Renaissance (4/11/18)
Review: Listen Book Chapter 7 (pg 60-76)
Listening:
pg 62 Dufay "Ave maris stella"
pg 73 Weelkes "As Vesta Was from Latmos..."
Early Baroque (4/12/18)
Review: Listen Book Chapter 8 (pg 79-92)
Listening:
pg 81 Gabrieli "O magnum mysterium"
pg 88 Purcell "Dido and Aeneas"
Late Baroque (4/13-4/17/18)
Review: Listen Book Chapters 9 - 11
Listening
pg 122 Vivaldi "Spring"
pg 129 Bach "Fugue in C Major"
pg 138 Handel "Julius Cesar"
Classical (4/18-4/19/18)
Review: Listen Book Chapters 12 - 14
Listening
pg 167 Mozart "Symphony No. 40 in G minor"
pg 186 Mozart "Piano Concerto No. 23 in A"
Beethoven (4/20/18)
Review: Listen Book Chapters 15
Listening
pg 212 Beethoven "Symphony No. 5"
Romantic Period 4/23/18
Review: Listen Book Chapters 16
Listening
pg 226 Tchaikovsky "Romeo and Juliet"
Romantic Period Songs 4/24/18
Review: Listen Book Chapters 17
Listening
pg 236 Schubert "Erlkonig"
pg 238 Schumann "Dichterliebe"
Romantic Period Piano 4/25/18
Chopin "Polonaise in A-Flat Major"
Mozart (Classical Comparison) "K330"
4/26/18