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ANNOUNCEMENTS!
Homework is listed the day it is assigned, to be due the following class period unless otherwise noted.
DEC 16 — 8-11 AM — Sight Singing Final in D104
•Scales (in C, using letter names) — ionian, dorian, phrygian, lydian, mixolydian, aeolian, locrian, blues, octatonic (half-whole and whole-half), whole tone, chromatic
•Arpeggiation 25 + 26 (using scale degree numbers) — handed out in class throughout semester
•Prepared Melodies (using letter names) — handed out in class 12/9, see below
•Accompanied Melodies (using letter names and playing other part on piano)
•Sight-read Melody
PDF of materials to prepare
8:00 — Aguiar
8:10 — NeJame
8:20 — Zhang
8:30 — Bramble
8:40 — Gomes
8:50 — Motroni
9:00 — Ursino
9:10 — Oates
9:20 — Konieczny
9:30 — Rebello
9:40 — Valleley
9:50 — Rice
10:00 — Turner
10:10 — Caputo
10:20 — DeBishop
10:30 — Hellwig
10:40 — Klepacki
10:50 — Ianni
DEC 11 — Dictation Quiz #12 — TRANSCRIPTIONS DUE
DEC 9 —Extended Harmonies / Review
DEC 7 — Extended Harmonies / Review
DEC 4 — Dictation Quiz #11
Homework: Practice identifying intervals, triads, and 7th chords in inversion, sing melodies (especially those that modulate), arpeggiation workshops, sing Bach chorales
DEC 2 — Augmented Sixth Chords and Modulation
Homework: Practice identifying intervals, triads, and 7th chords in inversion, sing melodies (especially those that modulate), arpeggiation workshops, sing Bach chorales
NOV 30 — Augmented Sixth Chords and Modulation
Homework: Practice identifying intervals, triads, and 7th chords in inversion, sing melodies (especially those that modulate), arpeggiation workshops, sing Bach chorales
NOV 27 — NO CLASS
NOV 25 — Augmented Sixth Chords and Modulation
Homework: Practice identifying intervals, triads, and 7th chords in inversion, sing melodies (especially those that modulate), arpeggiation workshops
NOV 18 — Augmented Sixth Chords and Modulation
Homework: Practice identifying intervals, triads, and 7th chords in inversion, sing melodies (especially those that modulate), arpeggiation workshops
NOV 16 — Augmented Sixth Chords and Modulation
Homework: Practice identifying intervals, triads, and 7th chords in inversion, sing melodies (especially those that modulate), arpeggiation workshops
NOV 13 — Augmented Sixth Chords and Modulation — transcription proposal due
Homework: Dictation Quiz #9 (take home) — Transcribe Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" from the first "MAMA" to the "nothing really matters" (1:00–1:49) — notate vocal line, bass line, piano chords (RH) when it enters, and Roman numeral analysis in context of the key (it modulates and has modal mixture)
NOV 11 — NO CLASS
NOV 9 — Augmented Sixth Chords and Modulation
Homework: Practice identifying intervals, triads, and 7th chords in inversion, sing melodies (especially those that modulate), arpeggiation workshops
NOV 6 —Dictation Quiz #8
Homework: Practice identifying intervals, triads, and 7th chords in inversion, sing melodies (especially those that modulate), arpeggiation workshops
NOV 4 — Augmented Sixth Chords
Homework: Practice identifying intervals, triads, and 7th chords in inversion, sing melodies (especially those that modulate), arpeggiation workshops
NOV 2 — Augmented Sixth Chords
Homework: Practice identifying intervals, triads, and 7th chords in inversion, sing melodies (especially those that modulate), arpeggiation workshops
OCT 30 — Dictation Quiz #7
Homework: Practice identifying intervals, triads, and 7th chords in inversion, sing melodies (especially those that modulate), arpeggiation workshops
OCT 28 — Neapolitan Chord / Seventh Chord Inversion / Mixture / Modulation
Homework: Practice identifying intervals, triads, and 7th chords in inversion, sing melodies (especially those that modulate), arpeggiation workshops
OCT 26 — Neapolitan Chord / Seventh Chord Inversion / Mixture / Modulation
Homework: Practice identifying intervals, triads, and 7th chords in inversion, sing melodies, arpeggiation workshops
OCT 26 — Neapolitan Chord / Seventh Chord Inversion / Modulation through Mixture
Homework: Practice identifying intervals, triads, and 7th chords in inversion, sing melodies, arpeggiation workshops
OCT 23 — Dictation Quiz 6
Homework: Practice identifying intervals, triads, and 7th chords in inversion, sing melodies, arpeggiation workshops
OCT 21 —Neapolitan Chord / Seventh Chord Inversion
Homework: Practice identifying intervals, triads, and 7th chords in inversion, sing melodies, arpeggiation workshops
OCT 19 — Neapolitan Chord / Seventh Chord Inversion
OCT 16 — Dictation Quiz 5
Homework: Practice identifying intervals, triads, and 7th chords in inversion, sing melodies, arpeggiation workshop 25
OCT 14 — Neapolitan Chord
Homework: Practice identifying intervals, triads, and 7th chords in inversion, sing melodies, arpeggiation workshop 25
OCT 12 — Modal Mixture
Homework: Practice identifying intervals, triads, and 7th chords in inversion, sing melodies, arpeggiation workshop 20
OCT 9 — Modal Mixture
Homework: Dictation Quiz 4 (take home transcription) — notate the chorus of the Beatles' "Oh! Darling" (pickup to 1:08, "When you told me...") writing bass line, vocal line, and chord progression in Roman numerals (it's in the key of A major, 6/8 time). You may use a piano/instrument or music notation software to help check your work, but please limit your additional help to those two things.
OCT 7 — special guest Dhanashree Pandit Rai
Her TEDx talk
Blues Kauns video she showed in class
Homework: Practice identifying intervals, triads, and 7th chords in inversion, melodies
OCT 5 — Modal Mixture
Homework: Practice identifying intervals, triads, and 7th chords in inversion, melodies
OCT 2 —Dictation Quiz 3
Homework: Practice identifying intervals, triads, and 7th chords in inversion, melodies, arpeggiations 16+17
SEPT 30 — Secondary Dominants and Modulation
Homework: Practice identifying intervals, triads, and 7th chords in inversion, melodies
SEPT 28 — Secondary Dominants and Modulation
Homework: Practice identifying triads and 7th chords in inversion, melodies
SEPT25 — Dictation Quiz 2
Homework: Practice duets (handout)—sing one voice, play the other at the piano
SEPT 23 — Secondary Dominants and Modulation
Homework: Practice your melodies, arpeggiations, and dictations (Auralia or otherwise), 7th chord inversions
SEPT 21 — Secondary Dominants and Modulation
Homework: Practice arpeggiation workshop 16, identifying triads and 7th chords in inversion, blues/pentatonic scales
SEPT 18 — Dictation Quiz 1
Homework: Practice Karpinski 54 melodies (handout), arpeggiations, identifying triads and 7th chords in inversion
SEPT 16 — Secondary dominant chords
Homework: Practice identifying triads and their inversions, root position 7th chords (with partner or on computer), arpeggiation workshop 15 and Marcozzi melodies below
SEPT 14 — Secondary dominant chords
Homework: Practice identifying triads and their inversions, root position 7th chords (with partner or on computer), and Marcozzi melodies below
SEPT 11 — Mock dictation quiz
Homework: Practice arpeggiation workshop A15-1 (handout) and melodies on Marcozzi pg. 270–271