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ANNOUNCEMENTS!

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COURSE SCHEDULE

MAY 1 — Complete your course evaluation here.

APR 29 — Individual Project Performances

APR 24 — EXAM 4
1. Play chord progression 9-4 in any of the keys listed.
2. Play The Star-Spangled Banner as though you were leading a class in its performance (up tempo, without pause).

12:00 Julia
12:06 Brandi
12:12 Ian
12:18 Justin
12:24 Jon
12:32 Nate
12:38 Tali
12:42 Isaiah

APR 17 + 22 — Practice Days

APR 15 — QUIZ 4
1. Play chord progression 8-3 or 8-8 (pg. 105) in one of the keys listed.
2. Play 8-22, 8-23, or 8-24 (sight reading pg. 109–110) in original and transposed key.
3. Play 8-25, 8-26, 8-27, or 8-28 (harmonizations pg 110–112) in original and transposed key.

APR 8 — Unit 8 harmonizations

APR 3 — Unit 8

APR 1 — EXAM 2 in D206
1. Score Reading / Transposing Instrument exercises from Units 6–7 (pg. 85, 87, 102, 103)
2. Play the chord progressions in Unit 6 in any major or harmonic minor key (pg. 82–83)
3. Play a harmonization from Unit 7 (pg. 99–100)

12:00 Julia
12:06 Justin
12:12 Brandi
12:18 Ian
12:24 Jon
12:30 Nate
12:36 Isaiah
12:42 Tali

MAR 25 + 27 — Unit 7 harmonizations, review for exam

MAR 20 — Unit 6 + 7

MAR 18 — NO CLASS (Practice on your own)

MAR 11–13 — SPRING BREAK (no class)

MAR 6 — Individual Project Checks — Unit 6

MAR 4 — QUIZ 3
1. Play scale and arpeggio two octaves hands together, chosen from the following list:
major: C, G, D, A, E or harmonic minor: Cm, Gm, Dm, Am, Em
2. One of the harmonizations from chapter 5 (5-15 through 5-17, original key and transposed to given key; 5-18 original key only)
3. Any triad in all inversions (LH / RH / both hands)

FEB 25 + 27 — Unit 5

FEB 20 — EXAM 1
1. Sightreading or Improvisation on given chord progession (your choice)
2. I – IV6/4 – I – V6/5 – I in major and minor, hands together in any given key
PLUS alternate voicing with tonic in soprano of RH, root in LH (like example 4-2) in major and minor in any given key
3. One of the harmonizations from chapters 1–4, as written and transposed in key given (1-21 1-22, 1-23, 2-15, 2-16, 2-17, 2-20, 3-12, 3-13, 3-14, 4-18, 4-19, 4-20)

12:00 Justin
12:06 Jon
12:12 Julia
12:18 Nathan
12:24 Ian
12:30 Brandi
12:36 Isaiah
12:42 Tali

FEB 18 — Unit 4 (improvisation + review)

FEB 13 — Unit 4 (harmonizations)

FEB 11 — QUIZ 2
1. Play one of the pieces on pg. 46–47 (3-9, 3-10, 3-11) — execute tempo, articulation, dynamics, pedaling, etc. properly
2. Play one of the harmonizations on pg. 47–48 (3-12, 3-13, 3-14), in original key (not transposed) — create some rhythmic LH accompaniment that is not just chords on the downbeat
3. Play the Bb trumpet line of Aura Lee or Ubi Caritas et Amor score reading (3-15 + 3-16)

FEB 6 — Score Reading and practice for quiz

FEB 4 — QUIZ 1
1. Play triad sequence on pg. 10 hands together ( M + M m º ) with any root, hands together
and one of the following exercises:
2. Play one of the pieces on pg. 20–21 (1-18, 1-19, 1-20)
3. Play one of the harmonizations on pg. 21–22 (1-21, 1-22, 1-23) in original or transposed key

Also Unit 2 (pg. 26–33)

JAN 30 — Unit 1 (pg. 18–22) continued (practice for your quiz)

JAN 28 — Unit 1 (pg. 18–22)

JAN 23 — Introductions / Syllabus / Unit 1 (pg. 8–17)