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Homework
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responsibility of the student to
obtain any missed homework assignments BEFORE the next class meeting,
even if the assignment is not posted here.
MUS 500 Theory Seminar
For Tuesday, June 9:
A. You will need to use NotePad or one of the Finale computer notation
programs for this class. Finale is installed on the computers in the
music lab. Or you can download Notepad here for $9.95:
http://www.finalemusic.com/notepad/
PrintMusic and Allegro are also good programs but cost more:
http://makemusic.com/notation_software.aspx
Please DO NOT use Sibelius unless you can save the files as a pdf.
B. Go to my music theory webpage and scroll to the bottom. Download and
print the first chapter on Clef and Pitch Names and the Pitch Worksheet
under Fundamentals of Music. This is a packet designed to prepare
entering freshmen for the music major theory sequence.
1. For what age groups would this material be
appropriate? How might is need to be modified or supplemented?
2. Using NotePad or one of the Finale programs,
create your own worksheet for high school students and one for students
in the 5th grade.
C. Go to http://www.musictheory.net/index.html
1. click on Trainers
2. click on Note Trainer
3. on the right, click on Settings
4. enable all clefs by clicking on them
5. drag the top and bottom notes in each staff so they move to one
ledger line above and below the staff.
6. click on Settings again
7. identify the note on the staff by clicking on the correct letter
name below.
Go to http://www.musictheory.net/index.html
1. click on Trainers
2. click on Keyboard Trainer
3. on the right, click Black Keys ON, DO NOT click on Toggle Helpers
4. click New Key
5. practice identifying the notes.
For what age groups would this online material be appropriate?
D. Find three other websites or online materials that teach pitch
identification and/or pitch keyboard training.
1. Write a review for each including pros, cons,
what could be improved and age suitability. We will visit these
websites in class.
E. Go to http://www.music.vt.edu/musicdictionary/appendix/clefs/Clefs.html
1. Which of these clefs are still in common use and
by what instruments and/or voices?
F. Go to
http://www.music.vt.edu/musicdictionary/appendix/pitch/pitch.html
1. Notice that middle c is designated as c1. Find
another system of designating pitches and octaves.
2. For what age might the use of an octave
designation system be appropriate?
G. Go to http://www.good-ear.com/servlet/EarTrainer
1. Try the perfect pitch ear training exercises.
2. What is the difference between relative pitch and
perfect pitch?
3. Do you think perfect pitch training would be
useful in K-5, middle school, high school, college?
For Wednesday, June 10:
A. Go to my music theory webpage
http://www.wku.edu/~michael.kallstrom/musictheory.html
and scroll to the bottom. Download and print the chapters on Spelling
Major and Minor Scales, and the Scales Worksheet under Fundamentals of
Music.
1. For what age groups would this material be
appropriate? How might is need to be modified or supplemented?
B. Go to http://www.musictheory.net/index.html
1. go to the Lessons on major scales, minor scales
and scale degrees.
2. for whom might these lessons be appropriate?
3. go to the Trainers and try the Scale Ear Trainer.
Notice it includes modes.
C. Find three other websites or online materials that teach scales and
modes.
1. Write a review for each including pros, cons, what
could be improved and age suitability. We will visit these websites in
class.
D. Find at least one website that teaches the whole tone scale, one
that teaches the pentatonic scale and one that teaches the octatonic
scale.
1. Write a review for each including pros, cons, what
could be improved and age suitability.
For Thursday, June 11:
A. Go to http://www.musictheory.net/index.html
1. go to the Lessons on Note Durations, Measure and
Time Signatures, Simple and
Compound Meter and Odd Meter.
2. Review the explanation of Time Signatures and
Meter.
B. Find three other websites or online materials that teach rhythm and
meter.
1. Write a review for each including pros, cons, what could be improved
and age suitability.
C. Go to http://teoria.com/exercises/ritmo-ear.htm
1. Try the exercises on Time Signatures and Rhythmic
Dictation.
2. Review these exercises. For whom are they
appropriate?
D. Using Notepad or Finale, devise your own document explaining
simple and compound meter. Make your explanation suitable for young
children.
E. Listen to these works on Naxos Music Library (go here to log in: http://www.wku.edu/library/deansoffice/online.htm
) and determine the meter for each:
1. 7035 Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.6,
“Pathetique”, 2nd movement
2. 8.557821-22 Bartok, Mikrokosmos (complete), no. 153
3. BIS-CD-1400 Villa-Lobos: Bachianas brasileiras
No.9, 2nd movement
4. 8.550193 Holst: Planets (The), Mars
5. 8.559099 Bernstein: Symphony No.2, Variation X
For Monday, June 15:
A. Go to my theory webpage: http://www.wku.edu/~michael.kallstrom/musictheory.html
and download the pdf “music theory quickfacts.”
Study the first page that reviews basics of diatonic harmony.
B. Go to http://www.sjc.cc.nm.us/pages/4424.asp
and click on Music Seven – Diatonic chords in Major and Minor Keys,
Harmonic analysis.
Go to slide 20 and do the harmonic analysis. Be sure to pause the slide
or it advance to the answers in the next slide. Do the same with slide
22.
C. Go to my theory webpage and download the pdf file Mozart-Sonata in C
major in the MUS 500 section of the page.
Give a Roman numeral analysis of mm.1-18.
D. Find three websites or online materials that teach 4-part writing
with diatonic triads and seventh chords.
1. Write a review for each including pros, cons, what
could be improved and age suitability.
E. Go to my theory webpage and download the pdf file Basic Chord
Symbols in the MUS 500 section of the page.
Give a chord symbol analysis of the harmonies on the second page.
Click here for the Basic Chord
Symbols.
Click here for the
Mozart-Sonata in C.
For Tuesday, June 16:
A. Find three websites or online materials that teach secondary
(applied) dominants and secondary (applied) diminished seventh chords.
1. Write a review for each including pros, cons, what
could be improved and age suitability.
B. Find at least one site where you can download a chromatic harmony
worksheet. You may have to search for chromatic harmony, applied
chords, secondary dominants, etc.
C. Give an analysis of the following examples from the Secondary
Dominants and Diminished Seventh handout:
1. pg. 1, Beethoven, mm. 6-14
2. pg. 3, Beethoven, mm.1-5
3. pg. 4, Symphony No. 40, mm. 1-4
4. pg. 6, Mozart, mm.1-6
5. pg. 9, Beethoven, mm.6-9
6. pg. 12, Schubert, mm.9-16
For Wednesday, June 17:
A. Review this page (nos. 1-3) on the origin of Augmented Sixth chords:
http://www.sfcmtheory.com/harmony_supplements/chap_29.htm
B. Find three websites or online materials that teach Borrowed/Modal
Mixture chords, Neapolitan 6th,or Augmented Sixth chords.
1. Write a review for each including pros, cons, what
could be improved and age suitability.
C. Give an analysis of the following examples from the Chromatic Chords
handout:
2. pg. 3, Brahms, mm.1-6
3. pg. 4, Beethoven, mm. 1-4
4. pg. 10, Mozart, mm.1-4
5. pg. 11, Beethoven, mm.1-9
D. Go to http://www.musescore.org/
and click on Downloads to the right. If you have a Mac, there is a
“alpha” test version you can download. This is a freeware music
notation program.
1. Write a review including pros, cons, what could be
improved and age suitability.
For Thursday, June 18:
A. Find three websites or online materials that teach Musical Phrase
and Period. You may also want to search for Musical Form.
1. Write a review for each including pros, cons, what
could be improved and age suitability.
B. Examine the following examples for the handout. For each, Give a
Roman numeral analysis and classify the period structures as:
1. Symmetrical or Asymmetrical
2. Parallel or Contrasting
3. Modulating or Non-modulating
FINAL PROJECT
1. Develop an age appropriate music fundamentals
sequence that is primarily based on internet web resources that may
include the following:
• Pitch and Clefs
• Scales
• Key Signatures
• Triads
• Intervals
• Rhythm
• Meter
• Basic 4-part writing and use of triads in inversion
2. The sequence should be designed primarily for
independent study with some supervision by the instructor. Each section
of the sequence should include:
• a short written introduction by the instructor
• web-based study and practice assignments
• progress assessment.
3. Include specific guidelines on what material is to
be studied on each website and step-by-step instructions on how to
navigate the web page. Devise a way for the student to document the
completion of each online assignment.
4. For each topic, create your own written tool that
will assess the student’s progress. This may include written
assignments and creative activities or games, as well as performance
assignments.
5. Use at least two websites for each topic and at
least six different web sites overall.
6. Devise a final project that involves the
composition of a short piece using the elements covered in the sequence
in a creative manner. If appropriate, the student should complete this
project using computer-notation software.
MUS 100
MUS
101
MUS
200
MUS 201
MUS
407 Orchestration
MUS
405 Choral
Arranging
MUS 500 Theory
Seminar
MUS 201
Sonatina files
MUS 201 sonatina-1st
theme and transition
MUS 201
sonatina-2nd theme and closing
MUS 201
sonatina-development section
MUS 201
sonatina-recap
Download this .pdf
file for a three-page, quick review of music theory:
music theory quick facts
This link will
take you to a very
good website for fundamentals. There are lessons and practice sessions.
http://www.musictheory.net/
You can download
this program to use
without going online here:
http://www.musictheory.net/downloads.html
FUNDAMENTALS OF MUSIC
(theory packet for entering freshmen - click on each topic to download
the pdf file)
1. Clef and Pitch Names
2. Pitch Worksheet
3.
Accidentals, Half steps and Whole Steps
4. Half Steps
and Whole Steps Worksheet
5. Major Key Signatures
6. Minor Key Signatures
7. Key Signatures Worksheet
8. Spelling Major
Scales
9. Spelling Major
Scales - part 2
10. Major Scales in Treble Clef
11. Major Scales in Bass Clef
12. Spelling Minor Scales
13. Spelling Minor
Scales- part 2
14. Natural Minor Scales
in Treble Clef
15. Natural Minor Scales
in Bass Clef
16. Harmonic Minor
Scales in Treble Clef
17. Harmonic Minor Scales
in Bass Clef
18. Melodic Minor Scales
in Treble Clef
19. Melodic Minor Scales
in Bass Clef
20. Scales Worksheet
21. Spelling Intervals
22. Intervals Worksheet
23. Spelling Triads
24. Major Triads in Treble Clef
25. Triads Worksheet
26. Rhythm and Duration
27. Rhythm and Duration Worksheet
28. Meter
29. Meter Worksheet