Class Notes by Date
Blank Staff Paper
Note-Taking Paper (keyboard, musical staff, and regular lines)
3/4/15: Secondary Leading Tone Chords
2/11/15: Motives, Phrases, and Periods (excerpt from "Tonal Harmony," Kostka and Payne)
2/4/15: Modal Scales and Review of Scale Degree Names
1/23/15: Review of Secondary Dominants, Prepare for Secondary Dominant Quiz on Tues, 1/27
1/21/15: Perfect and Imperfect Authentic Cadences
1/16/15: Non-Chord Tones (excerpts from "Tonal Harmony", Kostka and Payne)
1/14/15: Review of Part-Writing Guidelines
1/12/15: Secondary Dominant Chords (excerpts from "Tonal Harmony", Kostka and Payne)
12/17/14: Official Final Exam Schedule 8 AM - 10 AM
12/15/14: Begin Final Exam (Multiple Choice Section)
12/11/14: Semester Review
12/9/14: Non-Chord Tones
Musical Forms
12/5/14: Secondary Dominant Chords
Perfect/Imperfect Authentic Cadences (PAC's or IAC's)
12/3/14: Introduction to Secondary Dominant Chords
12/1/14: Chromatic Notation in Figured Bass
Vocabulary Terms on the AP Exam
11/14/14: Tendencies in Chord Progressions
Types of Cadences
11/12/14: Triads and Seventh Chords in a Minor Key
Three Forms of the Minor Scale
11/6/14: Voice-Leading Guidelines when Realizing Figured Bass
11/4/14: Continue Figured Bass Work
10/23/14: Review of Realizing Figured Bass Symbols
10/21/14: Types of Seventh Chords
10/17/14: Figured Bass Summary
Seventh Chords
10/15/14: Diatonic Triads in a Minor Key
10/13/14: Review of Scale Degree Names
10/9/14: Triad Inversions and Figured Bass
10/7/14: Interval Inversions
10/3/14: The Relative Minor Scale
10/1/14: Chromatic Solfege, Do-Minor Scale
9/29/14: Diatonic Triads
9/19/14: Meter Signatures
9/17/14: Building Triads with Thirds
9/15/14: The Circle of Fifths/Fourths
Intervals from Syllables other than "Do"
9/11/14: Major Key Signatures
9/9/14: Triads in Solfege
9/5/14: Compound Meter
9/3/14: Dotted Rhythms
The following notes are for the first three weeks of school:
The Grand Staff and Major Scale
Simple Meter Note Durations and Rests
Intervals: Major, Minor, Perfect, Diminished, Augmented
Scale Degree Names
The Grand Staff and Major Scale
Simple Meter Note Durations and Rests
Intervals: Major, Minor, Perfect, Diminished, Augmented
Scale Degree Names