Syllabus


 * Music Theory I & II Course Syllabus **
 * Mr. Trumpy Theory I & II Instructor **
 * ftrumpy@shsd.org Bernards High School **


 * //__Required Materials to Bring to Class Everyday __// **** //: // **
 * //‘Practical Theory’ – Alfred Publishing, by Sandy Feldstein // **
 * //Teoria.com: Music Exercises // **
 * //Blank Manuscript Music Paper (or book) // **
 * //Supplemental Music Resources (Bring a Folder or Three Ring Binder) // **
 * //Required Texts& Workbooks Will Be Provided // **


 * //__Grades __// **** //: // **
 * //Tests 80% // **
 * //Time on Task 20% // **

= Music Theory I Sequence =

= __Weekly Schedule__ =

**//FRIDAY//**: Quiz, Artist profile
"Without music, life would be a mistake". Friedrich Nietzsche (October 15, 1844 – August 25, 1900) Philosopher, Poet, Composer

= January =

Week 1:
Lesson 1-4: The Staff, Treble Clef, Bass Clef, Note Flight Notation Software

Week 2:
Lesson 5-7 Note Duration: Whole-Half-Quarter Measures and bar lines Time signatures and note values Review & Quiz

Monday
Quiz Review..."Take your time" Lesson 5: Whole-Half-Quarter Notes Stems/Measures Complete Lesson 5

Tuesday Lesson 6: Measures-Bar Lines-Double Bar Lines Complete Lesson 6

Wednesday Lesson 7: Time Signatures and Note Values Teoria Exercises

Thursday Review Complete Lesson 8 Teoria Exercise: Rhythm- // Time Signature //

Friday Quiz Transcription: Nadia Solerno Sonenberg/Eileen Ivers/Regina Carter (Brubeck Composition)

Music Theory 2
Introduction to Sibelius
 * Week 1: **

Monday 9/17/12
Quiz review "Arranging rhythms based on meter" Lesson 9: The Grand Staff/Leger Lines Lesson 10: Additional Leger Lines "C" Lesson 11: Whole/Half/Quarter Rests

Complete Lesson 9-11 & Lesson 12 Review

Tuesday 9/18/12 Lesson 13: 2/4 Time Lesson 14: 3/4 Time Written Time Signature Exercise Sibelius Time Signature Exercise Teoria Exercise (Time Signatures)

Wednesday 9/19/12 Lesson 15: The Dotted Half Note Lesson 16: Review Lesson 17: Ties & Slurs Teoria Tutorials

Thursday 9/20/12 Review Sibelius Notation Software

Friday 9/21/12 Quiz Transcription: Nadia Solerno Sonenberg/Eileen Ivers/Regina Carter (Brubeck Composition)

= = = //Week 3:// =

Quiz Review
==== Lesson 9-11: Grand Staff/Leger Lines/Whole-Half-Quarter Rests ====

Quiz Review
==== Lesson 17-20: Ties, Repeats, 1st & 2nd Endings ====

Quiz Review
==== Lesson 17-20: Ties, Repeats, 1st & 2nd Endings ====

Through Lesson 24 (Rhythms)
Lesson 25-27 Accidentals/Enharmonics

Thursday
==== Lesson 13-14 Time Signatures Review 7 Practice Quiz ====

Whole and Half Step Quiz
= Nadja Salerno Sonnenberg, Eileen Ivers, Regina Carter with The Boston Pops =

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"Music happens to be an art form that transcends language."

Herbie Hancock
= //Week 4:// =

Noteflight Check
==== Lesson 17-21: Ties & Slurs, Repeats, 1st & 2nd Endings, Eighth Notes ====

Intervals: Lesson 49 - 52
==== Workbook 49-52 (Continuing from lesson 30 Wednesday) ====

==== Teoria.com: Exercises > Intervals > Ear Training ====

The Orchestration Process

Music Theory 1
==== Lesson 21 Review (Eighth Notes) & Rhythmic Dictation ====

Interval Identification
==== Teoria.com: Exercises > Intervals > Ear Training ====

Music Theory 1
==== Lesson 22 - 24 Eighth Rest, Dotted Quarter, Review ====

==== Teoria.com > Rhythmic Dictation (Add Eighth Rest's) ====

Music Theory 2
==== Lesson 30 - 32: Chromatic & Major Scales ====

Music Theory 1

 * 1) Review Lesson 17 - 21
 * 2) Rhythmic Dictation Practice
 * 3) Theory Workbook complete through lesson 21

Music Theory 2
==== Lesson 30 - 32: Chromatic & Major Scales ====

Rhythmic Dictation Quiz
==== Theory Workbook complete through lesson 21 ====

Music Theory 2
==== Major Minor Dictation/Interval (Whole/Half & Major/Minor 2nd's) & Major Scale Quiz ====


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Sting
<span class="huge" style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15pt;">"Music happens to be an art form that transcends language."

Herbie Hancock
= //Week 5:// =

Music Theory 1
==== Lesson 21 Review (Eighth Notes) & Accounting for pulse/downbeat-upbeat ====

Teoria.com: Key Signatures - Construction
==== Interactive Circle of Fifths ==== ====Circle of Fifths Example====


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Music Theory 1
==== Lesson 22 - 24 Eighth Rest, Dotted Quarter, Review ====

==== Teoria.com > Rhythmic Dictation (Add Eighth Rest's) ====

Major Scales Workbook Lesson 31-34
==== Teoria.com: Key Signature Construction & Identification ====


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Key Signature Review
==== Teoria.com: Key Signature Construction & Identification ====

Music Theory 1
==== Rhythmic Quiz based on Lesson 24 (Eighth Notes) ====

Herbie Profile Part 2

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Sting
= //Week 6: October 14-1////8// = = = = //<span style="color: #181818; font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 14px;">“If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.” // =
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<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #181818; font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 14px;">― <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #666600; font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 14px;">[|Albert Einstein] == Monday == == Music Theory 1 == ==== Mid-Quarter Review Lesson 1-24 ====

> Lesson 1- 24 Review > Assignment: Using NoteFlight write an 16 measure melody in ¾ time and include the following: > > Create a Piano Score and use both Treble and Bass clef. > > Use a variety of rhythms including all note values studied through the first 24 Lessons. > > Use leger lines where appropriate. > > Use ties and slurs where appropriate. > > Use at least one repeat sign and one 1st and 2nd ending.
 * 1) MUSIC THEORY I

== Monday == == Music Theory 2 == == Tuesday == == Music Theory 1 == ==== Lesson 1-24 continue Review Assignment ====
 * 1) Mid-Quarter Review Through Lesson 40
 * 2) Dynamics Vocabulary
 * 1) Lesson 25/26 Sharps & Flats


 * 1) Music Theory.net Keyboard note identification

== Tuesday == == Music Theory 2 == ==== Lesson 42 DC/DS, CODA, FINE ====

==== Lesson 43 Tempo Markings ====

==== Composition assignment ====

== Wednesday == == Music Theory 1 == ==== Composition Assignment ====

== Wednesday == == Music Theory 2 == ==== Composition Assignment ====

== Thursday == == Music Theory 1 == ==== Composition Assignment ====

== Thursday == == Music Theory 2 == ==== Composition Assignment ====

== Friday == == Music Theory 1 == ==== Presenting Compositions ====

== Music Theory 2 == == Friday == ==== Presenting Compositions ====

= //"Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence and wherto."// = = Ralph Waldo Emerson =
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Music Theory 1

 * 1) Lesson 25/26/27: Sharps, Flats & Naturals
 * 2) Lesson 28; Review
 * 3) Music Theory.net Keyboard note identification

Music Theory 2
==== Lesson 45-48: Sixteenth rhythms/Dotted Eighth/Review ====

Workbook...Check each others work
==== Musictheory.net > Interval Ear Training Exercise ====

Music Theory 1
==== Workbook Through Lesson 29 > Continue to Lesson 32 ====

Friday Quiz: Major Scales
==== Complete Whole and Half Step Assignment ====

Reducing Compound Intervals Quiz Review
==== Handouts due Friday (C. Compound Intervals & 3-Intervals and Transposition) ====

Quiz: Major Scales
==== Theory Workbook complete through lesson 35 ====

Quiz; Vocab and Interval Identification

 * 1) Herbie Profile Part 3


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Sting

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= <span style="color: #181818; font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 14px;">“Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.” ― <span style="color: #666600; font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 14px;">[|George Carlin] <span style="color: #181818; font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 14px;">/ <span style="color: #666600; font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 14px;">Friedrich Nietzsche =

== Week 8 == == Monday == == Music Theory 1 ==
 * 1) Quiz Review
 * 2) Whole/Half Step Review
 * 3) Lesson 35 Key Signatures
 * 4) Teoria: Key Signature Construction
 * 5) Lesson 36 (by end of class period)

== Monday == == Music Theory 2 == ==== Quiz Review ====


 * 1) Lesson 51: Chromatic Intervals
 * 2) Lesson 52 Review

== Tuesday == == Music Theory 1 == ==== Teoria: Key Signature Construction ====


 * 1) Noteflight: Write Scales using Key Signatures "C", "F", "Bb", "Eb", "G", "D", "A"

== Tuesday == == Music Theory 2 == ==== Lesson 57: Major Triads ====


 * 1) Lesson 58: Chords related to a key
 * 2) Teoria: Chords Tutorial
 * 3) Teoria: Triad Construction

== Wednesday == == Music Theory 1 == ==== Lesson 37: Circle of 5ths Sharp Keys ====

== Wednesday == == Music Theory 2 == ==== Lesson 59: Chord Progression ====
 * 1) Teoria: Key Signatures

== Thursday == == Music Theory 1 ==

==== Lesson 38: Circle-Flat Keys ====


 * 1) Review

== Music Theory 2 == == Thursday == ==== Chord Progression Review ====


 * 1) Teoria: Triad Construction

== Friday == == Music Theory 1 == ==== Quiz: Circle/Key Signatures ====

== Music Theory 2 == == Friday == ==== Quiz: Chord Progression ====


 * 1) Herbie Profile Part 3

== Herbie Hancock "Possibilities", with... == ==== ...Christina Aguilera ==== ==== John Mayer ==== ==== Raul Midon ==== ==== Carlos Santana (37:30) ==== ==== Paul Simon ==== ==== Brian Eno ==== ==== Annie Lennox ==== ==== Johnny Lang/Joss Stone ==== ==== Sting ====
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= Weather Report "Birdland" =

= November =

Lesson 40: Review Circle of 5ths

 * 1) Teoria: Key Signatures

Music Theory 2
==== Lesson 64: I-IV-V7 Chord Progression with inversions ====

Circle of fifths

 * 1) Review

Chord Progression Review

 * 1) Teoria: Triad Construction/Harmonic FUnctions

Quiz: Chord Progression
"Will we run out of music"

= Week 10: =

Music Theory 1

 * 1) Lesson 40 Review on Screen
 * 2) Lesson 41 complete in class and review
 * 3) Lesson 44 Quiz on Friday

Lesson 60 Quiz Review

 * 1) Lesson 65 Transposition

Music Theory 2
==== Transposition Composition Exercise "Ode to Joy" ====

Thursday
==== Lesson 67: Augmented and diminished triads ====

Lesson 68 Quiz
= Week 11: =

Sequencing Software & Musical Forms
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Music Theory 1

 * 1) Complete and Review Composition Project

Present Composition Project

 * 1) Lesson 45 & 46 Sixteenth notes and rests

Music Theory 1
==== Lesson 47 Dotted eighth notes and Lesson review ====

Music Theory 1
==== Lesson 49 Intervals/Lesson 50 Diatonic Intervals ====

Interval Quiz

 * 1) John Williams Profile

Lesson 68 Quiz

 * 1) John Williams Profile

Music Theory 1

 * 1) Lesson 50: Diatonic Intervals

Music Theory 2
==== Lesson 73: Relative minor key signatures and natural minor scales ====

Lesson 58: Chords related to a key

 * 1) Lesson 59: Chord Progressions

Friday
==== Continuation and completion of harmonizing a melody quiz. ====

Week 15
= "New Clothes for an Old Tune" composition project = = January =

Lesson 60 Review

 * 1) Lesson 61 Dominant 7th Chords

Music Theory 2
==== Composition presentation: Students will present their "Ashokan Farewell" compositions. ====

Music Theory 1
==== Lesson 62 & 63: Inversions & Inversions of dominant 7th chords ====

Thursday
==== Lesson 79: Composing a melody: Students will compose a melody using noteflight ====

Lesson 64 Quiz

 * 1) Eric Whitacre Virtual Choir

Lesson 80 Quiz
Eric Whitacre Virtual Choir

= = = Week 17 =

Semester Review
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