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1 MUS 111, MUSIC THEORY 1 Schedule of Topics and Assignments Fall 10 1 SCHEDULE OF TOPICS AND ASSIGNMENTS Any changes to the following schedule will be announced in class or via . The following schedule of assignments will assist you in meeting the stated objectives and outcomes of this course. Applying the theoretical concepts to exercises, analyses, and creative work is central to our focus in theory class, but these applications should be equally applied outside of class in your performance studies: always remember that theory is never separate from practice! Date Topics Readings Due In-Class Activities Assignments Due The listed readings and online tutorials should be completed before each respective class period; they will be the foundation for our daily in-class activities. Please bring your textbook (TXT) and workbook (WKBK) to every class session, even if a specific activity is not listed for that date. [R] indicates in-class repertoire study or listening Assignments listed in this column will be collected and graded. Point values for each assignment are indicated in boldface type (eg. 5, 10,, 25) W 8 Sep Welcome and Introduction to the Course; working with Finale notation software TXT: Preface, pp. ix-xi Seven-Minute Write: Introduction Finale demonstration F 10 Sep Framing the Musical Vocabulary TXT: Ch. 1, pp (Teoría website: view the sub-sections titled Reading Musical Notes, An Example, Accidentals, Key Signatures, and Keyboard Notes under the Reading Music section) TXT: 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4 (pp ) M 13 Sep Shapes and Figures: What does musical notation communicate? W 15 Sep Organizing the Passage of Time: Simple, Compound, and Asymmetric Meter Signatures F 17 Sep Organizing Sound: Scale Patterns, Ancient and Modern Overview of Composition 1 TXT: Ch. 1, pp (Teoría website: view the remaining rhythm and meter subsections of the Reading Music section) Melodic Telephone WKBK: 1.G (p. 3) TXT: Review Ch. 1, pp. 3- TXT: 1.5, 1.6, 1.8 (pp ) (Teoría Clef Reading Exercises) (Teoría Time Signature Exercises) WKBK: Test Yourself 1 (p. 6) WKBK: 1.F (p. 2) and Finale demonstration Review Quiz 1: Note Names and Notations [R] Plainchant, Kyrie from Mass XIII [R] Martin Luther, Wir glauben and Aus Tiefer Not [R] Bartók, Mikrokosmos, BB 105, Vol. 1: No. 34. In Phrygian Mode WKBK: 1.A (only mm. 1-2 for each instrument), 1.B (evens), 1.C (evens), 1.D (evens), and 1.E (evens) WKBK: 1.H (all), 1.I (all), and 1.J (1-4 only) 10 Study for Review Quiz 1 WKBK: 1.F Engraving Project using Finale 5

2 MUS 111, MUSIC THEORY 1 Schedule of Topics and Assignments Fall 10 2 M Sep A Closer Look at Major and Minor: Scale Degree Names and Key Signatures Overview of Composition 2 W 22 Sep Scale Relationships and the Circle of Fifths Pitch Inventory Process F 24 Sep Synthetic Scales of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Polytonality Looking Beyond Pitch in Music TXT: Ch. 2, pp WKBK: 2.A, 2.B, and 2.C (pp. 7-8) TXT: Ch. 2, review pp (Teoría Scales Tutorial) TXT: Ch. 2, review pp (Teoría Scale Identification Exercises) [R] Ottman, (pp ) TXT: 2.6 (p. 51) WKBK: 2.G (p. 10) and 2.J (p. 12) Review Quiz 2: Major and Minor Key Signatures [R] Bartók, Mikrokosmos, BB 105, Vol. 5: No Whole-tone Scales [R] Messiaen, Transports de joie from L'Ascension (Outbursts of Joy from The Ascension), Le Banquet Céleste (The Heavenly Banquet) [R] Stravinsky, excerpts from Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring) Composition 1. Working with Scale Patterns 25 WKBK: 2.D and 2.F 10 Study for Review Quiz 2 WKBK: 2.E and 2.J M 27 Sep Review Scales, Tonality, Key, and Mode TXT: Review Ch. 2, pp WKBK: Test Yourself 2 (pp ) HANDOUT: Oliveros, Pauline. Some Sound Observations. In Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music, edited by Christopher Cox and Daniel Warner, New York and London: Continuum, 08. Discuss WKBK: 2.E (p. 9), 2.J (p. 12) [R] Ottman, (pp. -22) Written Exam I Review Composition 2. Monophonic Work 25 W 29 Sep WRITTEN EXAM I: Ch. 1-2 (75) Study for Written Exam I F 1 Oct Introduction to Melodic and Harmonic Intervals: Perfect, Major, Minor, Diminished, Augmented TXT: Ch. 3, pp (Teoría Interval Ear Training) TXT: 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3,4 (pp ) [R] Ottman, (pp ) Listening Activity 1 M 4 Oct Interval Inversions; Compound and Enharmonic Intervals TXT: Ch. 3, pp (attempt various interval exercises) TXT: 3.5, 3.9, 3.10 (pp ) Composition 2. Engraving and Intervallic Analysis W 6 Oct No Class: Nobel Conference Attend Nobel Concert on Tuesday, 5 October (8.00 PM, Christ Chapel) F 8 Oct Transposition and Transposing Instruments TXT: Ch. 3, pp [R] Schein, Suite No. 16 from Banchetto Musicale (Musical Banquet) [R] Bears. Beets. Battlestar Galactica! WKBK: 3.I (p. 22) WKBK 3.A (evens), 3.B (odds), 3.E (mm. 1-8 only), 3.G 10

3 MUS 111, MUSIC THEORY 1 Schedule of Topics and Assignments Fall 10 3 M 11 Oct Introduction to Triads, Tertian Chords, and Seventh Chords W 13 Oct Chord Inversions and Their Symbols Overview of Composition 3 TXT: Review Ch. 3, pp WKBK: Test Yourself 3 (p. 26) (Teoría Chord Tutorial) TXT: Ch. 4, pp (Teoría Triad Identification Exercises) F 15 Oct Roman Numeral Analysis I TXT: Ch. 4, review pp (attempt various chord exercises) Review Quiz 3 (Aural): Perfect, Major, and Minor Intervals TXT: 4.2 (p. 87) WKBK: 4.I (p. 29), 4.K (p. 30) [R] Pachelbel, Ciaccona in D [R] Bach, Passacaglia in c TXT: 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7, 4.8 (pp ) [R] Mendelssohn, Cast thy Burden from Elijah Study for Review Quiz 3 (Aural) WKBK: 3.L 10 WKBK: 4.A (all), 4.B (1-4 only), 4.C (1-4 only), 4.D (1-4 only) M 18 Oct Roman Numeral Analysis II TXT and WKBK: continued examples from Ch. 4 Mendelssohn Chord Analysis W Oct Review of Intervals, Triads, Chords, and Roman Numeral Analysis WKBK: Test Yourself 4 (pp ) Revisit online tutorials from this unit Written Exam II Review Composition 3. Ciaccona 25 F 22 Oct WRITTEN EXAM II: Ch. 3-4 (75) Study for Written Exam II M 25 Oct No Class: Reading Days Listening Activity 2 W 27 Oct Harmonic and Rhythmic Cadences: Placement and Purpose F 29 Oct Functions of Specific Cadence Types TXT: Ch. 5, pp ; scan Ch. 10, pp TXT: Ch. 5, review cadence types on pp (Southern Methodist University Cadences Tutorial) [R] Handel, Surely He Hath Borne Our Griefs from Messiah WKBK: 5.A (p. 33) WKBK: 5.B (p. 34, 225) 10 M 1 Nov Nonharmonic Tones I TXT: Ch. 5, pp (Teroía Nonharmonic tone Tutorial) W 3 Nov Nonharmonic Tones II TXT: Ch. 5, review nonharmonic tone types on pp WKBK: Test Yourself 5 (pp ) F 5 Nov Motives and Sequences TXT: Ch. 6, pp (attempt cadence identification exercises) TXT: 5.2 (p. 113) WKBK: 5.C (p ) in groups [R] J. S. Bach, Fantasy in G minor, BWV 542 WKBK: 5.G (pp ) WKBK: 6.A (pp ) Bach Fugue Examples [R] Beethoven, Symphony 5, Mvt. I [R] Ottman, (pp ) WKBK: 5.D, Complete #2 using Finale 10 WKBK: 5.F (p. 37, 175)

4 MUS 111, MUSIC THEORY 1 Schedule of Topics and Assignments Fall 10 4 M 8 Nov Antecedent-Consequent Relationships, Melodic Phrases, and Periods TXT: Ch. 6, pp (Teoría Phrase and Period Tutorial) Review Quiz 4: Cadences and Nonharmonic Tones TXT: 6.3 (p. 138) [R] Haydn, Quartet No. 30 in E-flat, Mvt. IV Study for Review Quiz 4 W 10 Nov Other Aspects of Melodic Organization TXT: 6.4 (p. 139) in groups [R] Smetana, The Moldau [R] Torke, Javelin F 12 Nov Melodic Analysis I TXT: Review Ch. 6, pp WKBK: Test Yourself 6 (pp ) TXT: 6.7 (pp ) WKBK. 6.K (pp ) [R] Ottman, (pp ) WKBK: complete one exercise from 6.B (pp ), and complete all of 6.D and 6.E (p. 53) M 15 Nov Melodic Analysis II Overview of Composition 4 Group presentations of ELW melodic analyses W 17 Nov Introduction to Musical Texture TXT: Ch. 7, pp TXT: 7.1 (pp ) Texture Identification Practice (Aural) To Sing or Not to Sing: Melodies in ELW 25 F 19 Nov Textural Reduction Techniques TXT: Ch. 7, pp TXT: 7.2 (pp ) Composition 4. Descant and Hymntune 25 M 22 Nov Review of Structural Elements: Cadence, Nonharmonic Tones, Phrase, Period, and Texture TXT: Review Ch. 7, pp WKBK: Test Yourself 7 (pp ) Review Quiz 5: Musical Texture Instructions for Take-Home Exam III: Content, Process, Methodology, and Objectives Study for Review Quiz 5 Listening Activity 3 W 24 Nov No Class: Thanksgiving Recess F 26 Nov No Class: Thanksgiving Recess M 29 Nov EXAM III: Ch. 5-7 (75) Complete Take-Home Exam III: All exam materials due at start of class period. 29 Nov, cont. Overview of Composition 5 Introduction to Sectional Forms: Binary, Rounded Binary, Ternary, and Rondo W 1 Dec Musical Forms, continued; Introduction to Sonata Form Ch. 16, pp (Binary Form) and Ch. 17, pp (Ternary Form) (Teoría Musical Forms Tutorial) Review Ch. 6, pp (Melodic Organization) and Ch. 10, pp (Harmonic Progression and Harmonic Rhythm) F 3 Dec Musical Forms, continued HANDOUT: Jourdain, Robert. To composition. In Music, The Brain, and Ecstasy: How Music Captures Our Imagination, New York: Quill (HarperCollins Publishers), [R] Bach, March and Polonaise from Anna Magdelena s Notebook [R] Schumann, Humming Song from Album for the Young [R] Mendelssohn, Song Without Words Op Group comparison of WKBK 10.G [R] Mozart, Symphony No. 38, Mvt. I WKBK: 10.G (p. 96, 194) Attend Christmas in Christ Chapel this weekend!

5 MUS 111, MUSIC THEORY 1 Schedule of Topics and Assignments Fall 10 5 M 6 Dec Twentieth-Century Developments I: expressionism and serial techniques, minimalism [R] Schoenberg, Piano Suite, Op. 25 [R] Webern, Concerto [R] Tenney, Chromatic Canon [R] Glass, Knee Play No. 5 from Einstein on the Beach [R] Pärt, Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten [R] Adams, Short Ride in a Fast Machine Form Analysis Assignment Schedule at least one 15-min. appointment on Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday to discuss Composition 5 W 8 Dec Twentieth-Century Developments II: electronic music and aleatoric designs Final Exam Overview and Practice Exam Instructions (Moodle) [R] Cowell, The Banshee (1925) [R] Johnson, Celestial Music for Imaginary Trumpets [R] Will Redman, Book [R] Ligeti, Volumina and Coulée [R] Cage, Williams Mix [R] Varèse, Poème électronique [R] Lucier, I Am Sitting in a Room [R] Dodge, He Destroyed Her Image [R] Ashley, Cindy Electronium F 10 Dec Composition 5 Presentations, Part I M 13 Dec Composition 5 Presentations, Part II W 15 Dec No Class: Reading Day Listening Activity 4 (submitted electronically by 5.00 PM on this date) Final drafts of Composition 5 and supporting materials (submitted electronically by 5.00 PM on this date) M Dec FINAL EXAM (125) PM, Vickner Hall 301 Study for Final Exam