Advanced Music Theory and Composition (2020 -2021)

Creating

Performing

Responding

Connecting

read and notate music

introduction of improvised rhythms and melodies

compose and arrange music within specified guidelines

sing a varied repertoire of music, alone and with other

perform a varied repertoire of music on instruments, alone and with others

listen to, analyze, and describe music

evaluate music and music performances

understand relationships between music and other fine arts in interdisciplinary contexts

understand music in relation to history and culture

recognize rhythmic patterns (beats and subdivisions), in simple, compound, and complex/asymmetrical meters

notate rhythm in accordance with standard notation practices in simple, compound, and complex meters

identify rhythmic motives from written and aural examples in simple and compound meters

notate rhythmic patterns from dictated examples in simple and compound meters

identify and distinguish common terminologies of form, style, and musical expression

identify and notate melody and pitch in four clefs

identify and notate all major and minor key signatures

notate diatonic and non-diatonic melodies from a dictated source in simple and compound meters

identify and notate, visually and aurally, all perfect, major, minor, augmented, and diminished intervals within an octave, both ascending and descending

identify and notate scales visually and aurally (e.g., major, minor, church modes, whole- tone, chromatic, pentatonic)

identify and notate chords, visually and aurally (e.g., major, minor, augmented, diminished triads, seventh chords, and their inversions in open and closed spacing)

notate outer voices (soprano and bass) and Roman numerals from dictated traditional, primarily diatonic harmonic progressions

identify diatonic and non-diatonic chords and inversions (e.g., two-staff, four part score using Roman numeral analysis, figured bass, jazz lead sheet)

identify cadences visually and aurally (e.g., plagal, perfect authentic, imperfect authentic, half, deceptive)

demonstrate through written exercises a working knowledge of the rules governing three- and four-part writing as practiced during the common style period

identify elements of a musical score (e.g., transposing and non-transposing instruments, appropriate clefs for individual instruments, appropriate written ranges for each instrument, and score layout for piano, chamber ensemble, chorus, orchestra, band)

recognize the practice of transposing a melodic line to appropriate keys and clefs for any various instrument or groups of instruments

improvise short rhythmic ideas of up to eight bars

improvise short melodic ideas which incorporate scalar and chordal motives up to eight bars

compose melodies in major and minor keys using compositional techniques (e.g., antecedent/consequent phrase structures, unifying motives, sequences, appropriate cadences, variety of embellishments and non-harmonic tones which move according to the principles of voice-leading from the Common Practice Period)

construct appropriate harmonization for composed and/or given melodies, in both major and minor keys, according to the principles of harmonization from the Common Practice Period

compose a complete musical composition using compositional techniques studied in class

arrange simple pieces for voices or instruments

demonstrate the ability to sing intervals at sight up to a ninth in simple and compound meter.

correctly sing scales (e.g., major, natural minor, jazz and traditional melodic minor, harmonic minor).

sight-sing notated diatonic melodies, in major and minor keys, in simple and compound meters

demonstrate the ability to play notated pitches, chords, scales, and melodic/rhythmic passages of no more than eight measures on the piano keyboard using F and G clefs

demonstrate the ability to play notated music on a second instrument using F, G, or movable C clef

visually and aurally identify monophonic, homophonic, and polyphonic textures in a score and in an audible performance

analyze monophonic, homophonic, and polyphonic musical forms from aural and written examples (e.g., simple binary, simple ternary, theme and variation, rondo, sonata allegro)

identify mode, meter, instrumentation, phrase and period structure, and cadences in given aural and written examples from the standard literature

listen to, evaluate, and analyze elements of theory and form in a given musical composition

using student-created criteria, evaluate a music performance

identify and describe various uses of music in daily experiences (e.g., artistic expression, learning tool, purpose-driven, ceremonial, ambient)

explain and explore how the theory of music composition and analysis has been influenced by and integrated with other fine arts disciplines

demonstrate through a study of written examples a solid understanding of how music composition and analysis is based upon mathematic and scientific principles

describe and analyze the characteristics of the major periods of European music (Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Twentieth Century) (e.g., harmony, style, form) and the correlation between music of those periods and the other fine arts of the respective era

describe and justify how major musical movements, figures, and events coincide with and/or were influenced by political, religious, and economic conditions of that era