- Wednesday,
- August 27
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- Buy Musician's Guide package
(textbook, workbook, anthology, and recordings)
Log onto Canvas, update the notification preferences for your
account, and post a message on the discussion board
Forward your FSU e-mail account, if necessary
- Read textbook pages 4-24
Page 5 - part I
- Page 7 - part I, last three on each
line; part II, last five on each line
- Page 8 - part III
Page 9 - all
Page 11 - C
In case your workbook hasn't arrived
yet, here are the scanned workbook
pages.
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- Friday,
- August 29
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- Read textbook pages 25-48
Page 13 - part I
Page 15 - part II, A and B, even
Page 16 - all
Page 19 - all
Page 20 - A, even
Still no workbook? Here are the scanned
workbook pages.
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- Monday,
- September 1
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- Labor Day -
no class
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- Wednesday,
- September 3
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- Quiz
#1: pitch and clef reading
- Read textbook pages 46-69
Pages 25-26 - A and B, even (marking the W and H is optional)
Page 27 - even
Page 29 - all
One last time, here are the scanned
workbook pages.
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- Friday,
- September 5
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- Read textbook pages 115-130
Page 61 - A, even
Pages 63-64 - parts I and II, even; part III (all; song names
not required)
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- Monday,
- September 8
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- Read textbook pages 131-134
Page 65 - even
Pages 67-68 - all (for IV B, notice that you are identifying
the interval between successive notes)
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- Wednesday,
- September 10
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- Read textbook pages 172-182
Page 69 - all
- Page 70 - first line
Do worksheet
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- Friday,
- September 12
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- Quiz
#2: major scales and key signatures
- Read textbook pages 183-188
- Read handout on first-species
counterpoint
Do worksheet
- Recommended: watch our video on first-species
counterpoint (see "Course Media")
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- Monday,
- September 15
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Read
textbook pages 70-79
Page 17 - part I
Pages 35-36 - all
Recommended: watch our video on good rhythmic notation in compound
meters (see "Course Media") |
- Wednesday,
- September 17
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- Page 37 - all
- Page 38 - even
- Do worksheet
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- Friday,
- September 19
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- Read textbook pages 80-85
Page 41 - all
- Page 43 - all
Pages 45-46 - all (Note: clearly there is a mistake in the last
question for C, and the intention is to ask about the relationship
between the voice and piano in measure 7.)
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- Monday,
- September 22
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- Quiz
#3: intervals
- Read textbook pages 86-88
- Do worksheet
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- Wednesday,
- September 24
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- Read textbook pages 89-106 (optional:
107-114)
Pages 47-48 - part I, even; part II, all
Pages 49-50 - all (important note: at the bottom of page 50,
the flats before scale-degrees 3 and 6 are inappropriate and
should be ignored)
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- Friday,
- September 26
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- Pages 51-52 - all
- Do worksheet
- Recommended: watch our video addressing
when to raise scale degrees 6 and 7 in minor (see "Course
Media")
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- Monday,
- September 29
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- Read textbook pages 135-142
Page 71 - lines 2 and 4
Page 72 - part II, even; part III, all
- Page 74 - part III, B
Page 81 - part I, line 3; part II, even
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- Wednesday,
- October 1
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- Quiz
#4: meter and rhythm
- Read textbook pages 143-151
Page 76 - B
Page 77 - part II
Page 79 - last three triads on each line
- Page 80 - all
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- Friday,
- October 3
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No assignment,
but you should try the practice
midterm. |
- Monday,
- October 6
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- Midterm
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- Wednesday,
- October 8
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No assignment |
- Friday,
- October 10
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- Read textbook pages 189-193
Page 113 - a, c, f, and h
- Any dissonance must be a passing tone;
only write one note in measure 3 (total of 4-5 notes per cantus
firmus fragment).
- Do worksheet
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- Monday,
- October 13
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- Read textbook pages 195-199
- Read handout on second-species
counterpoint
- Do worksheet
- Recommended: watch our videos on second-species
counterpoint (see "Course Media"; there are three relevant
videos)
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- Wednesday,
- October 15
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- Quiz
#5: minor scales
and key signatures
- Read textbook pages 152-155 and 158-161
Page 83 - lines C and D
Page 84 - A2 and A3
Page 85 - A1, A2, and A4
Page 86 - B (root and quality only; no figures required)
Page 91 - last three chords on each line
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- Friday,
- October 17
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- Read textbook pages 156-157 and 162-171
Page 87 - A1, A2, and A3; B3, B4, and B5
Page 88 - A1, A2, and A6; B1, B2, and B3
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- Monday,
- October 20
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- Read textbook pages 193-194
- Do worksheet
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- Wednesday,
- October 22
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Read
textbook pages 248-253
Page 145 - all
Page 147 - line B in keyboard spacing; line C in vocal spacing
Page 148 - line 2 |
- Friday,
- October 24
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- Quiz
#6: triads
- Read textbook pages 202-212
Page 121 - c, d, g, and h
Do worksheet
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- Monday,
- October 27
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- Read handout on fourth-species
counterpoint
Do worksheet
- Recommended: watch our video on fourth-species
counterpoint (see "Course Media")
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- Wednesday,
- October 29
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- Read textbook pages 240-247
Pages 143-144 - all
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- Friday,
- October 31
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- Read textbook pages 254-268
Pages 149-150 - all
Page 157 - all
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- Monday,
- November 3
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- Quiz
#7: seventh
chords
- Page 155 - last two on each line
Page 156 - all (contextual analysis not required)
- Do worksheet
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- Wednesday
- November 5
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- Read textbook pages 269-273
Do worksheet (recordings
are available online)
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- Friday,
- November 7
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- Society for
Music Theory meets - no class
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- Monday,
- November 10
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- Do worksheet
(don't use chords we haven't covered in class!)
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- Wednesday,
- November 12
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- Read pre-dominant handout
Pages 159-160 - part I, all (alternate between keyboard and vocal
style); part II, c; part III, B
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- Friday,
- November 14
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- Do worksheet
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- Monday,
- November 17
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- Do worksheet
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- Wednesday,
- November 19
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Read
textbook pages 287-290
Do worksheet (a recording is available) |
- Friday,
- November 21
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- Do worksheet
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- Monday,
- November 24
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Quiz #8: resolving dominant seventh chords
Do worksheet (a recording is available)
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- Wed. and Fri.,
- November 26-28
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- Thanksgiving
break - no classes
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- Monday,
- December 1
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- Do worksheet
(a recording is available)
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- Wednesday,
- December 3
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- Do worksheet
(a recording is available)
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- Friday,
- December 5
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No assignment,
but you should try the practice
final. |
- Monday,
- December 8
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- Final Exam (12:30-2:30 in Opperman Music Hall -- all
sections)
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