CLASS AND ASSIGNMENT SCEDULE
(See also: Syllabus)
The listed reading, workbook, and sight singing assignments are to be completed for the class session following the date they are listed. All other assignments, quizzes, etc. are due on the date listed. For Wednesday lab sessions, the class will divide into two halves. These sessions will be 25 minutes long (starting at 9:00 AM and at 9:25 AM), and will start and end PROMTLY. I may add a third session, depending on class enrollment.
Wednesday, 8/28/02 “Introduction”
Read: Copley, p. 1-4 (Handout)
Friday, 8/30/02 “Notation” - Workbook folder
(empty but labeled) due
Divide class for lab sessions
Monday, 9/2/01 “Notation continued”
Exercise 1 due
Wednesday, 9/3/02 “The piano” (in piano
lab)
Read: Copley, p. 5-6.
Friday, 9/6/02 “Intervals – Unisons, Major and minor seconds”
- Workbook due
Read: Piston, Chapter one (p. 3-8); Kostka/Payne, p. 6-9 (Major Scale)
and 13-14 (minor scale)
Monday, 9/9/02 “The Major and minor scales”
Exercise 2 due
Wednesday, 9/11/02 “Scales continued” (in piano lab)
Friday, 9/13/02 “ Fifths, the Circle of Fifths, Key Signatures
“ - Workbook due
Read: Remainder of Kostka/Payne, Chapter one. (through pg. 27)
Monday, 9/16/02 “ Fifths, the Circle of Fifths, Key Signatures
– cont’d”
Exercise 3(b) due
Wednesday, 9/18/02 “Lab day”
Friday, 9/20/02 “Intervals” - Workbook due
Intervals for Exercise 4 to be given
Monday, 9/23/02 “Intervals cont’d”
Wednesday, 9/25/02 “Lab day”
Read: Kostka/Payne, Chapter two (p. 28-40); Copley, Chapter seven (p.
20-26)
Friday, 9/27/02 “Rhythm” - Workbook due
Monday, 9/30/02 “Rhythm – cont’d”
Wednesday, 10/2/02 “Lab day”
Friday, 10/4/02 “Rhythm – cont’d; Full-class sight singing session” - Workbook due
Monday, 10/7/02 or Tuesday, 10/8/02 - SIGHT SINGING / EAR
TRAINING MIDTERM
Sign up for a time slot on one of these two days before the end
of Friday's class session.
Wednesday, 10/9/02 “Musical style, the concept of form, and the Common Practice Period” (not in lab)
Friday, 10/11/02 “Triads”- Workbook due
Monday, 10/14/02 “Triads continued”
Wednesday, 10/16/02 - “Lab day” Workbook due (note: due
before break)
NOTE: This is an actual class session and may contain new material.
It will be your last chance to ask questions concerning the midterm before
taking the midterm with you. Midterms will be distributed at the
end of this class session and will be due at the start of class on Wed.,
10/23/02 WITHOUT EXCEPTION.
Read: Piston, Chapters four (p. 30 – 43), and nine (p. 96-107); Copley, Chapter 16 (p. 92-98)
Friday, 10/18/02 MID SEMESTER BREAK
– NO CLASS
Monday, 10/21/02 “The Inversion of Triads, Figured Bass”
Wednesday, 10/23/02 – Midterm Exams due at start of class ”Lab day”
Friday, 10/25/02 “ “Inversions and Figured Bass cont’d” - Workbook due
Monday, 10/28/02 “Cadences; Introduction to Four-part Writing” - FIRST CONCERT ESSAY DUE
Wednesday, 10/30/02 “Lab day” - Workbook due
Melody assignment due
Friday, 11/1/02 – NO CLASS
Monday, 11/4/02 “Cadences, cont’d”
Wednesday, 11/6/02 “Lab day”
Friday, 11/8/02 “The Major-minor 7th Chord (V7), Non-harmonic Tones in Analysis” - Workbook due
Monday, 11/11/02 “Melody and Form”
Wednesday, 11/13/02 “Rhythm revisited - asymmetrical meters” (NOT in lab)
Friday, 11/15/02 “The Baroque”
Monday, 11/18/02 “The Classic Period and Sonata-Allegro Form”
Wednesday, 11/20/02 “Lab day”
Friday, 11/22/02 “Popular music form and structure” - Workbook due
THANKSGIVING BREAK
Monday, 12/2/02 “Four-part writing; Analysis”
Wednesday, 12/4/02 “Lab day”
Exercise 9(a) due
Friday, 12/6/02 “Analysis cont’d” - Workbook due
Monday, 12/9/02 OR Tuesday, 12/10/02 “Ear training / Sight singing
Final” - SECOND CONCERT ESSAY DUE
Sign up for a time slot on one of these two days before the end
of Friday's class session.
Wednesday, 12/11/02 “Review and postmortem” - Workbook due
Final Exam – 12/16/02 2:00 PM
If you have any questions about this schedule, talk to me before there is a problem!
Reading assignments are from:
Copley, R. Evan. Harmony: Baroque to Contemporary. Champaign,
IL; Stipes Publishing, 1798, 1991.
Kostka, Stefan and Dorothy Payne. Tonal Harmony (Fourth Ed.). Boston, etc.; McGraw Hill, 2000.
Piston, Walter. Harmony (Third Ed.). New York; W.W. Norton, 1962.
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