Course Materials: Materials of Music III

MUS211

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Basic Items: Syllabus and Assignments

• Fall 2011 Course Syllabus
• Fall 2011 Theory Assignments (tentative)
• Fall 2011 Class Phone/Email List
• Student Information Form
• Ferpa Release Form
• Student Survey Form on Fundamentals Course

• Figured-bass Notation Exercise #1
• Four-Part Writing: Error Detection Worksheet
• List of Common Student Errors (Part-writing & Analysis) and Examples of Common Student Errors (Part-writing)
• Harmonic Progression Handout
• Bassline Harmonic Patterns (chords to scale degrees)
• Shumway Theory I Keyboard (Diatonic Progressions with Triads in any inversion)
• Lecture on 6/4s
• Doubling Rules (includes 6/4 placements & notations)
• Order of Rules (prioritization of partwriting rules)
• Handout on Non-chord Tones
• Ornamented Chorale Lecture (Melody Harmonization of tune "Jesu, Leiden, Pein, und Tod" with NCTs)
• Ornamented Chorale Homework (PDF) Ver2 (Finale) (Melody Harmonization of tune "Jesu, Jesu, du bist mein" with NCTs)
• Quiz NCTs (definitions)
• Quiz NCTs (reduction & analysis)
• Texture Handout (basic terms and accompaniments)
• Sample Chorale Variation Analysis
• Chorale Variation Lecture (composition steps in PDF)
• Sample Student Chorale Variations S07
• Sample Student Chorale Variations F09
• Supplemental Reading: Speerstra, pp. 120-27 (PDF)
• Class's Chorale Variations
• Art-song composition handout

• Chord Identification "Cheat Sheet" and Example Chord Identifications
• Handout on Seventh-chord Usage
• Handout on Seventh-chord Partwriting
• K&P Self-Tests CH13-15 Solutions (marked with our analytical notation)
• Figured-bass exercises for sevenths (Shumway keyboard exercises)
• Harmonic Sequences exercises (keyboard exercises)
• Laitz Sequence ID (homework analysis)

• Standard Progression Handout (contains seventh chords)
• Chord ID Handout and Chord ID Examples
• Handout on Secondary Functions
• Modulation Analysis Hints (step-by-step instructions)
• Handout on Finding Pivot Chords (step-by-step instructions)
• Lecture on Common-Chord Modulation to Close Keys (DM to em)
• Style Copy Exercise (Bass-line writing, Melody writing, Figured bass, Progression, Mel. Harmonization, Pivot Chords, Secondary Functions)
• Review Sheet for Test I
• Test I (password protected)
• Lecture on Modulation with Intermediate Keys (CM to EbM)

• Lecture on Augmented Sixths (p. 1 non-modulating, p. 2 simple modulations)
• Lecture on Stylish Modulations using Augmented Sixths (Hymn modulations up 1/2 step)
• Review Sheet for Test II
• Test II (password protected)
• Lecture & Homework on Enharmonic Spelling of o7. (introductory)
• Summary of Modulation Techniques

• Lecture/Analysis on Mozart's Confutatis (cto7 chords & Schenkerian reductions)
• Reduction Example from Lecture on Wagner's Prelude to Tristan (Fr+6 chords, roving keys, and Schenkerian reductions)
• Analysis Excerpts (Schubert's Die Liebe Hat Gelogen) (various items)
• Review Sheet for Test III
• Test III (password protected)

• Lecture on Set Theory and Lecture Notes on Set Theory (not perfect but good enough until I get time to correct things)
• Group Project List
• Group Project Evaluation Sheet
• Guidelines for Aural Analysis

• Final-Exam Review Sheet
• Final Exam (password protected)

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