Course Materials: Music Theory II

MUT 103

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Basic Items: Syllabus and Assignments

• Spring 2008 Course Syllabus
• Spring 2008 Theory Assignments (tentative)
• Spring 2008 Class Phone/Email List

• Four-Part Writing: Error Detection Worksheet
• Harmonic Progression Handout
• Bassline Harmonic Patterns (chords to scale degrees)
• Doubling Rules (includes 6/4 placements & notations)
• Order of Rules (prioritization of partwriting rules)
• Chord Identification "Cheat Sheet"
• WebCT instructions (step-by-step how to do CF interval quiz #1)
• Handout on Third species; Sample Species Analysis Handout
• Third-species Error-detection Exercises; Grading Rubric III; Tutorial III; 3rd-species Self-Test Answers; and WebCT exercises
• Writing Third-Species Counterpoint Handout
• Handout on Seventh-chord Usage
• Handout on Seventh-chord Partwriting
• Review Sheet for Test I
• Test I (password protected)

• 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)
• Lecture on Species->Chorale Phrase (PDF, continued from Fall sem.)
• Worksheet on Species->Chorale Phrase (PDF) or Worksheet on Species->Chorale Phrase (Finale) (continued from Fall sem.)
• Handout on Fifth species; Sample Species Analysis Handout
• Fifth-species Error-detection Exercises (PDF); Grading Rubric V; Tutorial V; 5th-species Self-Test Answers; and WebCT exercises
• Writing Fifth-Species Counterpoint Handout
• Quiz NCTs (definitions)
• Quiz NCTs (reduction & analysis)
• Sample Chorale Variation Analysis
• Chorale Variation Lecture (composition steps in PDF)
• Sample Student Chorale Variations
• Supplemental Reading: Speerstra, pp. 120-27 (PDF)
• Class's Chorale Variations
• Review Sheet for Test II
• Test II (password protected)

• Handout on Secondary Functions
• Modulation Analysis Hints (step-by-step instructions)
• Lecture on Common-Chord Modulation to Close Keys (DM to em)
• Handout on Finding Pivot Chords (step-by-step instructions)
• Lecture on Modulation with Intermediate Keys (CM to EbM)
• Examples of Imitative Counterpoint; Sample Species Analysis Handout
• Imitative Counterpoint Homework Sheet (PDF), Imitative Counterpoint Homework Sheet (Finale)
• Imitative-Counterpoint Error-detection Exercises (PDF); Grading Rubric IC IC Tutorial; IC Self-Test Answers; and WebCT exercises
• Handout on Species Concepts (CF, 1st-5th species, imitative)
• Review Sheet for Test III
• Practice Test III
• Test III (password protected)

• Artsong Composition Project Description
• Artsong Composition Grading Sheet
• Artsong Composition Examples (step-by-step procedures)
• Artsong Performance List
• Class's Artsongs
• Summary of Tonal Harmony
• Written-Theory Final-Exam Review Sheet
• Final Exam (password protected)

• See the reserve list for this course at the library.
• WebCT (for species error detection)
• Documents for Musicianship II (MUT113)
• Music-Theory/Musicianship Curriculum
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