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Textbook Chapters

There are no textbooks assigned.

Topics come from Alfred’s Music Theory and Benward/Saker Music Theory in Practice

Major Skills

Identifying the treble, bass, and alto clefs, developing fluency reading notation, identifying intervals visually and aurally, recognizing all major scales

Matching key signatures to major scales, defining each major key signature, rhythmic accuracy, observing and executing tempos, dynamics and other markings

Identifying common chords in all major keys, defining melody, composing melodies, recognizing and executing chord progressions found in chorales

Identifying the important aspects of harmony and counterpoint

Incorporating all accumulated knowledge to arrange a piece of music

Themes 

How Music is Notated

How Music is Notated

How Melodies are Formed

How Music is Harmonized

How Music is Arranged

Topics

Tone

Pitch

Staves

Clefs

Intervals

Scales

Key Signatures

Note Value

Time Signatures

Tempo

Dynamics

Markings

Melody

Chords

Chord Progressions

Form

Harmony

Counterpoint

Arranging

Arranging

Coached Projects

Students will compose and perform a rhythm composition.

Students will compose and perform a melody.

Students will arrange a musical piece for string quartet.

 Seminars 

The Aesthetic Value of Music

Inside the Mind of a Composer

What Makes Music Extraordinary

What Makes a Musician