Required Text for Lecture
Aldwell, Edward, and Carl Schachter. Harmony and Voice Leading. 3rd ed. Orlando, FL: Harcourt Brace, 2002. ISBN: 0155062425. (Listed below as A+S.)
Various Composers. Five Centuries of Choral Music for Mixed Voices. Vol. 1. New York, NY: G. Schirmer, 1963.
Readings
| LEC # |
TOPICS |
READINGS |
| 1 |
Ritual Reading of the Syllabus, Pre-test, Overview |
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| 2 |
Keys, Scales, Modes, Intervals
Assignment 1 |
A+S. Chapters 1 and 2, skip pp. 25-26. |
| 3 |
Rhythm and Meter
Triads and Seventh Chords
Assignment 2
Practice Quiz (C Major, a Minor) |
A+S. Chapters 3 and 4. |
| 4 |
Procedures of Four-part Writing
Assignment 3
Quiz 1 (G Major, e Minor) |
A+S. Chapter 5. |
| 5 |
Rules for Two-part Counterpoint
Assignment 4 |
Rules for Two-part Counterpoint (distributed in lecture 4) |
| 6 |
Root-position Tonic and Dominant
Assignment 5
Quiz 2 (F Major, d Minor) |
A+S. Chapter 6. |
| 7 |
First-inversion Tonic, Dominant, Leading-tone Triads
Assignment 6
Quiz 3 (D Major, b Minor) |
A+S. Chapter 7. |
| 8 |
Inversions of the Dominant Seventh
Assignment 7 |
A+S. Chapter 8. |
| 9 |
Preparing the Dominant, via ^4 in the Bass
Assignment 8
Quiz 4 (B-flat Major, g Minor) |
A+S. Chapter 9. |
| 10 |
The Cadential Six-four
Assignment 9 |
A+S. Chapter 10. |
| 11 |
Assignment 10
Quiz 5 (A Major, f-sharp Minor) |
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| 12 |
Assignment 11 |
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| 13 |
Midterm Exam (In class) |
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| 14 |
Assignment 12 |
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| 15 |
Melodic Figuration
Assignment 13 |
A+S. Chapter 20. |
| 16 |
Rhythmic Figuration
Assignment 14
Quiz 6 (E-flat Major, c Minor) |
A+S. Chapter 21, pp. 348-365. |
| 17 |
Rhythmic Figuration (cont.)
Assignment 15 |
A+S. Chapter 21, pp. 365-371. |
| 18 |
Subdominant and Submediant Triads
Assignment 16
Quiz 7 (E Major, c-sharp Minor) |
A+S. Chapters 11 and 13. |
| 19 |
Supertonic and Subdominant Seventh Chords
Quiz 8 (A-flat Major, f Minor) |
A+S. Chapter 12. |
| 20 |
Applied Dominants, a.k.a. Secondary Dominants
Assignment 17 |
A+S. Chapter 25. |
| 21 |
The Dominant as a Key Area
Assignment 18
Quiz 9 (B Major, g-sharp Minor) |
A+S. Chapter 14. |
| 22 |
Diatonic Modulation (only Modulatory Techniques)
Assignment 19 |
A+S. Chapter 26, pp. 448-454 only "Modulatory Techniques." |
| 23 |
Quiz 10 (D-flat Major, b-flat Minor) |
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| 24 |
Assignment 20
Evaluations, Summation, Post-test |
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| 25 |
Performances of Final Projects (In class) |
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