Etheory LIVE Curriculum Document

Course I Curriculum

At the completion of each Lesson, the student will be able to …

LESSON understand the following sing and/or play on demonstrate aural … … … concepts: the keyboard: skills: 1 ● Tonal and non­tonal music ● Pitches in bass and ● Identify tonal and ● Major and minor modes treble clefs non­tonal music ● Origins and purpose of musical ● Half and whole steps ● Identify major and notation in bass and treble minor modes ● Pitch and pitch class clefs ● Identify the relative ● Notation in bass and treble clefs ● Short melodic register of notes ● Chromatic alterations and patterns in bass and ● Identify pitches given a enharmonic spelling treble clefs starting note ● Identify intervals in a series as steps or leaps ● Patterns and names of white and ● Notate short melodic black keys on the piano ​ ​ fragments ● Whole steps and half steps on the piano (diatonic and chromatic) 2 ● Basic notation (identify and ● Pulse and rhythms in ● Identify steps, thirds or write), including: simple and compound larger interval o note head size and meter ● Identify consonant and placement ● Generic intervals dissonant intervals o stems, flags, beams ● Major scales ● Identify the relative o whole, half, quarter, beginning on various register of intervals eighth, sixteenth and scale degrees ● Identify pitches given a dotted notes and rests ● Melodic patterns in starting note o chromatic alterations major tonality ● Identify intervals in a ● Rhythmic durations and series as steps or leaps relationships ● Take dictation of short ● Grouping of beats in music, melodic fragments including: o accent o strong and weak beats o measure, measure line o meter ● Tempo o Tempo indications o Tempo modifiers ● Space in music o density in music o intervals (generic, specific, melodic, harmonic, compound) ● Consonance and dissonance

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● Pitch collections o diatonic collections o half step – whole step o major scale o scale degree numbers and names 3 ● Chromatic scale ● Two note melodic ● Detect consonance vs. ● Intervallic inversions patterns dissonance ● Specific vs. generic intervals ● Enharmonic

● Compound intervals equivalents

● Major pitch collections ● Match (sing) pitches ● Transpositions ● Play, tap and speak ● Tetrachord rhythms

● Tetrachordal fingerings ● Key signatures ● Circle of fifths ● Chromatic v. diatonic half step ● Enharmonicism ● Role of context in consonance/dissonance 4 ● Identification and notation of ● Minor scales ● Identify intervals, specific intervals beginning on various major and minor ● Interval quality scale degrees modes, minor melodic ● Consonant and dissonant ● Short melodic patterns intervals patterns in minor ● Dictation of short ● Perfect and imperfect intervals tonality minor melodic ● Natural, harmonic, and melodic ● Melodic and fragments minor modes harmonic intervals ● Dictation of rhythmic ● Relative and parallel key ● Sight sing melodic patterns relationships fragments ● Combining melodic and rhythmic singing ● Combining playing and singing ● Play, tap and speak dotted rhythms ● Double and halve rhythms 5 ● Inversion of specific intervals ● Scale patterns with ● Identify dotted and ● Principles of meter, accent, and scale degrees more complex rhythmic rhythm ● Sing longer melodies patterns ● Principles of beat division in ● Play one voice while ● Identify/notate two meter types and the meter singing the other and three pitch signature ● Transpose (singing) intervals ● Conducting patterns in simple using scale degrees ● Identify and correct meters ● Tap the rhythm while mistakes in dictation singing the melody ● Rhythmic dictation in simple meter ● Dictation in major and minor modes 6 ● Components and characteristics ● Procedures and ● Procedures and of melody strategies for more strategies for more complex sight singing complex melodic and ● Sight singing and rhythmic dictation conducting together ● Identify and notate pitch paradigms

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● Play and transpose ● Melodic dictation melodic fragments ● Intervals above a bass line ● Sing and play melodic lines together ● Clap/tap two rhythmic examples together 7 ● Compound meter ● Conduct and say ● Identify complex ● Conducting patterns in complex rhythms rhythms compound meter ● Play two­part ● Identify and notate ● Distinguishing between simple rhythms intervals and compound meters ● Play melodic and ● Fluency reading rhythms rhythmic excerpts on ● Augmented and diminished the keyboard intervals ● Sing one voice to a ● Transforming major and minor recorded intervals using chromatic accompaniment voice alterations 8 ● First­Species Counterpoint ● Play intervals above a ● Dictation: counterpoint ● Conjunct Motion bass line ● Disjunct Motion ● Play two part ● Climax excerpts ● Counterpoint ● Play one voice and ● Cantus Firmus sing other voice

● Similar Motion ● Contrary Motion ● Parallel Motion ● Clausula Vera

nd 9 ● Introduction to 2 ​ species ● Play two voice ● Identify melodic ​ counterpoint excerpts fragments nd ● Consonance in 2 ​ species ● Play one voice and ● Dictation: missing ​ counterpoint sing the other voice voices in counterpoint ● Introduction to solfege ● Sing melodic fragments, identify key and mode ● Sing melodies with scale degree numbers 10 ● Guidelines for writing 2nd ● Play and sing second ● Dictation of 1:1 ​ species counterpoint species counterpoint ● Oblique motion ● Sight sing with scale ● Dictation of 2:1 ● Passing tones degree numbers counterpoint ● Dynamics while conducting 11 ● Slurs, ties, and phrase markings ● Say and clap rhythms ● Triplets and duplets with ties ● Syncopation and hemiola ● Say and clap mixed ● Asymmetrical meters triple and duple ● Combining major and minor rhythms thirds to create triads ● Say and clap rhythms ● Augmented and diminished while conducting triads ● Say and clap two­part ● Triad functions within a key rhythm examples

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● Roman numerals ● Sing and conduct melodies ● Say and clap two part rhythms in asymmetrical meters ● Play closed position triads ● Sing root position triads ● Sing triads from given scale degrees ● Play two­part melodies ● Play diatonic triads

12 ● Triad inversions ● Sing triads by ● Listen and complete reinterpreting missing notes in ● Build and voice triads starting note sounding triads ● Play and sing the ● Notating closed and missing note of a open triads ● Voicing/Spacing given triad ● Doubling ● Play triads in ● Figured bass keyboard style; ● Triad analyzation using figured re­voice triads bass symbols 13 ● Diatonic triads in minor mode ● Play and sing ● Melodic dictation ● Figured bass –chromaticism counterpoint, ● Two­voice dictation ● Embellishment of melodies realizing figured bass ● Incomplete Neighbor Tone ● Play and transpose ● Chromatic Passing Tone triads ● Accented Passing Tone ● Sing scale degree ● Harmonic Rhythm patterns in various keys ● Sing and conduct melodies th th 14 ● Recognize/spell 7 ​ chords ● Play 7 ​ chords/add ● Identify missing pitch ​th ​ th ● Figured bass for 7 ​ chords missing note (7 )​ ​ ​ th ● Sing and add scale ● Re­ordering 7 ​ chords ​ degrees ● Melodic dictation

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