Required Text for Lecture
Aldwell, Edward, and Carl Schachter. Harmony and Voice Leading. 3rd ed. Orlando, FL: Harcourt Brace, 2002. ISBN: 9780155062429. (Listed below as A+S.)
Various Composers. Five Centuries of Choral Music for Mixed Voices. Vol. 1. New York, NY: G. Schirmer, 1963.
| LEC # | TOPICS | READINGS |
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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) |