Unit 5

Unit 5, Mar. 29-Apr. 11

Introduction to Unit 5

Unit Objectives

(U5.1) Compose melodic lines that match musical style and imitate supplied melodies. (G2.c, G3, G4.b; O1, O4)
(U5.2) Demonstrate mastery of major key signatures and major scales. (G2.c; O2)

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Center for the Arts Building

Course Materials (Mar. 29)

REVIEW LECTURE (Make sure you understand these terms): A Few Music Terms (10 min.) player (cc, searchable) | mp4 | Windows Media (cc) | transcript

LECTURE: MuseScore Composition 2A Demonstration (13 min.) player (cc, searchable) | mp4 | wmv (cc) | Transcript

chord chart

LECTURE: MuseScore Composition 2B Demonstration (9 min.) player (cc, searchable) | mp4 | wmv (cc) | Transcript

chord chart

Review Quiz for Composition Assignments. This quiz may be taken as many times as you like. Quizzes do not count towards your course grade. Quiz link

Help improve the course: Use this anonymous form to suggest improvements to Dr. Ewell. Form link

Assignments (Apr. 4)

Composition 1 (U5.1)

Files for Composition 1 (Right click to download)

Group 1 project (BbM) | chord chart

Group 2 project (DM) | chord chart

Group 3 project (DM) | chord chart

Group 4 project (BbM) | chord chart

Group 5 project (BbM) | chord chart

Provide the saxophone melody in measures 5-8 and 12 to the end. The saxophone part will sound best if kept within the treble staff although you may go above it briefly. Use single notes only not two notes at the same time. Don't go below E4. Save the composition with the proper label: LastnameFirstname_Comp1, for example: “EwellTerry_Comp1.mscz” Place in your personal Dropbox folder.

What Dropbox group am I in? Which is my group and personal folder? link

Viewing Dr. Ewell's comments on your papers

Course Materials (Apr. 5)

LECTURE: How Music Makes Sense, Part 2 (8 min.) Include video notes in Journal 8.
player (cc, searchable) | mp4 | transcript

Song form in Popular Music

Thirty-Two Bar Form

GUEST LECTURE: Form in Music mp4 | wmv

Scale Degrees. Music Fundamentals 1, Chapter 9.

Learning Major and Minor Keys and Scales. Music Fundamentals 3, Chapter 3.

LECTURE: Minor scales (6 min.)
player (cc, searchable) | mp4 | wmv (cc) | transcript | Graphics

Practice (use major and minor): Scales (Teoria website)

Practice: Key Signatures Treble Clef (Teoria website)

REVIEW LECTURE: Memorizing and Recognizing Major Scales (3 1/2 min.) player (cc and searchable) | mp4 | wmv (cc) | transcript

Quizzes for Test 3

Quiz Review (U4.3) Idenitify the wrong note in the scale. This quiz may be taken as many times as you like. There are five versions. Quizzes do not count towards your course grade. Quiz link

Review Quiz Quiz Major Key Signatures (U5.2) You may take quizzes as many times as you like (there are three versions). These are not for grades.

Review Quiz Quiz Major Scales (U5.2) You may take quizzes as many times as you like. These are not for grades.

Review Quiz for Test 3. This quiz may be taken as many times as you like. There are two versions. Quizzes do not count towards your course grade. Quiz link

Assignments (Apr. 11)

Journal 8 Use this template.

Test 3 (U5.2)

A test that examines your knowledge of major scales and key signatures. This test has 20 questions, timed at 15 minutes. You may submit this test only once--the first submission will count for your grade.

Test 3 link

REVIEW LECTURE: Save Test or Exam Results (2 min.) into your Dropbox folder. player | mp4 | wmv | webpage

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