Fall 2021 - Level 4 Music Theory and Ear Training: November 2020

Friday, November 27, 2020

Adam's Second Mini lesson

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LbiXNvjOyEszbOlaDj07-GKzbRkPvsh6ceZ2QC5CsQs/edit?usp=drivesdk

Adam's First Mini Lesson

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jzjOGxQdvuzCvwd8oPkPQd3eQUF6SFUkZvQs0-b7XgE/edit?usp=drivesdk

Thursday, November 26, 2020

Lesson 1 and 2

https://youtu.be/4N8sefmq5j4
https://youtu.be/s8u_eKx1eyI

Monday, November 23, 2020

Dance of the Crows - Kaitlyn Crow

composition wood

https://flat.io/score/5fb5d3caa9d1e55944a0604f-the-adventurer?sharingKey=2027738c3398bba97da2bf68eaf0ad26de5903c06fc92044ffa4c8fbb97c840ff221aa34402224b2346801b4a650eef542b84e6b50eda770f31a7b5630b808c4

Above is the link to my Composition. (I know the parts are a little unbalanced but I didn't know how to get the different parts to balance within this particular app)

Emma Gragan's Mini Lessons #1 and #2

Mini Lesson #1: https://youtu.be/fOfQerVcDik

Mini Lesson #2: https://youtu.be/KOc8nIPoZs8

Here is the link to my audio recording of my composition. Please bear with me, as I wasn't able to ger my saxophone home to play, so I'm working with what I had on hand (flute). (I'm not really that good with flute just yet).

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IT6RKJtruNg8MV1nDj8gx-pgA4ePnEBr/view?usp=drivesdk

Sunday, November 22, 2020

Carmen's Mini Lesson #1

Hi guys, since my blog will not let me post, Kay is letting me post through her account. Here is my first mini lesson :) there are some errors in my voiceover- sorry about those.

https://youtu.be/FKmyV95-iuk

Friday, November 20, 2020

Answer key for practice dictation final (small bonus)

For a small bonus, you may mark in corrections and write a self-assessment for each exercise. This is to be handed in at the dictation exam on Monday.

Music Theory 2 Composition Recital

Our class Composition Recital will take place in Room 326 (the Band Room) on Monday, Nov. 23 at 1:00 PM. So that I can make a program for the recital, please have Program Notes and a Title/Personnel listing to me by 8 AM on Monday. There is an assignment on Sakai.

Program notes: Write a paragraph about your piece. This should be aimed at a GENERAL audience, not necessarily people with musical backgrounds. Imagine your non-musician friends will be in the audience (in fact, go ahead and invite them to be in the audience). Because this is written for a general audience, you shouldn't use technical vocabulary, though you should discuss the music with some level of detail.

Title/personnel listing: Give the proper spelling of your piece, and list all the people who will perform it, along with their instrument or voice type. For example:

Sally O'Malley, clarinet
Joe Schmo, piano

Here are a few examples from previous semesters:

Playful Otters
This duet for Bb clarinet encompasses the playfulness and liveliness of North American River Otters, while the piano mimics the sound of a babbling brook in the distance. The piano and clarinets blend and meld together to create a cute little melody.
–Autumn Mayle

Blooming Apple Blossoms, for Piano
This piece was composed with the inspiration of the Apple Blossom Festival, which is held in Martinsburg, West Virginia. The piece starts slowly and softly to represent the start of the blossoms budding on the trees. As the piece continues the speed picks up slightly till it reaches its peak on a V chord. This peak in the music represents the flowers blooming into beautiful flowers. As the piece comes to a close, the melody descends to represent the last of the flowers blooming so that the entire tree is filled with these gorgeous flowers.
–Anna Gross

Rainforest & Savanna
These pieces are composed with two very different types of biomes from Africa in mind. The rainforest is very densely populated with plant life due to its extreme rainfall. The savanna has less plant life due to its much dryer climate. Despite their differences, these biomes house some of the most exotic and beautiful plants and animals on earth.

These short pieces utilize double lateral strokes, as well as double vertical strokes. Both of these stroke types are used in four-mallet playing, and require both inside and outside rotation of the wrist, as well as the “knocking” motion.

*In this performance, I use two different grips for holding two mallets in one hand. The first grip is Stevens Grip, which is considered an independent grip because the fingers hold the mallets in a way that they do not touch in the hand. The other grip I utilize is Cross Grip and as the name states, the mallets cross in the hand. Both grips are acceptable for any type of four-mallet playing, and both have their pros and cons.
–Robert Moore

You will also upload to Sakai your annotated score (annotated to show the concepts that you're using) and a brief analytical paragraph. This analytical paragraph will use technical language.

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Kaylin’s Composition

Jenkins Composition

Emma Composition

Bolyard - Composition

Bocook Composition

Ramsey - Composition workshop

Lilac Lullaby-Ally Hager

Tanner_Theory Composition

Composition Draft - Kaitlyn Crow

Bocook Mini Lesson 1

Thursday, November 19, 2020

Ally Hager-Mini Lesson 1: Embellishing Tones

Bolyard - Mini Lesson 2

Here is the youtube link to my second mini lesson: https://youtu.be/6Zn7zTbpZvg

Monday, November 16, 2020

Madison Bolyard - Mini Lesson 1

Here is the link to my first mini lesson. https://youtu.be/FU4bgTXdpiI

Composition project, phase 1

(Phase 2 is the complete composition, due Monday, November 23. This will have a separate blog post)

Harmonic Vocabulary

Tonic triad -- root position and first inversion (I and I⁶ in major; i and i⁶ in minor)
Dominant triad -- root position and first inversion (V and V⁶ in major and minor)
Dominant seventh chord -- root position and all inversions (V⁷, V⁶⁵, V⁴³, V⁴² in major and minor)
Subdominant triad -- root position and first inversion (IV and IV⁶ in major; iv and iv⁶ in minor)
Supertonic triad -- root position (ii/major key only) and first inversion (ii⁶ in major, iiº⁶ in minor)
Six-four chords -- Cadential, Neighboring, Passing (and Arpeggiating)
Leading-tone triad -- first inversion only (viiº⁶)

Assignment for Wednesday:

Write a pair of phrases (each one 8 measures long) using the harmonic vocabulary listed above. (It doesn't have to use every one of the chords, but should use at least some of the newer chords.) The phrases should go together.

Use the chords in a manner appropriate for common-practice music.

Choose one of the following keys:

D major
Eb major
E major
F major
G major
Ab major
A major
Bb major
B major
C minor
D minor
E minor
F minor
F# minor
G minor
Bb minor
B minor

Choose duple, triple, or quadruple meter

Harmonic rhythm should be one chord per measure (mostly), may speed up toward the cadence.

Write a bass line and Roman numerals, and sketch out a melodic framework (one or two main notes per chord)

Ultimately you will turn these phrases into a short composition for one or more class members. The pieces will be performed on the last day of class. We will have a composition workshop on Wednesday, where we critique the chord progressions.

Due at 1PM on Friday, November 20. I will make an assignment on Sakai for you to upload it.