Cal Poly Pomona Music Theory III
MU122 Spring 2018
Syllabi:
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Week 1: Review of MU121 final exam. Secondary Dominant chords with standard resolutions and deceptive resolutions. Modal borrowing (aka modal mixture, modal interchange)
Kostka: read Chapter 16 (secondary dominant chords)
In-class Analysis: "Take Me Out To The Ball Game" "America" "Desperado" "Blackbird"
Vocabulary: chromaticism
tonicization
Youtube videos:
modal interchange
secondary dominants
Jacob Collier explains harmony
Kostka: read Chapter 16 (secondary dominant chords)
In-class Analysis: "Take Me Out To The Ball Game" "America" "Desperado" "Blackbird"
Vocabulary: chromaticism
tonicization
Youtube videos:
modal interchange
secondary dominants
Jacob Collier explains harmony
Week 2: secondary dominants and modal borrowing continued. Secondary leading-tone 7th chords.
Kostka: read Chapter 17 (secondary leading-tone 7th chords)
In-class analysis: Bach Prelude in C major from the Well-Tempered Clavier book 1
Homework: Identifying secondary dominants worksheets from class packet. Due Friday week 2.
Youtube video:
Bach C major prelude harmonic analysis
Kostka: read Chapter 17 (secondary leading-tone 7th chords)
In-class analysis: Bach Prelude in C major from the Well-Tempered Clavier book 1
Homework: Identifying secondary dominants worksheets from class packet. Due Friday week 2.
Youtube video:
Bach C major prelude harmonic analysis
Week 3: secondary leading tone chords continued. Modes of the major scale
Kostka: pgs. 454-455
In-class analysis: selected popular, musicals, and classical repertoire
Musicianship quiz: major and minor triad identification (root position and inversions)
Homework: Modes worksheet (3 pages). Due Monday week 4.
Week 4: Common chord modulations. Standard blues form.
Kostka: read chapter 18
In-class analysis: "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", Schubert lieder excerpts, Bach chorale excerpts
Musicianship quiz: sing all the modes of the major scale with correct sollfege. Quiz Friday of week 4.
Kostka: read chapter 18
In-class analysis: "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", Schubert lieder excerpts, Bach chorale excerpts
Musicianship quiz: sing all the modes of the major scale with correct sollfege. Quiz Friday of week 4.
Week 5: More modulatory techniques: altered chord modulations, direct modulations, common-tone modulations
Kostka: read chapter 19
In-class analysis: Bach Sarabande form the Violin Partita in b minor
Homework: Analysis of "Dido's Lament". Due Friday of week 5.
Kostka: read chapter 19
In-class analysis: Bach Sarabande form the Violin Partita in b minor
Homework: Analysis of "Dido's Lament". Due Friday of week 5.
Week 6: Review for Midterm
Midterm Friday of Week 6
Musicianship: prepared singing test. Modal melodies handout. Monday week 7.
Midterm Friday of Week 6
Musicianship: prepared singing test. Modal melodies handout. Monday week 7.
Week 7: Jazz harmonies, ii7 V7 Imaj7 progressions, 9th, 11th, 13th chords, altered chords (b5, #9, etc..)
In class analysis: "How High the Moon", "Black Orpheus"
Homework: Mozart string quintet analysis. Due Monday of week 8.
Musicianship: Interval test Friday week 8
In class analysis: "How High the Moon", "Black Orpheus"
Homework: Mozart string quintet analysis. Due Monday of week 8.
Musicianship: Interval test Friday week 8
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Week 8: Jazz and pop song analysis, ii V, I progressions, chord substitutions, tri-tone substitution, ii-V substitution, back-cycling, motivic manipulations (extension, inversion, transposition, etc.)
In class analysis: "Penny Lane" "Ornithology"
In class analysis: "Penny Lane" "Ornithology"
Week 9: Jazz song analysis continued. Minor blues form (traditional and jazz settings). Upper leading-tone notes and chords.
In-class analysis: "All Blues" by Miles Davis "Footprints" "A Foggy Day"
Homework: Jazz song analysis (in-class "A Foggy Day"). Due Friday week 9
In-class analysis: "All Blues" by Miles Davis "Footprints" "A Foggy Day"
Homework: Jazz song analysis (in-class "A Foggy Day"). Due Friday week 9
Week 10: no class Monday (Memorial Day). Extra-credit song analysis presentations. Review for Final.
