Pre-Week 1 Lesson Week: August 17-19, 2016 Overview of AP Music Theory Course AP Music Theory Pre-Assessment (Aural & Non-Aural) Overview of AP Music Theory Course, overview of scope and sequence of AP Music Theory course through a 2-day pre-assessment (aural & non-aural) Lecture activity, AP Music Theory course through a 2-day pre-assessment (aural & non-aural)
Week 1 Lesson Week: August 22 nd - 26 th, 2016 Overview of AP Music Theory Course Pitch and Pitch Class Introduction to Solfege/Simple Meter Introduction to pitch, the piano keyboard, reading pitches from a score, dynamic markings. Letter names, pitch classes and pitches, white keys, black keys: flats and sharps, enharmonic equivalents, half steps and whole steps, double flats and sharps, staff notation, treble clef, bass clef, c-clefs, naming registers, ledger lines, writing pitches on a score. Simple meters, the beat and its division into two parts. Work through Music for Sight-Singing, Ch. 1.
Week 2 Lesson Week: August 29 th September 2 nd, 2016 Beat, Meter, and Rhythm: Simple Meters Introduction to Solfege/Simple Meter Dividing musical time, Rhythmic notation for simple meters, Counting rhythms in simple meters, beats other than the quarter note, implications for performance: metric hierarchy. Beat/beat subdivision/meter, conducting patterns, tempo, rhythm and meter, rhythmic values, meter signatures, beat subdivisions, stems/flags/beaming, counting rests and dots, slurs and ties, syncopation, hemiola, and anacrusis notation. Simple meters, the beat and its division into two parts. Work through Music for Sight-Singing, Ch. 1.
Week 3 Lesson Week: September 5 th 9 th, 2016 Pitch Collections, Scales, and Major Keys Scale Line Melodies/Simple Meter Chromatic and diatonic collections, Scales: Ordered pitch class collections, Major Keys, the major pentatonic scale, Implications for performance. Scale Degrees, Spelling major scales, Spelling chromatic scales, Key signatures, The circle of fifths, Identifying a key from a key signature, Writing key signatures, Identifying the key of a piece, Scale-degree names. Work through Music for Sight-Singing, Ch. 1.
Week 4 Lesson Week: September 12 th 16 th, 2016 Pitch Collections, Scales, and Major Keys contd. Scale Line Melodies/Simple Meter contd. Chromatic and diatonic collections, Scales: Ordered pitch class collections, Major Keys, the major pentatonic scale, Implications for performance. Scale Degrees, Spelling major scales, Spelling chromatic scales, Key signatures, The circle of fifths, Identifying a key from a key signature, Writing key signatures, Identifying the key of a piece, Scale-degree names. Work through Music for Sight-Singing, Ch. 2.
Week 5 Lesson Week: September 19 th 23 rd, 2016 Beat, Meter, and Rhythm: Compound Meters Intervals from the Tonic Triad, Major Keys/Simple Meter Hearing compound meters, Meter signatures, Rhythmic notation in compound meters, Syncopation, Mixing beat divisions, Hemiola, Metrical accent and implication The dotted-quarter beat unit, Subdividing the beat, Beat units other than the dotted quarter, triplets, duplets/quadruplets and poly Work through Music for Sight-Singing, Ch. 3.
Week 6 Lesson Week: September 26 th 30 th, 2016 Minor Keys and Diatonic Modes Intervals from the Tonic Triad, Major Keys/Simple Meter Parallel keys: Shared tonic, Relative keys, Variability in the minor scale, Scales degrees in minor, The minor pentatonic scale, Modes of the diatonic collection. Relative minor: Shared key signatures, Finding the relative minor key, Finding the relative major key, Identifying the key of a musical passage, The forms of minor, Hearing minor scale types, Writing major scales, The relative identification of modes, The parallel identification of modes, Spelling modal scales, Twentieth-century and contemporary modal practice. Work through Music for Sight-Singing, Ch. 3.
Week 7 Lesson Week: October 3 rd 7 th, 2016 Intervals Intervals from the Tonic Triad, Major Keys/Compound Meter Combining pitches, Interval quality, Consonant and dissonant intervals. Interval size, Melodic and harmonic intervals, Major/minor/perfect intervals, Inverting intervals, Smaller intervals seconds/thirds/fourths, Larger intervals Fifths/sixths/sevenths, Semitones and interval size, Augmented and diminished intervals, Enharmonically equivalent intervals, Interval classes, Analyzing intervals in music. Work through Music for Sight-Singing, Ch. 4.
Week 8 Lesson Week: Oct 10 th 14 th, 2016 Triads Intervals from the Tonic Triad, Major Keys/Compound Meter Chords and triads, Spelling triads, Scale-degree triads in a tonal context, Figured bass. Triads above a scale, Triad qualities in major keys, Triad qualities in minor keys, Spelling scale-degree triads from C major, Spelling isolated triads by interval, Spelling isolated triads by key signature, roman numerals for scale-degree triads, Triad inversion, Triads in popular music notation. Work through Music for Sight-Singing, Ch. 4.