General Music Unit 2
General Music Unit 2
Intermediate Theory
Scales
- All 12 major scales
- Introduction to minor scales
- All 12 key signatures
Intervals
- All intervals within the octave
Harmony
- All major and minor triads
- Seventh Chords
- Chord progressions
- V I relationship
- Diatonic chords
- Tonic, dominant, subdominant
- Circle of fifths
- Blues form
- I vi ii V progression (and typical substitutions)
- Introduction to roman numeral analysis
Intermediate Reading and Writing Music
Rhythm
- Eighth notes, triplets, sixteenth notes, equivalent rests
- Exercise: https://www.musictheory.net/exercises
Pitch
- Grand Staff
- Exercise: have students make their own acronyms for lines and spaces in bass clef.
Have students import the midi file from a melody with left hand accompaniment then learn to perform it based on the score. (have some go to examples that are easy) Use https://www.noteflight.com to visualize.
- Ledger lines
- Accidentals Intermediate dynamic and expression markings
Ear Training
- Unisons, octaves, thirds, fifths
- High vs low Online game https://www.musictheory.net
Resources
Music and Science:
Theory Resources:
Notation Resources:
Online Digital Audio Workstations (DAW):