Theory II

MWF 9:00-9:50AM, Room 118

Lab TR 9:20-10:40AM, Room 118

Instructor:  Vicky Boucher  Room 122

Office hours posted on office door

E-mail:  boucher@tarleton.edu

Phone:  Ext. 9238

Assignment Notes:

  1. I will not accept assignments done in ink.

  2. Please do not use miniscule notes or printing. 

  3. Be prepared to write in your theory workbook and ear-training book.  These books are not meant to be resold.   I will not accept assignments from these books which are copied onto staff paper.

  4. If something is not clear to you, ASK ME.  My schedule is on my door (122) or use the email hyperlink at the bottom of the page.

                

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Week 1

Jan. 14-18

 

Review Final Exam from Theory I

 

Chapter 8

Three kinds of 1st inversion triads

Triads in 1st Inversion

Triads in 2nd Inversion

2nd Inversion Chords

We try harder!

 

 

Quick Facts Sheet

Print this to keep in your notebook

 

Solfege Daily Routine

Assignments due:

Tue/Jan 15

Place a link to this page on your desktop
On the top of this page, File - Send - Shortcut to desktop
 

Tue/Jan 15

Print 5 sheets of staff paper from link above
 

Tue/Jan 15

WebCT setup

  1. Log on to WebCT6

  2. Choose your course

  3. Click “My Settings” in the upper right portion of the screen.

  4. Select “My profile” tab and edit the profile to include the email address you actually check.

  5. Click Save.

  6. Now click on “My Tool Option” tab and scroll to the Mail portion of the screen.

  7. Select the box “Forward all mail messages to the e-mail address in my profile.” 

  8. Click Save.

Tue/Jan 15

CPS setup

 Clickers

Class Key: G36883A942

 

Thu/Jan 17

Demonstrate song using handsigns:  Have major AND minor melodies prepared

 

Fri/Jan 18

Assignment 1

Workbook p. 62-63 (1/4 point each)

 

 

Week 2

Jan. 21-25

No class on Monday for MLK day

 

Chapter 9

 

No class on Thursday

 

Chapter 10

 

Phrases and cadences

Phrases and cadences II

Flash Lessons

 

 

Perfect Authentic Cadence

PAC with Cadential 6/4 Ex.#1

PAC with Cadential 6/4 Ex.#2

Imperfect Authentic Cadence

Half Cadence

Plagal Cadence Ex.#1

Plagal Cadence Ex. 2

Deceptive Cadence

 

More examples

 

Cadences

Musical Excerpts

 

Assignments due:

Fri/Jan 25

Assignment 2

Workbook p. 71-73 (1/3 point each)

 

Fri/Jan 25

Computer Lab #1

Note:  You will have to re-enter your password information in Aurelia and join the class "Theory II" to access the material.  Use your real name as log-in because reports will be printed according to log-in name.

Assignment deadline is 5pm.

 

Week 3

Jan. 28-Feb1

 

Chapter 10 cont.

Workbook p. 83 analysis

 

Cadence Exercise

Cadence Worksheet

Assignments due:

Wed/Jan 30

Assignment 3

Workbook p. 79, 80, 81 (#2 only)

 

Wed/Jan 30

Quiz #1

Cadences, Nonchord Tones, Inversions

 

Fri/Feb 1

Computer Lab #2

Assignment deadline is 5pm.

 

 

Cadence assignment

Bring one sheet of music from your performance group or private lesson (accompaniment part if necessary) with all cadences marked.

 

 

Week 4

Feb 4-Feb. 8

 

Chapter 13

 

Seventh chords

Excerpts in real music

 

Intervals Aural Recognition

Illustrated in real music

 

No class on Friday

Assignments due:

Thurs/Feb 7

SS & ET Quiz #1

 

 

Wed/Feb 6

Assignment 4

Workbook p. 99-101

 

Fri/Feb 8

Computer Lab #3

Assignment deadline is 5pm. 

 

 

 

Week 5

Feb. 11-15

Chapter 14

 

Practice p. 224 text (B at seat, A at board)

& p. 123 Workbook (board)

No class on Thursday or Friday

because of TMEA

 

Assignments due:

Wed/Feb 13

Assignment 5

Workbook p. 117, 121

 

   

Week 6

Feb. 18-22

Chapter 15

 

 

Assignments due:

Fri/Feb 22

Assignment 6

Workbook p. 125-126

 

   

Fri/Feb 22

Computer Lab #4

Assignment deadline is 5pm. 

   

 

Week 7

Feb. 25-29

Chord keyboard, major

 

Chord keyboard, minor

 

Chords progression

 

End of the week is MIDTERM!

Assignments due:

   

Fri/Feb 29

Midterm Exam

 

 

Computer Lab #5

Assignment deadline is 5pm.  

 

 

Week 8

Mar 3-7

Chapter 16

Secondary dominants p. 246

Self-test p. 249 (board)

 

Secondary dominants

Aural recognition in real music

 

Practice identifying secondary dominants

Practice constructing secondary dominants

 

Other secondary functions

 

Practice identifying secondary leading tone chords

Practice constructing secondary leading tone chords

 

Workbook p. 143 and p. 157 (B only)

 

Assignments due:

Thu/Mar 6

SS & ET Quiz #2

 

   

Fri/Mar 7

Computer Lab #6

Assignment deadline is 5pm. 

Fri/Mar 7

Assignment 7

Workbook p. 135, 136, 149, 150

 

Week 9

Mar. 10-14

Chapter 17

Diatonic modulation

Modulation (Teoria)

 

Poems

Assignments due:

Tue/Mar 11

Picture (printed out) of Chromatic solfege hand signs

Include the URL address if accessed online

 

Fri/Mar 14

Assignment #8

Workbook p. 163-165, 171

 
  

Computer Lab #7

Assignment deadline is 5pm. 

 

 

SPRING BREAK

 

Week 10

Mar. 24-28

Chapter 18

Modulations (continued)

 

 

 

Modulation Types Explained

Modulation to V

Determining the type of Modulation

 

Workbook p. 173

 

Assignments due:

Wed/Mar 26

Choose poem for composition

Copy to a Word document and bring to class

 

Fri/Mar 28

Assignment #9

Workbook p. 179-181

 

Fri/Mar 28

Computer Lab #8

Assignment deadline is 5pm. 

   

 

Week 11

Mar. 31-Apr 4

Chapter 19

 

Assignments due:

Wed/Apr 2

Composition melody due

Include the lyrics (If strophic, one verse will suffice)

 

Fri/Apr 4

Assignment #10

Workbook p. 183

 

Fri/Apr 4

Computer Lab #9

Assignment deadline is 5pm. 

   

 

Week 12

Apr. 7-11

Assignments due:

Wed/Apr 9

Composition in 4 parts first draft due

 

Thu/Apr 10

SS & ET Quiz #3

 

   

 

Week 13

Apr. 14-18

 

 

Assignments due:

Fri/ Apr 18

Composition due

 

Fri/Apr 18

Computer Lab #10

Assignment deadline is 5pm. 

   

 

Week 14

Apr. 21-25

Assignments due:

  
 

Week 15

Apr. 28-30

 

Review for final exam

Assignments due:

Tue/Apr 29

SS & ET Quiz #4

 

   
 

Wednesday, April 30 last class day

 

Final Exam:  Monday, May 5, 3:00pm

 

 
 

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