Calendar

This course has two weekly labs, a one-hour sight-singing lab and a one-hour piano lab, which are not listed within the course calendar.


LEC # TOPICS KEY DATES
Unit One: Review of Fundamentals
1 Welcome-Ritual Reading of the Syllabus-Overview

Review of Chord Construction, Figured Bass, and Part-Writing
2 Review of Four-part Writing (cont.)

Assignment 1 (Long Exercise in Four-part Writing)

Practice Quiz (C, a, G, e, F, d)
3 Review of Two-part Counterpoint

Assignment 2 (Short Exercise in Four-part Writing)

Quiz 1 (C, a, G, e, F, d)
4 Review of Diatonic Harmony, Cadences, Binary Form

Assignment 3 (Long Exercise in Two-part Writing)
5 Review of Melodic Figuration

Assignment 4 (Short Exercise in Harmony and Voice-Leading)

Quiz 2 (D, b, Bb, g)
Report demo 1
6 Review of Rhythmic Figuration

Assignment 5 (Long Exercise in Harmony and Voice-Leading)
Report demo 2
7 Review of Diatonic Modulation

Assignment 6 (Short Exercise in Harmony and Voice-Leading)

Quiz 3 (A, f#, Eb, c)
Report demo 3
8 Test 1 (Diatonic Voice-Leading, Harmony, and Figuration)
Unit Two: Elementary Chromatic Harmony
9 Introduction to Leading-Tone Seventh Chords

Assignment 7 (Analytic Exercise)

Quiz 4 (E, c#, Ab, f)
Reports on Mozart, "Ah, vous dirai-je Maman" variations
10 Applied Leading-tone Seventh Chords Complete draft of theme

Reports on Mozart, "Ah, vous dirai-je Maman" variations
11 Workshop Discussion of Theme Drafts

Introduction to the Flat Supertonic (Neapolitan)

Assignment 8 (viio7 and applied viio7)

Quiz 5 (viio7 in all Keys)
Reports on Haydn, Arietta in Eb variations
12 Introduction to Chords of the Augmented Sixth Revised draft of theme

Reports on Haydn, Arietta in Eb variations
13 Workshop Discussion of Revised Themes

Introduction to Mode Mixture

Assignment 9 (Flat Supertonic and Chords of the Augmented Sixth)

Quiz 6 (ii6, iio6, and bII6 , in all Keys)
Reports on Haydn, Arietta in Eb variations
14 Complete Draft of Variation(s), Featuring Melodic Figuration Reports on Mozart, "Dieu d'Amour" variations
15 Workshop Discussion of Variations Featuring Melodic Figuration

Assignment 10 (Mode Mixture)

Quiz 7 (vi, [b]VI, and Chords of the Augmented Sixth, in all Keys)
Reports on Mozart, "Dieu d'Amour" variations
16 Test 2 (Elementary Chromatic Harmony)
Unit Three: Chromatic Modulation
17 Workshop Discussion of Variations Featuring Melodic Figuration

Assignment 11 (Chromatic Harmony)

Quiz 8 (A, Ab, a, Bb, b, Including Chromatic Harmony)
Reports on Beethoven, "God save the King" variations
18 Complete Draft of Variation(s), Featuring Rhythmic Figuration Reports on Beethoven, "God save the King" variations
19 Workshop Discussion of Variations Featuring Rhythmic Figuration

Assignment 12 (Chromatic Harmony)

Quiz 9 (C, c, c#, D, d, Including Chromatic Harmony)
Reports on Haydn, Andante in f variations
20 Complete Draft of Variation(s), in the Parallel Mode
21 Workshop Discussion of Variations in the Parallel Mode

Assignment 13 (Chromatic Modulation)
Reports on Haydn, Andante in f variations

Deadline for final projects after 3 days
22 Assignment 14 (Chromatic Modulation) Reports on Beethoven, "Rule, Brittania" variations
23 Assignment 15 (Chromatic Modulation)

Quiz 10 (E, Eb, e, F, f, f#, G, g)
Reports on Beethoven, "Rule, Brittania" variations
24 Performances of Final Projects

Assignment 16 (Chromatic Harmony)
25 Performances of Final Projects (cont.)