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== Objectives ==
* Students will be able to analyze a melodic phrase for shape and intervallic composition
* Students will be familiar with the pentatonic scale and other subsets of the major scale.
* Students will be able to compose a simple piano or guitar accompaniment to a vocal melody.
* Students will be familiar with how melody and harmony influence one another.
* Students will be able to analyze a melody for implied basic diatonic harmony.

== Resources ==


== Class Activities ==
* Discussions and definitions of melodic shape, intervallic composition (steps, skips, leaps)
* Shape and interval analysis of melodies from music of multiple genres and time periods
* Activity where students improvise a short melody given a shape, an intervallic descriptor (“stepwise,” “disjunct,” etc.), and a grammatical descriptor (“final,” “energetic,” etc.)
* Discussion of implied harmony in melody
* Demonstration of writing an accompaniment for a melody and various accompaniment techniques
* Composition of an accompaniment for a given or student-composed vocal melody
* Analysis of harmonic accompaniment of different styles of melody

== Assignments ==
* “Error” identification in written melodies or their harmonic accompaniments
* Analysis of melodies for intervallic composition
* Composition of well-formed melodies
* Creating a harmonic accompaniment for a given melody

== Assessments ==


== Notes ==

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