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Latest revision as of 19:04, 21 December 2024
Objectives
- Students will be familiar with the characteristics of each diatonic mode.
- Students will be able to analyze the mode of a melody.
- Students will be able to write a melody in a specific mode.
- Students will be familiar with the different minor scales and the reason for using them.
Resources
Class Activities
- Discussion of each mode and its specific melodic characteristics (especially its color tones)
- Improvisation and composition of melodies which highlight unique characteristics of a particular mode
- Discussion of natural, harmonic and melodic minor
- Using melodic minor to remove augmented seconds from a common practice period melody
Assignments
- Writing minor and modal scales
- Identifying key and mode of written and recorded music excerpts
- Writing a melody in a particular mode
- Properly inflecting ˆ6 and ˆ7 in a classical minor melody