Sample Schedules

This page includes possible scheduling arrangements for the various lessons in this curriculum.

Four-Semester Schedules

Option 1

This arrangement is currently being used at the University of Dayton in Dayton, Ohio.

First Year

Week	Theory I	Week	Theory II
1	Acoustics: Sound Creation & Propagation, The Ear: Sound Reception	1	Meters & Beats, Poetic Meter & Text-Setting
2	Recording Methods, Frequency & Pitch, Pitch Notation	2	Major Diatonic Harmony, Melodic Writing & Harmony
3	Loudness & Dynamics, Timbre & Articulation	3	Rhythm & Melody, Motivic Development
4	Instrument Families, Melody & Texture	4	Harmonic Cadences, Harmonic Rhythm
5	Duration, Rhythm, & Meter, Rhythm Notation	5	Non-Harmonic Tones, Phrase Forms
6	Meter Notation, Tonality: Scales & Chords	6	Minor & Modal Harmony, Writing for Instruments & Transposition
7	Major Scales & Key Signatures, Minor Keys & Scales	7	Modal Melody, Metrical Deviations & Dissonances
8	Midterm Review & Exam	8	Midterm Review & Exam
9	Intervals, Tuning Systems & Interval Ratios	9	Spring Break
10	Modes, Solfège Systems	10	Meet the Composer, Counterpoint
11	Triads & Inversions, Seventh Chords	11	Harmonic Progressions & Syntax, Formal Function
12	Extended Harmonies & Popular Chords, Roman Numeral Analysis	12	Improvisation & Performer Creativity, Modulation
13	Introduction to Melodic Harmonization	13	Tonicization, Form in Popular Music
14	Review & Thanksgiving Break	14	Scoring, Texture, Timbre & Form
15	Final Review & Exam	15	Final Review & Exam

Second Year

Week	Theory III	Week	Theory IV
1	Review of Theory I & II	1	Electronic Instruments, Synthesis
2	Chromatic Harmony, Other Scales	2	Sampling, Musique Concrète
3	Large Forms	3	Amplification & Distortion, Filters & Effects
4	The Music Business, Genre	4	Vocal Modification, Sequencing
5	Rap	5	Drum Machines, Turntablism
6	Film & Television Music, Stage Music	6	Multiphonics, Reverb
7	Video Game Music, Multimedia	7	Studio Production, Music and the Internet
8	Midterm Review & Exam	8	Midterm Review & Exam
9	Pantriadicism & Chromatic Mediants, Pandiatonicism & Soundmass, Extended Techniques	9	Spring Break
10	Quartal Harmony, Emotion in Music, Impressionism	10	Instructor's Choice
11	Simultaneity, Eclecticism, Quotation & Sampling	11
12	Atonality, Serialism, Set Theory	12
13	Microtonality, Colotomic Structures	13
14	Minimalism, Thanksgiving Break	14
15	Final Review & Exam	15	Final Review & Exam