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== Objectives ==
== Objectives ==
* Students will understand the fundamental concepts of tonality and scales, including terminology like “pentatonic” and “heptatonic.”
* Students will understand the fundamental concepts of tonality and scales, including terminology like “pentatonic” and “heptatonic.”

Revision as of 15:45, 9 July 2020

This lesson is part of the Fundamentals of Sound & Music module.

Objectives

  • Students will understand the fundamental concepts of tonality and scales, including terminology like “pentatonic” and “heptatonic.”
  • Students will be familiar with concepts of dissonance and consonance in regards to harmony, and with common harmonic terminology such as tertial, quartal, triad and tetrad.

Resources

Class Activities

  • Discussion and demonstration of the concepts of tonality and tonal centers
  • Discussion and demonstration of scale subsets within a particular tuning system
  • Discussion and demonstration of different sizes and types of chords
  • Scalar analysis of different melodies

Assignments

  • Analysis of a piece of music for tonic, scale
  • Analysis of chords (presented aurally or in protonotation)

Assessments

Notes