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==Resources== | ==Resources== | ||
==== Readings ==== | ====Readings==== | ||
* [http://www.tonalcentre.org/index.html "What is tonality?"] (''The Tonal Centre)''. | *[http://www.tonalcentre.org/index.html "What is tonality?"] (''The Tonal Centre)''. | ||
* [http://openmusictheory.com/scales2.html "Collections and Scales."] (''Open Music Theory''). | *[http://openmusictheory.com/scales2.html "Collections and Scales."] (''Open Music Theory''). | ||
* M. McFerron. [http://www.bigcomposer.com/module/lectures/keysignatures1.pdf "Tonal Music."] (''Big Composer''). | *M. McFerron. [http://www.bigcomposer.com/module/lectures/keysignatures1.pdf "Tonal Music."] (''Big Composer''). | ||
*[https://www.musical-u.com/learn/five-notes-will-change-your-life-pentatonic-scales/ "Five Notes Will Change Your Life: The Pentatonic Scale."] (''Musical U''). | |||
*Piano Scales.Org: | |||
**[https://www.pianoscales.org/pentatonic.html Piano Pentatonic Scales] | |||
**[https://www.pianoscales.org/pentatonic.html Piano Blues Scales] | |||
**[https://www.pianoscales.org/exotic.html "Exotic" Scales] | |||
==== Tools ==== | ==== Videos & Listening ==== | ||
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne6tB2KiZuk&feature=emb_logo "B. McFerrin demonstrates the power of the pentatonic scale."] ''(World Science Festival Youtube).'' | |||
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[http://www.tonalcentre.org/index.html The Tonal Centre] | [http://www.tonalcentre.org/index.html The Tonal Centre] | ||
Revision as of 22:25, 28 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.”
- Student will learn the distinction between different scale types (number of notes, steps/semitones)
- 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.
- Student will be able to identify scale notes for any melody
- Student will be able to surmise a tonic for simple tonal melodies
- Student will comprehend the difference between tonal and non-tonal (or atonal) music
Resources
Readings
- "What is tonality?" (The Tonal Centre).
- "Collections and Scales." (Open Music Theory).
- M. McFerron. "Tonal Music." (Big Composer).
- "Five Notes Will Change Your Life: The Pentatonic Scale." (Musical U).
- Piano Scales.Org:
Videos & Listening
- "B. McFerrin demonstrates the power of the pentatonic scale." (World Science Festival Youtube).
Tools
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)