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== Objectives ==
==Objectives==
* Students will be familiar with artificial scales, such as the blues scale.
* Students will be familiar with non-heptatonic scales, such as pentatonic and octatonic scales.


== Resources ==
*Students will be familiar with artificial scales, such as the blues scale.
*Students will be familiar with non-heptatonic scales, such as pentatonic and octatonic scales.


==Resources==


== Class Activities ==
==== Readings ====
* Discussion and definition of artificial and non-heptatonic scales
* Writing and playing a given artificial or non-heptatonic scale on a given note
* Composing or improvising a melody which uses and emphasizes the unique characteristics of a given artificial or non-heptatonic scale


== Assignments ==
* [https://ianring.com/musictheory/scales/ Ian Ring, ''A Study of Scales'']
* Writing specified scales
* Identifying and analyzing scales used in written and recorded music


== Assessments ==
==== Tools ====


* [https://jacksonhardaker.github.io/Messiaen/ Syberen van Munster and Jackson Hardaker, ''Messiaen's Modes of Limited Transposition'']<br />


== Notes ==
==Class Activities==
 
*Discussion and definition of artificial and non-heptatonic scales
*Writing and playing a given artificial or non-heptatonic scale on a given note
*Composing or improvising a melody which uses and emphasizes the unique characteristics of a given artificial or non-heptatonic scale
 
==Assignments==
 
*Writing specified scales
*Identifying and analyzing scales used in written and recorded music
 
==Assessments==
 
 
==Notes==

Revision as of 17:49, 16 July 2020

Objectives

  • Students will be familiar with artificial scales, such as the blues scale.
  • Students will be familiar with non-heptatonic scales, such as pentatonic and octatonic scales.

Resources

Readings

Tools

Class Activities

  • Discussion and definition of artificial and non-heptatonic scales
  • Writing and playing a given artificial or non-heptatonic scale on a given note
  • Composing or improvising a melody which uses and emphasizes the unique characteristics of a given artificial or non-heptatonic scale

Assignments

  • Writing specified scales
  • Identifying and analyzing scales used in written and recorded music

Assessments

Notes