From Advancing Music Theory
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
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
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