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Amazon logo Aldwell, Edward, and Carl Schachter. Harmony and Voice Leading. 3rd ed. Orlando, FL: Harcourt Brace, 2002. ISBN: 9780155062429. (Listed below as A+S.)

Various Composers. Five Centuries of Choral Music for Mixed Voices. Vol. 1. New York, NY: G. Schirmer, 1963.


LEC #TOPICSREADINGS
1Ritual Reading of the Syllabus, Pre-test, Overview
2Keys, Scales, Modes, Intervals

Assignment 1
A+S. Chapters 1 and 2, skip pp. 25-26.
3Rhythm and Meter

Triads and Seventh Chords

Assignment 2

Practice Quiz (C Major, a Minor)
A+S. Chapters 3 and 4.
4Procedures of Four-part Writing

Assignment 3

Quiz 1 (G Major, e Minor)
A+S. Chapter 5.
5Rules for Two-part Counterpoint

Assignment 4
Rules for Two-part Counterpoint (distributed in lecture 4)
6Root-position Tonic and Dominant

Assignment 5

Quiz 2 (F Major, d Minor)
A+S. Chapter 6.
7First-inversion Tonic, Dominant, Leading-tone Triads

Assignment 6

Quiz 3 (D Major, b Minor)
A+S. Chapter 7.
8Inversions of the Dominant Seventh

Assignment 7
A+S. Chapter 8.
9Preparing the Dominant, via ^4 in the Bass

Assignment 8

Quiz 4 (B-flat Major, g Minor)
A+S. Chapter 9.
10The Cadential Six-four

Assignment 9
A+S. Chapter 10.
11Assignment 10

Quiz 5 (A Major, f-sharp Minor)
12Assignment 11
13Midterm Exam (In class)
14Assignment 12
15Melodic Figuration

Assignment 13
A+S. Chapter 20.
16Rhythmic Figuration

Assignment 14

Quiz 6 (E-flat Major, c Minor)
A+S. Chapter 21, pp. 348-365.
17Rhythmic Figuration (cont.)

Assignment 15
A+S. Chapter 21, pp. 365-371.
18Subdominant and Submediant Triads

Assignment 16

Quiz 7 (E Major, c-sharp Minor)
A+S. Chapters 11 and 13.
19Supertonic and Subdominant Seventh Chords

Quiz 8 (A-flat Major, f Minor)
A+S. Chapter 12.
20Applied Dominants, a.k.a. Secondary Dominants

Assignment 17
A+S. Chapter 25.
21The Dominant as a Key Area

Assignment 18

Quiz 9 (B Major, g-sharp Minor)
A+S. Chapter 14.
22Diatonic Modulation (only Modulatory Techniques)

Assignment 19
A+S. Chapter 26, pp. 448-454 only "Modulatory Techniques."
23Quiz 10 (D-flat Major, b-flat Minor)
24Assignment 20

Evaluations, Summation, Post-test
25Performances of Final Projects (In class)

 








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