PIANO/THEORY 4 COMPOSITION

PACING GUIDE1ST Quarter

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Week 1 - Review

Lesson 51-53 1. Sing and Play these intervals in B flat major:M/m2; M/m3; P/A4; P/d5;2. Sing and Play triads within B flat Major scale.3. Ear Training4. Dictation

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Sing & Play Given Scales & Intervals Each Week.

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Week 2 - Review

Lesson 54-55Review Sing & Play Drills (M/m2; M/m3; P/A4; P/d5)Sing & Play drills in C & GReview inversions of triads & seventh chordsEar TrainingSight ReadingDictation

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Sing each triad within the given mode in root position

and all inversions.

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Sing each V7 chord in root position and all inversions.

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Week 3 & 4 – Review

Quiz 1Figured BassSing & Play drills in C, G & DEar TrainingDictation

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Week 4 – Review

Quiz 1Figured BassSing & Play drills in C, G & DEar TrainingDictation

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Composing

Music

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Week 5 - Composition Tools

Introduction to four tools used in composition (retrograde, inversion, augmentation, diminution)

Theory - Figured bass

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Week 6 – Compositional Tools (2)

Use these compositional tools to create your original composition on manuscript: Retrograde Inversion Augmentation Diminution Sequencing Retrograde inversion

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Week 6 – Compositional Tools (3) Write your composition on Sibelius 5

(notation software) Introduction to using Sibelius Compass

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Week 7 & 8 Using Sibelius & Sibelius

Compass to compose music

Write your composition on Sibelius 5 - continuation (notation software)

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DIRECTIONS

To Review Compositional Tools using Sibelius Compass:

Click on Pitch Shapes & follow the directions.

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Pitch Shapes: Using Musical Motifs

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Pitch Shapes: Introduction to Pitch Shapes

Observe repeated patterns or similar groups of notes. What do you notice about the upward or downward movement and steps or leaps

used?

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Pitch Shapes: Original Motif

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Pitch Shapes: Retrograde(backwards)

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Pitch Shapes: InversionUpside down – using the same intervals but tuning rising

intervals into falling ones.

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Pitch Shapes: Changing Octave & Contour Smoothing

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Pitch Shapes: Pitch Shapes & Words

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Pitch Shapes: Augmentation

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Pitch Shapes: Diminution

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Saving Your Quiz Scores

in Sibelius Compass

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Quiz Scores User: My Quiz Scores

Scores will be saved to the User file named above.

Each quiz is out of 5 except for Sentence Construction and Monophony (10) Homophony & Polyphony (10) Chords & Harmony (25)

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Week 9, 10 & 11Scales

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Introduction to Scales

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Important Scale Terms

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Pentatonic Scales

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Blues Scale

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Blues ScaleListen to the Guitar Solo

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Jazz Scale

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Ionian Scale

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Dorian Scale

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Mixolydian Scale

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Jazz Scales – Church Modes

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Minor Scales

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Minor Scales 2

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Whole Tone Scale

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Whole Tone Scale -piece

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Complete up to Lesson 61

& all Ear Training Activities.

Complete Composition #1 following the given guidelines.

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Learning to Compose Music is Fun!

I can sing the tune I wrote!