TEXT: Sightsinging Complete, 6th ed. by Bruce Benward
Week 1-4
- Introduction to Solfege
- Major and Natural minor Scales/scale degree names
- Major and minor triads
- Short melodic patterns
- Pulse, meter, and beat
Week 5-7
- Major, minor and perfect intervals
- Harmonic minor and melodic minor scales
- Short melodies in major and minor keys
- Cadences and form
- Diminished/Augmented triads
- Compound meters
Week 8-11
- Scale patterns
- Syllabification of rhythm, and one, two and three part exercises
- Duets and part singing
- Simple chord progressions
- Syncopation
Week 12-
- Duets and part singing
- Canons
- Borrowed rhythmic divisions
TEXT: Sightsinging Complete,6th ed., by Bruce Benward
Week 1-4
- Church modes, modal melodies
- Triad inversions
- MM and Mm 7th chords
- All intervals
- Chord patterns involving cadential six-four and inversions.
Week 5-7
- Melodies that modulate to closely related keys
- mm 7th chords
Week 8-11
- Other diatonic 7th chords
- Diatonic Chromaticism
- Chord patterns involving tonicizations
Week 12-
- Singing SATB with tonicizations
- Canons
- All diatonic seventh chords
TEXT: Sightsinging Complete, 6th ed., by Bruce Benward
Week 1-4
- Review of intervals, scales, modes, triads and inversions, meter, rhythm and 7th chords
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- Melodies with chromaticism/tonicizations
- One, two and three part rhythmic exercises
- Examples from music Literature (Palenstrina, Bach.)
Week 5-7
- Part singing/canons
- Chord patterns with tonicizations/nondominant sevenths
- Examples from music literature (Calypso songs, Schubert)
- Neopolitan chord
Week 8-11
- Modal melodies
- Sesquialtera/4x3 rhythms
Week 12
- Soprano/Bass dictation
- Chord patterns with Neopolitan and Augmented 6th chords
TEXT: Sightsinging Complete, 6th ed. by Bruce Benward
Week 1-4
- 9th chords
- Modal borrowing
- Examples from music literature (Ellington, Schubert)
- Soprano/Bass with chords
- 7th chord inversions
Week 5-7
- Melodies that modulate to distant keys
- Altered chords
- Weakly tonal melodies
- Examples from music literature (Legrand, Corea)
- Chord progressions involving 9ths and altered chords
Week 8-11
- Synthetic scales
- Examples from music literature (Debussy, Bartok)
- Trichord identification (Hanson analysis)
- Atonal melodies
Week 12-
- Examples from music literature (Hammer, Modus Novus)
- Soprano/Bass with chords (9ths, 11ths, 13ths, altered chords)
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