music104

|  | Topic 1 -- Weeks 1-4 Grammar of scales (keys), and intervals Scales Perfect intervals Thirds Steps Role of the tritone Circle of 5ths Melodic uses of all of the above Concepts of phrases, melodic shapes and articulations Topic 2 -- Weeks 5-8 Grammar of chords Major, minor triads Relations between triads and keys Tonicization Chord spacing and positions Concept of prolongation Concepts of consonance, dissonance Concepts of non-harmonic tones Melodic variation techniques Topic 3 -- Weeks 9-12 Chord progressions, chord logic, and sequences, melodic construction Blues progression Sequences Modal mixtures Scale mixtures Key change and modulation Fancy chords with more than 3 notes Song construction |