music104

|  | Lecture Notes Week 1 2/05/07 Precept Organization Description of overall course plan, pedagogical approach,'active listening' grading The Major Scale Semitones, wholetones -- steps, keyboard model scales have one of each letter scales have only sharps or flats, not both scales have 1/2 step between 3-4, 7-8 Minor scale in relation to major scale, starting on 6th degree Modes in general Properties of scale degrees, concept of key Key has property that scale degrees have particular qualities relative to that key Contextuality -- the magic of tonality Beethoven 4th piano concerto 3 degree becomes 1st degree You're gonna lose that girl 4th degree becomes 2nd degree Local Color, by different chords in the same key. A Man and a Woman Solfeg exercises Parsing scales in songs, no easy method, just requires practice Using steps and semitones as identifiers/search for tonic Silent night Streets of Loredo Three things to scan for: Fast pulse (beat) Slow pulse (measure) Tonic: first note of scale Intervals How they are measured step vs. skip Perfect, major, minor, augmented, diminished The Perfect Octave Identifying Octaves Frequency ratio of 2/1 Octave displacement concept of 'octave equivalence' Classic octaves Somewhere Over theRainbow Ella Fitzgerald Stanley Jordan King Singers and George Shearing Mozart Symphony 29 Symphony 35, Haffner Bach 'Air on the G string' octaves in bass orchestra Bobby McFerrin Octave Doubling Radiohead, Climbing the Walls Mozart Sinfonia Concertante for violin and viola Funky accompaniment octaves Hendrix, Purple Haze the Knack, My Sharona Blur, Boys and Girls Pointer Sisters, Jump Sheryl Crow, If It Makes You Happy Modal example, note use of 3 different scales/modes The Greenman 2/7/07 Review scale construction Practice several scales Review intervals Continue Octaves (A is For...) you're so vain let it snow accompaniment octaves (bach, the Knack, pointer sist) frequency ratio, 'similarities' Consider melodic space created by octaves Write out Rainbow |