AP#Music#Theory#

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The!following!syllabus!outlines!the!information!to!be!during!the!Advanced!
Placement!Theory!Course!
Units!are!divided!into!weeks.!!
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Week#1:##
Content&and/or&Skills&Taught&
Notation:!!
o Flats,!sharps,!accidentals,!meter!(simple!and!compound),!and!rhythm!
Intervals!
o Written!intervals:!Unison!to!octaves!including:!
Diminished,!augmented,!major,!and!minor!intervals!
o Aural!Skills:!!
Diatonic!Intervals:!Major!and!Perfect!intervals!
Key!Signatures!
o Circle!of!Fifths!
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Week#2:#
Content&and/or&Skills&Taught&
Major!Scales:!
o Tetrachords,!pattern,!Perfect!fifths,!!
o Circle!of!Fifths,!Key!Signatures!(Order!of!Accidentals)!
o Aural!Skills:!!
Major!and!minor!scales!
Major,!perfect,!and!minor!intervals!
Sight!Singing!(NumbersL!built!on!pentatonic)!
o Pentatonic,!wholeLtone,!and!modes!
o SightLsinging:!using!solfege!
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Major#Assignments#and/or#Assessments#
Test&Unit&1&&&2&
! Notation,!interval!construction,!circle!of!fifths,!scales!
! SightLSinging!
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Week#3#
Content&and/or&Skills&Taught&
Intervals!
o Perfect!intervals,!imperfect!intervals,!minor!scales.!!
o Aural!Skills:!imperfect!intervals!
o Melodic!Dictation!skills!
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Major#Assignments#and/or#Assessments:#
Interval!Aural!Test,!SightLsinging!quiz!
Melodic!Dictation!quiz!

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Week#4#
Content&and/or&Skills&Taught&
Rhythm!
o Rest,!tie,!division,!subLdivision,!accented!and!unaccented!
o Triads!
o Complex!meter,!duple,!triple,!!
o Conducting!patterns!
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Major#Assignments#and/or#Assessments:#
Conduct!Hymn!in!3/4!!or!4/4!
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Week#5#
Content&and/or&Skills&Taught&
Triads!
o Inversions!
o Figured!Bass!
o Tonal!Triads!
o Triad!inversions!
o Triads!within!tonality!
Continue!aural!skills!and!sightLsinging!
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Major#Assignments#and/or#Assessments:#
Weeks!3L5!
Melodic!Dictation/4measure!sightLsinging/!all!major!and!minor!intervals!
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Week#6#
Content&and/or&Skills&Taught&
Analysis!
o Seventh!chords/dominant!seventh!
o NonLharmonic!tones!in!analysis!
o Principals!of!Harmonic!Progression!
o Connecting!major!and!minor!triads!in!root!position!in!major!keys!
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Major#Assignments#and/or#Assessments:#
Simple!Chord!Analysis!using!selected!Bach!Chorale!
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Week#7#
Content&and/or&Skills&Taught&
Baroque!
o Major!and!minor!triads!in!4!part!harmony!
o Figured!bass!analysis!
o Realizing!figured!bass!
o Writing!bass!for!given!melody!
o Harmonic!cadences!

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Major#Assignments#and/or#Assessments:#
Using!a!given!melody,!write!a!bass!line!and!analyze!
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Week#8#
Content&and/or&Skills&Taught:&
Connecting!major/minor!triads!in!root!position!in!minor!keysL!ChoraleL!
Christ!lag!in!TodesbandenLBach!
Figured!Bass!Realization!
Writing!bass!for!given!melody!
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Major#Assignments#and/or#Assessments:#
Simple!partLwriting!assignment!
Aural!skills!assessment!on!intervals!perfect/imperfect!
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Week#9#
Content&and/or&Skills&Taught&
Harmonic!minor!
Melodic!minor!
MajorLminor!seventh!chord!
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Major#Assignments#and/or#Assessments:#
MidLTerm!
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Week#10#
Content&and/or&Skills&Taught&
Triads!in!InversionL!Minuet!11,!French!Suite!in!D!minor!
Aural!Recognition!of!harmonic!intervals!
Harmonic!Sight!Singing!Skill!with!solfege!
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Major#Assignments#and/or#Assessments:#
Aural!skills!quiz!
Duet!sightLsinging!
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Week#11#
Content&and/or&Skills&Taught&
Harmonic!CadencesLSarabande,!from!French!Suite!in!B!minor!
PartLwriting!from!figured!bass!
Aural!recognition!melodic/harmonic!passages!
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Major#Assignments#and/or#Assessments:#
2!PartLWriting!projects!(from!figured!bass)!
Aural!skills!melodic/harmonic!intervals!
Using!given!poetic!and!bass!line!examples,!compose!a!16!measure!4!part!
composition!in!hymn!style!

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Week#12#
Content&and/or&Skills&Taught&
Melodic/Harmonic!Minor!ScalesL!Chorale!Jesus,!meine!Freude!!Bach!and!
Minuet!in!G!minorL!Bach&
Diatonic!Chord!Modulations&
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Weeks#13D14#
Content&and/or&Skills&Taught&
Principals!of!Harmonic!ProgressionLSonata!in!C!Major!Op.!53&
Common!Chord!Modulations&
Aural!Major/minor/imperfect!chord&
Forms!in!music:!simple!binary,!rounded!binary,!ternary,!theme!and!variation,!
strophic,!etc.&
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Major#Assignments#and/or#Assessments:#
Aural!skills!quiz,!major!and!minor!chords!
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Weeks#15#
Content&and/or&Skills&Taught&
Classical!Period!and!SonataLAllegro!FormL!Sonata!in!F!minor!K.!332L!Mozart,!
Sonata!No.!5!in!C!Minor,!Op.!10!No.!1&
NonLharmonic!tones,!suspensions,!suspensionsL!Sonata!in!Bb!K.!281&
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Week#16#
Dominant!Seventh/Secondary!DominantsL!Rondo,!K.!494!
Motive!Development,!Melody,!Phrase,!and!Period,!FormsLSonata!in!Eb!Major!
Haydn!
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Major#Assignments#and/or#Assessments:#
Listening!Quiz!(Periods/Forms)!
Hallelujah!ChorusLHandel!
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Week#17#
Content&and/or&Skills&Taught&
Motive!Development!
Melody!
Phrasing/antecedent!and!consequentL!Symphony!No.!5L!Beethoven!
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Week#18#
Content&and/or&Skills&Taught&
Extensive!Review!and!AP!Exam!
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Major#Assignments#and/or#Assessments:#
AP!Exam!

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Textbooks:#
Title:!Harmony!
Publisher:!Stipes!Publishing!
Published!Date:!1991!
Author:!Evan!Copley!
Description:!Harmony,!Baroque!to!Contemporary,!Part!One!
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Other#Course#Materials#
Material!Type:!Software!(Finale)!
Description:!FinaleLPartLwriting!program!
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Material!Type:!Audiovisual!Materials!
Description:!iMac!
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Material!Type:!Other!
Description:!Alfreds!Essentials!of!Music!Theory!Books!1L3!reproducible!activities!
and!quizzes.!!
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Material!Type:!Flash!Program!(Teoria)!
Description:!Teoria,!Web!Supplement!!
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