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THEORY 261H | LEARNING MODULE 1

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DAY 1
Date_____9/13______ | Time___0:00_______ | Length of Session____20 min________

☑Practice Triadic Proximal Space 1-a (soprano-guided, inverse arp.)

☑Practice Directed Intervals 1-a
☑Rhythmic Echoes (Warlock, Capriole Suite)
☑Work on Practicum 1 materials

What was easy today? ____Directed Intervals_____________________________________

What was difficult today? ____Rhythmic Echoes______________________________________

Notes to self: Surprisingly it is a little bit hard on the rhythmic echoes at the end even though it
sounds easy.

DAY 2
Date____9/13_______ | Time____0:20______ | Length of Session_____10 min_______

☑Practice Triadic Proximal Space 1-b (soprano-guided, inverse arp.)

☑Practice Directed Intervals 1-b
 Work on Practicum 1 materials

What was easy today? ____almost everything lol________________________________

What was difficult today? _______________________________________________________

Notes to self:

DAY 3
Date____9/13______ | Time____0:30_____ | Length of Session____30 min____

☑Practice Extended Diatonic Space 1-a

☑Practice Alternative Line Improvisation 1-a
☑Practice Transposing Scale Degree Patterns 1-a
 Work on Practicum 1 materials

What was easy today? ____Alternative line improv________________________________

What was difficult today? ____Transposing scale____________________________________

Notes to self: The improvisation is pretty interesting! With overlapping the last note is more
challenging.
DAY 4
Date_____9/14_____ | Time____23:15____ | Length of Session____15 min________

☑Practice Triadic Proximal Space 1-c (soprano-guided, inverse arp.)

☑Transposing Scale Degree Patterns 1-b
 Duplex Capture 1-a
 Work on Practicum 1 materials

What was easy today? ______ Triadic Proximal Space______________________________

What was difficult today? _______________________________________________________

Notes to self: Starting to get used to the things that have practiced for quite a few times. But
didn’t get to practice duplex capture tho cuz there’s no audio file.

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DAY 5
Date_____9/14_____ | Time____23:30____ | Length of Session____25 min________

☑Practice Extended Diatonic Space 1-b

☑Mystery Exercise
☑Melody by Ear (spaced repetition, Beach, Gaelic Symphony)

What was easy today? ________Extended Diatonic Space___________________________

What was difficult today? _______________________________________________________

Notes to self: I love the canon exercise!!! It is not hard, but I was just so amazed every time by
canon technique, thinking why the composer can use the same material just starting at different place,
and they are able to create such a beautiful harmony and counter melodies that all make sense. Is there
any methods or rules of canon?

DAY 6
Date_____9/21____ | Time____22:20____ | Length of Session____25 min____

☑Practice Triadic Proximal Space 1-d (soprano-guided, inverse arp.)

☑Duplex Capture 1-b
 Melodicize Irrational Meter Exercise 1A (p.131, instructions provided)
☑Duplex Error Detection 8

What was easy today? _______Triadic Proximal Space_____________________________

What was difficult today? _______Duplex Capture___________________________________

 Notes to self: It’s really hard to do two things at the same time, it always distracts one another.

DAY 7
Date_____9/21____ | Time____22:50___ | Length of Session____15 min____

☑Practice Extended Diatonic Space 1-c

☑Duplex Capture 1-c
 Melodicize Irrational Meter Exercise 1B
 Work on Practicum 2 materials

What was easy today? ______ Extended Diatonic Space_______________________

What was difficult today? _______Duplex Capture________________________________

Notes to self: duplex capture still hard…? Probably gotta practice more.

DAY 8
Date_____9/21____ | Time____23:05____ | Length of Session____5 min___

☑Practice Triadic Proximal Space 1-e (soprano-guided, inverse arp.)

 Mystery Exercise
 Melody by Ear (spaced repetition, Warlock, Capriole Suite)
 Work on Practicum 2 materials

What was easy today? ______ Triadic Proximal Space______________________________

What was difficult today? _______________________________________________________

Notes to self: There are only triadic proximal space lol

DAY 9
Date_____________ | Time____________ | Length of Session____________

 Practice Triadic Proximal Space 1-f (bass/soprano mixed)

 Duplex Capture 1-d
 Melodicize Irrational Meter Exercise 1C
 Duplex Error Detection 9
 Work on Practicum 2 materials

What was easy today? _______________________________________________________

What was difficult today? _______________________________________________________

Notes to self:
DAY 10
Date_____________ | Time____________ | Length of Session____________

 Practice Triadic Proximal Space 1-g (bass/soprano mixed)

 Duplex Capture 1-e
 Melodicize Irrational Meter Exercise 1D
 Work on Practicum 2 materials

What was easy today? _______________________________________________________

What was difficult today? _______________________________________________________

Notes to self:

EXTRA CHALLENGE
List any additional practice you did here. Includes “extra challenge” exercises provided with module,
anything that I suggested that you try, or best of all, any exercises that you constructed based on your
self-observation during this or previous modules.

 Extra 4th Species Improvisations

 Sing and play voice pairs from some chorales
 Duplex Error Detection 10
 TPS 1-h and 1-i
 Derive a new exercise from an existing one (describe your version):

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Other:

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