INTRODUCTION TO MUSIC
Assume that the "chapters" will be equivalent to one week of study.
Chapter 1
This chapter attempts to answer these three questions or statements:
1. What is music in general?
2. The basic parts that create music.
3. The difference between music and "noise"
Chapter 2
This chapter covers....
1. The several parts that make up music: pitch, melody,
harmony, and timbre.
2. The introduction to bowed string instruments: the violin,
the viola, the violoncello
and double bass.
3. An introduction to music notation: the grand staff, the
measure and bar line, the
time signature,
and the treble clef and the bass clef.
Prepare for Quiz #1 on Chapters 1 to 3
Chapter 3
This chapter covers....
1. The introduction to woodwind instruments: the flute, the
oboe, the clarinet, and
the bassoon.
2. More basic concepts to music notation: the whole note,
the half note, the quarter note,
and the dotted
half note.
3. The basic arrangement of a symphony orchestra.
Quiz #1: Chapters 1 to 3
Chapter 4
This chapter covers....
1. The introduction to brass instruments: the trumpet, the
French horn, the trombone
(the slide
trombone) and tuba.
2. More concepts to music notation: the basic time
signatures (2/4, 3/4, 4/4 (or common
time), 6/8 and cut
time (2/2)).
3. A basic introduction to blues music structure, which
includes the blues scale.
Chapter 5
This chapter covers.....
1. The introduction to non-pitched percussion instruments:
the bass drum, the cymbals,
the snare drum,
and the gong.
2. More concepts to music notation: the eighth note, the
dotted quarter note, the sixteenth
note, and an
introduction of a basic tuplet (the "triplet")
3. An introduction to the basic chord qualities: minor,
major, augmented, and diminished.
Review Exam: Chapters 1-5
Prepare for Midterm Exam for Chapters 1-5, and 6-7
Chapter 6
This chapter covers....
1. The introduction to pitched percussion instruments: the
timpani, the marimba, the
celesta, and the
bells
2. More concepts to music notation: the double bar, the
final double bar, the repeat sign,
D.C. al Fine
("from the head to the end"), Fine ("the end")
3. An introduction to the major scale (the
"Ionian" mode)
Chapter 7
This chapter covers...
1. Basic eurythmics, which include clapping to rhythms, and
basic human rhythm
techniques such as
body drumming.
2. More concepts to music notation: the lead sheet, chord
symbols, and fake books
3. An introduction to world music: capoeira
Midterm Exam: Chapters 1-7
Chapter 8
This chapter covers....
1. Different types of classical chamber music arrangements:
the wind quintet, the string
quartet, the piano
duo, and the string trio.
2. More concepts to music notation: introduction to
articulations (staccato, legato, accent,
and
"fermata" (or "pause"))
3. An introduction to world music: Afrobeat/highlife music
Prepare for Quiz #2 for Chapters 8-9
Chapter 9
This chapter covers.....
1. The sub-genres that make up jazz music: bebop, free jazz,
swing, ragtime, fusion (or
"funk"),
Latin jazz, smooth jazz.
2. More concepts to music notation: the "tie", the
breve note (or "double whole note"),
cue notes, and the
basic rests (half, whole, quarter)
3. An introduction to
world music: the bolero from a Cuban standpoint and the bolero
from a Spanish
standpoint.
Quiz #2: Chapters 8-9
Chapter 10
This chapter covers......
1. The sub-genres that make up rock music: progressive rock,
soft rock, Latin rock, heavy
metal, power rock,
power ballad, 50s and 60s rock-and-roll, disco, soul, rhythm-and-
blues, jamrock.
2. More concepts to music notation: the basic symbols of
guitar tablature: the finger
numbers, the basic
"effect" symbols, and how the note relates to the fret of the
guitar.
3. An introduction to the three types of minor scales:
natural minor, melodic minor, and
melodic minor
Chapter 11
This chapter covers....
1. The basic concepts and structure of opera and musical
theater, which will include
the overture,
ballet interludes, opera-comique, and recitative.
2. More concepts to music notation: reading a percussion
staff
3. The 8 degrees that cover both the major and minor scales
(tonic, supertonic,
mediant,
subdominant, dominant, submediant, leading tone, octave)
Prepare for Final Exam for Chapters 1-12
Chapter 12
The chapter covers....
1. The role of the conductor in symphony orchestras or choirs.
2. More concepts to music notation: the tremolo, the
glissando, the multimeasure rest,
and more
introduction to tuplets (the duplet, the quadruplet, the quintuplet, the
sextuplet, and the
septuplet)
3. Introduction to world music: Russian music concepts (the
minor second, and the
"khovorod" (or "round dance"))
4. An introduction to the concepts of the
"concerto".
Final Exam: Chapters 1-12
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