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This section is intended
to help all music students learn the language, science, and math of
music. Understanding this aspect of music will broaden your
comprehension of any musical style and it's mechanics. These
theories have laid the foundations of Western music and will
continue to for the foreseeable future. With just a basic
understanding I guarantee you will look at and play music
differently. Just as and instrument is used to create sound,
these theories are used to help us understand and create music.
As you learn, I hope your appreciation grows for the
engineering that goes into the creation of music. Thoughts and
emotions are translated into sound. How do composers strike
emotion in our hearts? Why can music make me feel and think
things, transport me to a different mood, make me forget, make me
remember? It is no mistake.
Music is a moment in time, the paper that the notes are
written on is not. Notation is a time capsule, an archive of
history, a communication tool. Understanding notation will
open you up to possibilities that an "ear" player will never
achieve. It will allow you to understand and appreciate every
moment in music with a discerning ear.
To play past works, a musician must breathe life back into a
piece of music. To craft your own works, move forward with
intensity, emotion, and honesty. |
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Contents
- Quick
Reference
- Theory
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Level 1
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Level 2
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Level 3
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Harmony & Arranging
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Level 4
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Level 5
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Level 6
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Extras |
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Quick Reference
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Blank Sheet Music
- Chord Chart -
Chord Symbol Guide -
Key Chart for
Transposing -
Musical Terms -
Scale Syllabus -
Table of Intervals
- Table
of Principle Chords |
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Theory |
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Level 1 |
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- 1.1 |
Rhythm - Melody - Harmony |
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- 1.2 |
Staff - Clef
Signs |
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- 1.3 |
Lines & Spaces
- Notation - Double Bar |
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- 1.4 |
Great Staff - Brace - Leger Lines - Middle C |
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- 1.5 |
Notes & Rests (Whole,
Half, Quarter) - Measure |
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- 1.6 |
Note & Rest Values -
Dotted Notes - Flags & Beams Time Signature (4/4) |
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- 1.7 |
More Note & Rest
Values - Counting |
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- 1.8 |
More Dotted Notes - 3/4 & 2/4 Time - Note Stems |
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- 1.9 |
More Leger
Lines - Repeat Sign - 1st & 2nd endings - Flat, Sharp, & Natural -
Whole & Half Steps |
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- 1.10 |
Ties - Slurs - Major
Scale - Step, Skip, & Rep |
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- 1.11 |
Naturals & Accidentals
- 8th Notes & Rests |
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- 1.12 |
More Dotted Notes -
More Flat, Sharp, Natural, & Accidental |
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- 1.13 |
Level 1 Test
- Level 1 Answers |
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- 1.14 |
*IN CLASS* = Chord
Progressions and Scales: Pentatonic Scales vs. Diatonic Scales
introduction |
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Level 2 |
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- 2.1 |
Pitch, Register, & Range - Key Signature |
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- 2.2 |
Major Scales - Sharp & Flat Key Signatures |
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- 2.3 |
More Major Scales & Key Signatures
- Identification |
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- 2.4 |
16th
Notes & Rests - Dotted Eighth Notes |
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- 2.5 |
Time: 4/4, 3/4, 2/4, 6/8, 2/2, 3/2
- Alla Breve: Common & Cut Time |
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- 2.6 |
More Ties, Slurs, Repeats, 1st and
2nd endings - Half & Whole steps - Chromatic Scale |
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- 2.7 |
Harmonic & Melodic
Intervals - Prime & Octave |
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- 2.8 |
Major, Minor,
Augmented, & Diminished Triads -
Triad Inversion |
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- 2.9 |
Tetrachords & Major
Scales |
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- 2.10 |
Dynamic & Tempo
Markings - Circle of 5ths & Keys |
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- 2.11 |
Compound Meter -
Syncopation |
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- 2.12 |
Level 2 Test
- Level 2 Answers |
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Level 3 |
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- 3.1 |
More Leger Lines - More Chromatic Scales - 32nd Notes & Rests - 64th
Notes & Rests - Enharmonic Tones |
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- 3.2 |
Simple, Compound, Unequal, & Mixed Meter - Triplets - Signs &
Abbreviations |
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- 3.3 |
More Perfect, Major, Minor, Augmented, & Diminished Intervals -
Interval Inversion |
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- 3.4 |
More Triads
- Changing & Inverting Triads |
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- 3.5 |
Dominant, Major, Minor, & Diminished 7th Chords |
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- 3.6 |
More Major Scales - Relative Key Signatures - Minor Scales |
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- 3.7 |
Modal, Melodic, & Harmonic Minor Scales |
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- 3.8 |
Syllables (Solfege) - Transposition - More Signs & Symbols |
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- 3.9 |
Complex Time Signatures - More Major & Minor Intervals |
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- 3.10 |
More
Augmented & Diminished Intervals - Two-Part Harmony - I, IV, & V
Chords |
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3.11 |
More 7th Chords -
Conducting |
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3.12 |
Level 3 Test
- Level 3 Answers |
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Harmony & Arranging |
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Level 4 |
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- 4.1 |
Triads - Harmonizing with Chords |
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- 4.2 |
Passing & Neighboring Tones -
Arpeggios |
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- 4.3 |
Subdominant Triad - Dominant 7th
Chord |
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- 4.4 |
Melody Writing |
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- 4.5 |
More Melody Writing - Harmonizing
A Melody |
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- 4.6 |
Review - I, IV, & V7 Chord in
Minor |
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- 4.7 |
Recognizing Minor Chords - Review |
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- 4.8 |
Level 4 Test |
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Level 5 |
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- 5.1 |
Chord Position - Inversions |
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- 5.2 |
Hymn Tunes - Inversions of the
Dominant 7th Chord |
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- 5.3 |
Inversions in Minor - Part Writing |
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- 5.4 |
Arranging for Voices - Secondary
Chords |
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- 5.5 |
Transposing Instruments -
Saxophone Quartet |
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- 5.6 |
More Passing & Neighboring Tones -
Brass Quartet |
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- 5.7 |
Clarinet Quartet - The Piano,
Parts, & Assignment |
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- 5.8 |
Level 5 Test
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Level 6 |
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- 6.1 |
Arranging Review - Form |
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- 6.2 |
More Form - Cadences |
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- 6.3 |
Non-Harmonic Tones |
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- 6.4 |
Simple Modulation - Military
Marches |
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- 6.5 |
More Military Marches |
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- 6.6 |
Dominant 9th & Diminished 7th
Chord |
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- 6.7 |
String Section - Key Relation |
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- 6.8 |
Level 6 Test
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Others,
Extras, and Such... |
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Drum Rudiments |
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