Survey of Music/Introduction to Music

(Suggested Outline)

Overview & Elements

Aesthetic

Five Fine Arts

Practical Arts

Art Defined

Rhythm

Tempo

Melody

Texture

Harmony

Timbre

Form

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

*Strings

*Woodwinds

*Brass,

*Percussion

Orchestra: Evolution and Color

Band: Evolution and Color

Piano/Harpsichord

Organ/Chamber Music

MUSIC THEORY

Based on Fundamentals of Music and Basic Music by H. Owen Reed, Mills Music Inc. Cover all required materials, no less than six weeks

REQUIRED

Notation of Pitch

Notation of Duration

Major Scales

Minor Scales

Circle of Fifths

Intervals

Major and Minor Triads

Inversion of Triads

Diminished and Augmented Triads

Triads as Tonal Chords

Voice Doubling

Connection of Primary Triads in Major Tonality

MUSICAL FORM

More extended discussion and illustrations of major forms mentioned in Overview/Elements Lecture

OPTIONAL

Secondary Chords in Major and Minor Tonality

First Inversion of Triads

Second Inversion of Triads

Cadences

Principles of Harmonization

Basic Conducting

Use hymns which incorporate the listed skills with all students conducting the class every period. Teacher leads out with demonstrations of patterns and technics.

Beat Patterns 2, 3, 4, 6 (5)

Use of Left Hand

Pick-up Beats

Holds

MUSIC HISTORY

Greece/Rome

Music in the Bible (Music in My Bible, Helen G. Grauman, Pacific Press, can serve as a primary source of materials for this presentation)

Middle Ages

Renaissance

Baroque

Classical

(Introduction of concept of romantic and classical tendencies in music)

Romantic

Twentieth Century

Popular Music

An overview of American popular music, using both audio and video illustrations

 

LISTENING UNITS

UNIT I (Orchestra)

Handel

Mozart

Mussorgsky

Kabalevsky

 

UNIT II (Orchestra)

J. S. Bach

Haydn

Beethoven

Brahms

Stravinsky

 

UNIT III (Choral)

Palestrina

J. S. Bach

Mozart

Verdi

Bernstein

 

UNIT IV (Orchestra)

Vivaldi

Haydn (Michael)

Boccherini

Mendelssohn

Grieg

Respighi

 

ETC. to the end of the year or semester . . .