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Music Theory Classroom: Fundamentals of Melody and Harmony 1
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Music Theory Classroom: Fundamentals of Melody and Harmony 1

This is Part 1 of the 3-part Fundamentals of Melody and Harmony course.
Created byNate Brown
Last updated 11/2020
English

What you'll learn

  • Music theory for homeschool students, high-school musicians, or anyone!
  • Reading pitches in treble and bass clef
  • Locating pitches on the keyboard
  • Major scales
  • Major and minor key signatures
  • Three forms of minor scale

Course content

2 sections • 19 lectures • 1h 41m total length

  • Introductory Lesson19:54

    This lesson introduces the entire Music Theory Classroom curriculum and ends with a bridge to the first lesson of both Fundamentals courses.

  • [Download] Lecture Notes for Lessons 1-40:05
  • [Download] Staff Paper for Taking Notes0:16
  • Lesson 1: Pitches on the Staff in Treble and Bass Clefs8:47

    In order to study the pitches represented by the vertical axis of the staff, we need to understand clefs and the reference pitches they give us.

  • Lesson 2: Pitches on the Keyboard7:03

    The keyboard is an essential tool for reading music and doing music theory. It's important to become familiar with it, even if we never intend to be a performer on it.

  • Lesson 3: Ledger Lines7:52

    How do we notate pitches that go higher or lower than the lines of the staff?

  • Lesson 4: Sharps, Flats, and Naturals; Enharmonic Pitches6:58

    The piano has 88 keys, but we've learned so far can only account for 52 of them. Today we learn about the other 36, the black keys.

  • Standalone Lesson: Dynamics and Expression12:19

    This lesson may be inserted when you need a break from the regular material, any time after Lesson 4 of Fundamentals of Melody and Harmony and Lesson 4 of Fundamentals of Rhythm.

  • Where are Lessons 5-7?0:53

Requirements

  • No prerequisite - in combination with the Fundamentals of Rhythm course, this will teach you to read music from the very beginning!

Description

Music Theory Classroom is a four-course, one- to two-year music theory curriculum designed for high-school and homeschool students. It covers the material studied by music majors in the first one to two years of college, but it is structured so that a diligent student can complete it in three 14-week terms.

The four courses in the curriculum include: two Fundamentals courses which are intended to be taken concurrently, followed by Diatonic Harmony and then Chromatic Harmony. Each course has 28 lessons, so the recommended pace is approximately two lessons per week (when taking the Fundamentals courses, this means two lessons from each of the two courses). Students should feel free to move more slowly if the material is completely new.

This is Part 1 of the Fundamentals of Melody and Harmony course.

Students who have already mastered key signatures and scales should consider starting with Part 2. Students who have already mastered intervals and chords may want to go straight to Part 3.

Note: Some lesson numbers appear out of order. Even though they're distributed across the three parts of the course, the lessons are numbered in the suggested order.

Fundamentals of Melody and Harmony contains 28 lessons in three parts. All three parts interlock. Part 1 (lessons 1-4, 8-9, 11-14) includes the basics of reading pitches on the staff in treble and bass clefs, including key signatures and major and minor scales. Part 2 (lessons 5, 15-18, 20-21, 23-24, 26-27) covers the rest of the theory fundamentals needed to prepare students for Diatonic Harmony: intervals, triads and seventh chords. Part 3 (lessons 6-7, 10, 19, 22, 25, 28) includes topics that are part of a complete fundamentals course, but may not have been learned by students who already know the material in Parts 1 and 2. These include octave-transposing clefs, C clefs, modes and some other scales, and extended tertian chords.

For a more complete description of the curriculum, check the MusicTheoryClassroom dot com website.

Who this course is for:

  • High school students (including homeschoolers) who are interested in studying music at the college level
  • Anyone who is interested in learning music theory

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