Basic Materials
- Fall 2009 Course Syllabus
- Fall 2009 Class Phone/Email List
- FERPA Consent Form for Music Theory Courses
- Fall 2009 Midterm
- Fall 2009 Final
- Summary of Tonal Harmony
- Fall 2009 Final
Resource Materials from Freshman First-semester Courses
- Clef Lecture (includes example scores)
- Scales Lecture
- Intervals Lecture
- Chords Lecture
- Review Sheet for Test I
- Practice Test I
- Figured-bass Notation Exercise 1 (can play the music inside the PDF file)
- Handout on Root-position Part-writing & Harmonization and its Key
- Four-part Error-Detection Handout
- Harmonic Progression Handout
- Doubling Rules (includes 6/4 placements & notations)
- Review Sheet for Test II
- Practice Test II and Extra Problems (optional)
- Chorale Writing Exercise Jesu, Jesu, Du bist mein and Finale Version
- Review Sheet for Test III
- Practice Test III
- Handout on Species Concepts
- Lecture on Species->Chorale Phrase (PDF)
- Worksheet on Species->Chorale Phrase (PDF) or Worksheet on Species->Chorale Phrase (Finale)
Resource Materials from Freshman Second-semester Courses
- Bassline Harmonic Patterns (chords to scale degrees)
- Order of Rules (prioritization of partwriting rules)
- Chord Identification "Cheat Sheet"
- Handout on Seventh-chord Usage
- Handout on Seventh-chord Partwriting
- Review Sheet for Test I
- Handout on Non-chord Tones
- Ornamented Chorale Lecture (Melody Harmonization of tune "Jesu, Leiden, Pein, und Tod" with NCTs)
- Ornamented Chorale Homework (Melody Harmonization of tune "Jesu, Jesu, du bist mein" with NCTs)
- Buxtehude Chorale Variation for Analysis
- Pachelbel Chorale Variation for Analysis
- Sample Chorale Variation Analysis
- Chorale Variation Lecture (composition steps in PDF)
- Sample Student Chorale Variations
- Review Sheet for Test II
- Handout on Secondary Functions
- Modulation Analysis Hints (step-by-step instructions)
- Lecture on Common-Chord Modulation to Close Keys (DM to em)
- Handout on Finding Pivot Chords (step-by-step instructions)
- Lecture on Modulation with Intermediate Keys (CM to EbM)
- Review Sheet for Test III
- Practice Test III
- Artsong Composition Examples (step-by-step procedures)
Resource Materials from Sophomore Third-semester Courses
- Style copy assignment
- Doubling Rules (includes 6/4 placements & notations)
- Test I Review Sheet (not available)
- Chord Identification "Cheat Sheet"
- Lecture on Common-Chord Modulation to Close Keys (DM to em)
- Lecture on Modulation with Intermediate Keys (CM to EbM)
- Lecture on Modulation with Mode Mixture (DM to EbM)
- Lecture on Augmented Sixths (p. 1 non-modulating, p. 2 simple modulations)
- Lecture on Stylish Modulations using Augmented Sixths (Hymn modulations up 1/2 step)
- Lecture & Homework on Enharmonic Spelling of o7. (introductory)
- Schubert "Die Liebe hat gelogen". (score)
- Summary of Modulation Techniques
- Test II Review Sheet
- Lecture/Analysis on Mozart's Confutatis (cto7 chords & Schenkerian reductions)
- Reduction Example from Lecture on Wagner's Prelude to Tristan (Fr+6 chords, roving keys, and Schenkerian reductions)
- Test III Review Sheet
- Lecture Notes on Set Theory (not perfect but good enough until I get time to correct things)
- Guidelines for Aural Analysis
- Study Guide for Final Exam
Resource Materials from Sophomore Fourth-semester Courses
- Handout on Analytical Symbols
- Test I Review Sheet
- Sonata Form Handout (includes old lecture notes)
- Handout on BWV847 (analysis of fugue)
- Handout with Fugue Diagrams (analysis BuxWV 137,140,146, and Bruhns em)
- Test II Review Sheet
- See the reserve list for this course at the library.
- Music-Theory/Musicianship Curriculum
- Back to Leon Couch's Main Faculty Home Page
