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Online instruction by Vince Corozine

Music Theory 1 Syllabus

Music Theory 1 is designed to cover the basic introductory music concepts. This is the perfect course for the novice musician as well as for the student who want to ensure his knowledge of elementary skills. The essential concepts that a musician should master at this level are the following: major and minor scales, clef, key signatures, rules of notation, enharmonic equivalents, intervals, simple and compound time, diatonic harmony, melody and rhythm, and seventh chords and their inversions.

Each lesson comes with its worksheet and reviews quizzes when applicable.

Prerequisite

The student may have little of no experience with music notation.

Materials Needed

Keyboard and access to Sibelius music software program.

Lesson 1: Rudiments of Music

Tone
Clefs (Treble & Bass)
Leger Lines

Lesson 2: Intervals

Perfect, Major, Minor, Augmented, Diminished, Compound
Transposition

Review Quiz 1

Lesson 3: Scales & Keys

Major scales in sharp and flat keys
Chromatic Tones and Signs
Enharmonic Equivalents
Key Signatures
Circle of Fifths

Review Quiz 2

Lesson 4: Note Values and Rests

Rules of Notation
Meter
Syncopation
Triplets, Duplets
Ties, Slurs, Beaming, and Dots

Review Quiz 3

Lesson 5: Other Scales

Chromatic
Whole-tone
Pentatonic Scales (major and minor
Blues

Review Quiz 4

Lesson 6: Minor Scales

Parallel & Relative
Natural Form
Melodic Form
Harmonic Form
Minor Key Signatures

Review Quiz 5

Lesson 7: Simple & Compound Time

Terms & Symbols

Review Quiz 6

Lesson 8: Diatonic Harmony & Inversions

Tonic
Dominant
Subdominant
Cadences
Primary & Secondary Chords