Song List:
Before the Lessons
Introduction and Biography
Facts to Know
What Will You Do
Unit 1
The Starting Point: A Review
1: Notation Basics: A Review
2: The C Clef
Explore
3: Key Signature Basics: A Review
4: Transposing Instruments
Practice Page
5: Orchestration
6: Rhythm Basics: A Review
7: Meter Basics: A Review
8: Meter Explorations
9: Listen and Create Rhythms
A Metric Diversion
Arranging for Percussion Ensemble
Test Your Skills for Unit 1
Unit 2
10: Scale Basics: A Review
11: Modes: A Review
Transposing Modes
Practice Page
12: Chromatic, Whole Tone, & Pentatonic Scales
Explore
13: Listen & Create: Scale & Mode Review Plus New Scales
Composing with New Scales Sounds
14: Intervals: A Review of the Basics
15: Inverting Intervals
Simple & Compound Intervals
Beyond the Page
16: Triads: A Review of the Basics
Triads of the Scale
17: Seventh Chords
Seventh Chords in Inversions
18: Explore
19: Listening to Intervals and Triads
Test Your Skills for Unit 2
Unit 3
20: Cadence Review
21: The Deceptive Cadence and Chord Progressions
Progressions
22: Four Part Harmony: The Basics
23: Writing in Four Part Harmony
24: Nonharmonic Tones
25: Modulation
26: Listen to Cadences & Chord Progressions
Composing with Modulation
27: Sonata Form
28: Music Dictionary
Using Music Terms
Test Your Skills - Final Test
Extend Your Listening
Answer Page for Listening
Examples
Resources for Further Study
Instrumental Ranges
Scope and Sequence