Author: Keith Kothman
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(orch) Room Change for Tonight's Class
Orchestration will meet in SoundHouse C (MI 216, i think) of the Music Technology Studios in MIB tonight (9/8). For instructions on how to get in, check your BSU email.
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(musTh1) Quiz 1 – Teoria.com for practice
Don’t forget about teoria.com as a practice source for the upcoming quiz. You can practice identifying and constructing scales, identifying and constructing intervals, and identifying and constructing key signatures at this site.
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(musTh1) Tonality, Scales, Keys
Just some quick notes to remember, with a few bits of extra information. Tonality is a hierarchy, which means that pitches have varying levels of importance. Functional tonality (Western tonality) relies on the major and minor scales. You can use a major scale as an aid in identifying intervals. Ascending intervals from tonic are either…
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(musth1) Assignment: Tonality, Keys, Scales (CORRECTED)
ORIGINAL DUE DATE WAS AN ERROR. THIS ASSIGNMENT IS DUE THIS WEEK. Due Friday, 9/4: Wkbk: pp. 11, 12, and 15 — C1, C2, C3, C8 a and b. SKIP ALL PROBLEMS IN ALTO OR TENOR CLEF.
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(orch) Orchestration Assignment 2, Stravinsky Tango (Comments)
SEE COMMENTS BELOW ABOUT ADDITIONAL INSTRUMENTS Due Tuesday, 9/8: Orchestrate the first 24 measures of the Stravinsky Tango for Piano, up to the Fine in m. 24 (excluding the last two sixteenth notes of the measure). A copy of the Tango is in my iLocker account, as is a recording of the piano version. Your…
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(musTh1) More on Rhythmic Notation, Beaming, and Ties
Just to keep things simple, here are a few things to remember about rhythmic notation: Beginning of beats should be shown with a new note value, tied to the previous note if necessary, but not beamed to a previous note.* Beams stay within one beat.** *This rule means that note values do not generally start…
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(musTh1) Lecture Notes – More on Intervals
From grading the first homework there are several issues that are popping up across the class. Write clearly. Distinguish between lowercase m and uppercase M. ° and + signs go before size number. Know the quality familes. 1, 4, 5, and 8 are Perfect intervals (°, P, A). 2, 3, 6, 7 are Major/minor intervals…
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(elecHis) Reading Assignment
In Audio Culture, read Russolo, “The Art of Noise” Cage, “The Future of Music: Credo” Both articles are also available online: Russolo and Cage. Read the Cage article at least twice: once reading only the all-capitalized text, and then a second time reading all the text in order. The regular text serves as an annotation…
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(orch) Short Orchestration Assignment 1
Due Tuesday, 9/1: Produce two orchestrations of the following Bach chorale according to the instructions provided below. Orchestration A: choose a relatively homogeneous instrumentation (based on timbre of instruments used). Orchestration B: choose a diverse timbral collection of instruments. Both orchestrations should be for 4 – 8 players (you may double some, or all the…