Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

MUST-208 | Music Theory II | Fall 2016

Instructor: Tyler Sullivan | tbsullivan@hogwarts.edu

Office: 607 Baird Music Hall
Phone: (606)-888-1234
Office Hours: 10:00am-1:00pm on weekdays
Lecture: TTH 9:00am 9:50am
Room: 174 Baird Music Hall

Required Materials: Please bring these to class everyday

Staff Paper
Pencils
Required texts: Essentials of Music Theory, Book 1. Alfreds Essentials of Music
Theory: A Complete Self-Study Course for All Musicians.

Course Description:


This course is designed to deliver further instruction and knowledge of common musical
theories and practices at an advanced level in order to prepare the student for more difficult
concepts in the future.


Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs):

By the end of the semester, the student should be able to:

Be able to analyze with Roman Numerals basic chorales and literature.

Identify the different types of inversions.
Be able to listen and notate melodies and harmonies played during aural training
sessions.
Become introduced to secondary dominant chords.
Be able to notate and analyze the circle of fifths progressions.
Identify different types of seventh chords and their inversions.

Assignments:

You will be required to complete 6 separate assignments during the duration of this
course. All work is expected to be completed on time and in an orderly fashion. Cheating on
these assignments will result in an immediate failure of this course.


All late work will be docked 20% of the final score for each consecutive day that it is not
turned in. After three days past the due date, late work will no longer be accepted.

Assignment 1: 7th Chord Worksheet

Assignment 2: Aural Quiz
Assignment 3: Secondary Dominant Seventh Chords Worksheet
Assignment 4: Midterm Exam
Assignment 5: Circle of Fifths progression Sheet
Assignment 6: Final Exam and Aural Final


Attendance:


Attendance for this course is mandatory unless you have a viable excuse for being
absent. Acceptable excuses are: Doctors Appointment, Funeral, Sickness, Etc. Each student will
be allowed a total of 3 unexcused absences until it starts to affect their grade. After the third
absence, each absence will dock 10 points from your final grade. If a student is absent for 8
classes, then that student automatically fails the course.

It is better to show up late than not at all. Tardiness doesnt affect your grade and does
not count as an absent.

Academic Dishonesty:

Cheating of any kind will not be tolerated in this course. Any student who is caught
cheating will fail automatically with no exceptions. I expect each student to do his/her own
work for the duration of this class and each assignment is to be completed by you and you
alone.


Grading Structure:

The final course grade will be out of 500 points, divided as follows:

Assignment 1 50 pts
Assignment 2 100 pts
Assignment 3 50 pts
Assignment 4 100 pts
Assignment 5 50 pts
Assignment 6 150 pts

Grading Scale:

430 500 = A
360 430 = B

290 360 = C
200 290 = D
0-200 = E

Course Calendar

Aug 22 2016
Hand out Syllabus
Discuss course objectives
Review Music Theory 1 concepts

Aug 25 2016
Discuss types of seventh chords
Aural training
Hand out Seventh Chord worksheet

Aug 29 2016
Work on worksheet in class
Aural training
Review seventh chords and their inversions

Sep 1 2016
Reinforcement of types of seventh chords
Introduce inversions of Seventh Chords
Assignment 1 Due

Sep 6 2016
Aural Quiz

Sep 8 2016
Review Aural quiz in class
Introduce Secondary Dominants

Sep 13 2016
Lecture on Secondary Dominants

Analyzing Chorale as a group

Aural training

Sep 13 2016
Review Secondary Dominants
Hand out second assignment worksheet

Sep 15 2016
Work on the assignment during class
Aural training

Sep 20 2016
More secondary dominant exercises in class

Sep 22 2016
Secondary Dominant worksheet due
Aural training

Sep 27 2016
Review worksheet in class
Discuss commonly made mistakes
Reinforce these problems with more exercises

Sep 29 2016
Review for Midterm Exam

Oct 4 2016
Further review for Midterm
Aural training
Exercises in class

Oct 6 2016
Final review day for exam

Oct 11 2016
MIDTERM EXAM

Oct 13 2016
Review Midterm exam grades
Aural training

Oct 18 2016
No class fall break

Oct 20 2016
No class fall break

Oct 25 2016
Introduce circle of fifths progression sheet
Lecture about circle of fifths

Oct 27 2016
Circle of Fifths exercises
Aural training

Nov 1 2016
Circle of Fifths progression worksheet passed out
Work in class

Nov 3 2016
Aural training exercises
Work on worksheet in class

Nov 8 2016
Assignment due

Nov 10 2016
Review assignment
Aural training

Nov 15 2016
Review Seventh Chords

Nov 17 2016
Review Secondary Dominants

Nov 22 2016
Review for Final Exam
Aural Training

Nov 24 2016
No class Thanksgiving Break

Nov 29 2016
Review for Final Exam
Aural Training

Dec 1 2016

Aural Final

Dec 6 2016
Final Exam