Rhythmic

Reading

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Neutral

Syllable to
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Syllable

Symbolic
Association

Practice
Patterns and
Exercises

Improvise
and
Compose

Simple Meter - Quarter

Notes = Beat Unit;
Undivided Beat
Simple Meter - Quarter
Notes = Beat Unit; Divided
Beat
Simple Meter - Quarter
Note = Beat Unit; Slur, Tie,
Extension Dot
Compound Meter - Dotted
Quarter Note = Beat Unit;
Divided Beats
Simple Meter - Quarter
Note = Beat Unit;
Borrowed Division
Simple Meter - Quarter
Note = Beat Unit;
Syncopation
Simple Meter - Quarter
Note = Beat Unit;
Subdivided Beats
Simple Meter - Quarter
Note = Beat Unit; More
Rhythms with Borrowed
Divison
Simple Meter - Quarter
Note = Beat Unit; More
Rhythms with
Syncopation
Simple Meter - Quarter
Note = Beat Unit; More
Rhythms with Subdivided
Beat
Simple Meter - Half Notes
= Beat Unit
Simple Meter - Eighth
Note = Beat Unit
Compound Meter - Dotted
Quarter Note = More
Rhythms
Compound Meter - Dotted
Half Note = Beat Unit
Simple Meter - Irregular
Division of Beat
Hemiola and CrossRhythms
Asymmetrical Meters
Mixed Meters

Proficient (P) consistently performs patterns accurately

Basic (B) usually performs patterns accurately
Unsatisfactory (U) rarely performs patterns accurately
Not matching (NM) Inconsistent matching (IM)

Dictation

Application to
Literature

TONAL
READING

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Neutral

Syllable to
Syllable

Neutral to
Syllable

Symbolic
Association

Tonic Pentachord in Major

Mode; Simple Meters,
Undivided Beat
Diatonic Steps and Tonic Triad
in the Major Scale; Simple
Meters, Undivided Beat
Diatonic Steps and Tonic Triad
in the Natural Minor Scale;
Simple Meters, Undivided Beat
Diatonic Steps and Tonic Triad
in the Major Scale; Simple
Meters, Divided Beat
Diatonic Steps and Tonic Triad
in the Major Scale; Simple
Meters, Dotted Quarter Notes
Natural Minor Scale; Simple
Meters, Eighth and Dotted
Quarter Notes
Harmonic and Melodic Minor
Scales; Simple Meters, Eighth
and Dotted Quarter Notes
Major and Minor Modes;
Compound Meters, Dotted
Quarter = Beat Unit
I and V7 in Major Mode; Simple
and Compound Meters
I and V7 in Minor Mode; Simple
and Compound Meters
I and V7 in Major Mode; Other
Rhythms in simple meter
I and V7 in Minor Mode; Other
Rhythms in simple meter
I and V7 in Major and Minor
Modes; Half Note = Beat Unit
I and V7 in Major and Minor
Modes; Eighth Note = Beat Unit
I and V7 in Major and Minor
Modes; Compound Meters More Rhythms
The Moveable C Clefs
I, IV, and V7 in Major Mode;
Simple and Compound Meters
I, IV, and V7 in Minor Mode;
Simple and Compound Meters
Other Diatonic Triads and
Seventh Chords in Major and
Minor Modes
Chromatic Alterations;
Nonharmonic Tones
Chromatic Alterations;
Secondary Tones
Chromatic Alterations;
Modulations
Chromatic Alterations; Modal
Mixture and Neapolitan Sixth
Modes

Proficient (P) consistently performs patterns accurately

Basic (B) usually performs patterns accurately
Unsatisfactory (U) rarely performs patterns accurately
Not matching (NM) Inconsistent matching (IM)

Practice
Patterns and
Exercises

Improvise and
Compose

Dictation

Application to
Literature