Music Theory Grade 6 at Jakarta Conservatory of Music

Syllabus planned by Hazim Suhadi

Text and Materials:
1. The Musicians Guide to Theory and Analysis, Clendinning/Marvin (Norton).
2. Theory Essentials: An Integrated Approach to Harmony, Ear Training, and Keyboard Skills,
Mayfield (Schirmer).
3. The Complete Musician: An Integrated Approach to Tonal Theory, Analysis, and Listening, Laitz
(Oxford).
4. Benward, Bruce, and Marilyn Saker. Music in Theory and Practice. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2002.
Print.
Unit 1
Topics: Fundamentals review, triads and seventh chords in root position and inversion (in isolation),
figured bass, meters, part writing with only root-position chords, simple cadences.
Tentative Schedule (dapat berubah)
Week
Topic
1
2
3
4
5
6
7

Review from
Grade 5

Triads and
seventh
chords
Review from
Grade 5
Part writing

Homework/inclass assignments

Course introduction
Fundamentals of pitch: C-clefs (alto and tenor clefs)
Major scales and key signatures
Minor scale forms (natural, harmonic, melodic)
Minor scales and key signatures
Intervals (identifying and writing)
Triads and seventh chords in root position (in isolation)
Reading figured bass and lead-sheet symbols
Triads and seventh chords in inversion (in isolation)
Simple meters and compound meters
Four-voice part writing with root-position chords
Root movement by fifth (i.e. I-IV, V-I, etc.)
Cadences pt. 1 (authentic and half cadence)
Review for MID-TERM TEST
MID-TERM TEST

Unit 2
Topics: Melodic writing, first- and second-species counterpoint, tendency tones, root movement by
seconds and thirds, more cadences, part writing with first inversion chords and leading tone triad, nonharmonic tones.
Tentative Schedule (dapat berubah)
Week
Topic
9
10
11
12

Counterpoint

Characteristics of melody
Connecting intervals in 1:1 counterpoint
Connecting intervals in 1:1 counterpoint (review)
Writing 2:1 counterpoint
Writing 2:1 counterpoint (review)
Tendency tones (i.e. leading tone and choral seventh)

Homework/in-class
assignments

13
14
15
16
17
18
19

Part writing

Root movement by second

Root movement by third and other progression
Cadences pt. 2 (i.e. deceptive, plagal and plagal extension,
Phrygian, etc.)
Part writing with first inversion chords
Leading-tone triad (i.e. vii or viio)
Other first-inversion practices
Non harmonic tones in four-part settings: passing,
neighboring, appoggiaturas, double neighbors,
anticipations
Non harmonic tones: suspensions
Review for FINAL EXAM
FINAL EXAM

Music Theory Grade 7 at Jakarta Conservatory of Music

Syllabus planned by Hazim Suhadi
Text and Materials:
1. The Musicians Guide to Theory and Analysis, Clendinning/Marvin (Norton).
2. Theory Essentials: An Integrated Approach to Harmony, Ear Training, and Keyboard Skills,
Mayfield (Schirmer).
3. The Complete Musician: An Integrated Approach to Tonal Theory, Analysis, and Listening, Laitz
(Oxford).
4. Benward, Bruce, and Marilyn Saker. Music in Theory and Practice. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2002.
Print.
Unit 1
Tentative Schedule (dapat berubah)
Week
Topics for written theory
1 July 23
Review: Part writing rules
2 July 30
Dominant and leading-tone seventh
chords (V7 and viio7 chords)
3 August 6
Additional seventh chords
4 August 13
Part writing exercises (I)
5 August 20
Six-four chords (passing, pedal,
appoggiatura, cadential)
6 August 27
NO CLASS
7 September 3
Phrase analysis
8 September 10
Sentence structure and periods
9 September 17
Part writing exercises (II)
10 September 24 MID-TERM TEST
*harmonic dictation with chord progressions~!
Unit 2
Tentative Schedule (dapat berubah)
Week
Topics for written theory
11 1 October
Diatonic sequences
12 8 October
Part writing exercises (III)
13 15 October
Bolos
14 22 October
Introduction to secondary dominants
Secondary dominants of the dominant
15 29 October
Tonicizing other scale degrees other
than the dominant
16 5 November
Part writing exercises (IV)
17 12 November
18 19 November
19 26 November
20 3 December

Chromatic sequences with secondary

dominants
Part writing exercises (V)
Review for final exam
FINAL EXAM

Topics for solfeggio

Leaps within the tonic-dominant triads
Diatonic leaps except the 7th and
tritone
Leaps of a 7th or tritone within the V7
chord
Syncopation in simple meters
Syncopation in compound meters

Topics for solfeggio

Syncopation at the beat subdivision
level
Triplet division
Chromatic notes in the context of
stepwise motion
Chromatic notes approached or left by
leap
Tonicization of V in major keys
Review

Music Theory Diploma 1 at Jakarta Conservatory of Music

Syllabus planned by Hazim Suhadi

Text and Materials:
1. The Musicians Guide to Theory and Analysis, Clendinning/Marvin (Norton).
2. Theory Essentials: An Integrated Approach to Harmony, Ear Training, and Keyboard Skills,
Mayfield (Schirmer).
3. The Complete Musician: An Integrated Approach to Tonal Theory, Analysis, and Listening, Laitz
(Oxford).
4. Benward, Bruce, and Marilyn Saker. Music in Theory and Practice. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2002.
Print.
Unit 1
Tentative Schedule (dapat berubah)
Week
Topics for written theory
1 July 23
Review: Phrase analysis
2 July 30
3 August 6

Topics for solfeggio

Leaps within the tonic-dominant triads
Harmonic progression using ii and IV
Introduction to modulation
Diatonic leaps except the seventh and
Modulation to closely related keys
tritone
Harmonic progression using ii6 and IV6
King will take over class

Music Theory Diploma 2 at Jakarta Conservatory of Music

Syllabus planned by Hazim Suhadi
Text and Materials:
1. The Musicians Guide to Theory and Analysis, Clendinning/Marvin (Norton).
2. Theory Essentials: An Integrated Approach to Harmony, Ear Training, and Keyboard Skills,
Mayfield (Schirmer).
3. The Complete Musician: An Integrated Approach to Tonal Theory, Analysis, and Listening, Laitz
(Oxford).
4. Benward, Bruce, and Marilyn Saker. Music in Theory and Practice. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2002.
Print.
Unit 1
Topics: Augmented sixth chords, enharmonic modulation with augmented sixth chords and fully
diminished seventh chords.
Tentative Schedule (dapat berubah)
Week
Topic
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8

Review modal mixture and Neapolitan sixth

Introduction to augmented sixth chords
Augmented sixth chords in context
Enharmonic modulation with augmented sixth
chords
Enharmonic modulation with augmented sixth
chords (continued)
Enharmonic modulation with fully diminished
seventh chords
Enharmonic modulation with fully diminished
seventh chords (continued)
Review for MID-TERM EXAM

Homework/in-class
assignments

MID-TERM EXAM

Unit 2
Topics: Binary and ternary forms, Baroque invention and fugue.
Tentative Schedule (dapat berubah)
Week
Topic
10
11
12
13

14
15
16
17
18
19
20

Simple binary
Simple ternary
Rounded binary pt. 1
Rounded binary pt. 2
Analyzing composite ternary

Baroque melody and fortspinnung

Invention and fugue pt. 1: The exposition
Invention and fugue pt. 2: Double and triple fugues
Invention and fugue pt. 3: Inversion, augmentation,
diminution and other subject alterations
Invention and fugue pt. 4: Canon and vocal fugues
Review for FINAL EXAM
FINAL EXAM

Homework/in-class
assignments

Musical Analysis #1:

String Quartet in D minor,
Op. 76, No. 2, third
movement by Joseph
Haydn

Music Theory Diploma 3 at Jakarta Conservatory of Music

Syllabus planned by Hazim Suhadi
Text and Materials:
1. The Musicians Guide to Theory and Analysis, Clendinning/Marvin (Norton).
2. Theory Essentials: An Integrated Approach to Harmony, Ear Training, and Keyboard Skills,
Mayfield (Schirmer).
3. The Complete Musician: An Integrated Approach to Tonal Theory, Analysis, and Listening, Laitz
(Oxford).
4. Benward, Bruce, and Marilyn Saker. Music in Theory and Practice. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2002.
Print.
Unit 1
Topics: Vocal forms, theme and variations, rondo.
Tentative Schedule (dapat berubah)
Week
Topic
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9

Review fugues and other contrapuntal genres (from

Diploma 2)
Vocal forms pt. 1
Vocal forms pt. 2
Theme and variations pt. 1 (i.e. figural, chromatic,
character)
Theme and variations pt. 2 (i.e. textural, timbral,
continuous)
Formal organization and performing variations
Rondo pt. 1 (i.e. five-part rondo)
Rondo pt. 2 (refrains and episodes, transitions and
retransitions)
Review for MID-TERM EXAM

Homework/inclass assignments

10

MID-TERM EXAM

Unit 2
Topics: Basic sonata form, sonata form in the Romantic era, sonata rondo form.
Tentative Schedule (dapat berubah)
Week
Topic
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20

Homework/inclass assignments

Review binary and ternary forms (from Diploma 2)

Basic sonata form pt. 1
Basic sonata form pt. 2
Sonata form in the Romantic era pt. 1
Sonata form in the Romantic era pt. 2
Related forms (i.e. sonatina, concerto, larger ternary form)
Sonata rondo pt. 1
Sonata rondo pt. 2
Review for FINAL EXAM
FINAL EXAM

Music Theory Diploma 4 at Jakarta Conservatory of Music

Syllabus planned by Hazim Suhadi
Text and Materials:
1. The Musicians Guide to Theory and Analysis, Clendinning/Marvin (Norton).
2. Theory Essentials: An Integrated Approach to Harmony, Ear Training, and Keyboard Skills,
Mayfield (Schirmer).
3. The Complete Musician: An Integrated Approach to Tonal Theory, Analysis, and Listening, Laitz
(Oxford).
4. Benward, Bruce, and Marilyn Saker. Music in Theory and Practice. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2002.
Print.
Unit 1
Topics: Non-traditional scales, ordered sets, transposition and interval class vectors, interval class vectors
and inversion.
Tentative Schedule (dapat berubah)
Week
Topic
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8

Modes, scales and sets

Scales: pentatonic, whole-tone, octatonic
Integer notation
Ordered sets, transposition and interval class
vectors
Ordered sets, transposition and interval class
vectors (review)
Interval class vectors and inversion pt. 1
Interval class vectors and inversion pt. 2
Review for MID-TERM EXAM
MID-TERM EXAM

Homework/in-class
assignments

Unit 2
Topics: Serialism, segment permutations, row relationships, combinatorial row, twelve-tone analysis.
Tentative Schedule (dapat berubah)
Week
Topic
9
10
11
12
13
14
15

Homework/in-class
assignments

Serialism
Segment permutations: P, R, I, RI
Serialism and segment permutations (review)
Row relationships on a matrix
Combinatorial row relationship
Row (review)
Twelve-tone analysis pt. 1
Twelve-tone analysis pt. 2
Review for MID-TERM EXAM
MID-TERM EXAM

Unit 3
Topics: Current trends in music.
Tentative Schedule (dapat berubah)
Week
Topic
16
17
18
19
20

Homework/in-class
assignments

New ways to organize rhythm, meter, and duration

pt. 1
New ways to organize rhythm, meter, and duration
pt. 2
New ways to articulate musical form
Recent trends
Review for FINAL EXAM
FINAL EXAM
End of syllabus