If you are reading this, then you are either wandering around the web at random or you've been directed here because you are a student of Music 102 (Beginning Music Theory II) at Fredonia.
This website is a work in progress. At the moment, I have only put up a few of the more recent (and relevant) handouts; soon, I hope to have pretty much everything up for download.
Table of Contents
- Assignment #1 Page One | Page Two
- Identifying the roots and qualities of triads; identifying intervals and working with scale degree notation.
- Assignment #2 Page One | Page Two
- Identifying chord roots and inversions with figured bass notation; writing triads, given the root.
- Assignment #3
- More intervals and scale degrees.
- Basic Chord Functions
- An early draft of the "chord functions" handout.
- Assignment #4 | Answer Key
- The first rhythm assignment.
- Extra Credit Assignment
- Chromatic scale degrees. Due at the same time as Assignment #5.
- Assignment #5 | MIDI
- Analysis of a passage adapted from J.S. Bach, along with a playable MIDI so you can hear what the thing actually sounds like.
- Assignment #6 | Answer Key
- The second rhythm assignment.
- Assignment #7 | MIDI
- Some practice with identifying Roman Numerals in arpeggiated textures. This is not a real piece (just some nonsense I made up), but the harmonies make functional sense, and I've provided a MIDI so that you can hear the chords you are labelling.
- Assignment #8 Page One | Page Two
- Interpreting figured bass; simple note-against-note counterpoint exercises.