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Rachel Harney

Music Theory
Chapter 5 -1
Ohio Academic Content Standards
Creative Expression and Communication Students will sing, play instruments,
improvise, compose, read, and notate music.
AP Curricular Requirement
2. The course progresses to include more sophisticated and creative tasks: writing a
bass line for a given melody or harmonization of a given melody in four parts.

Concepts: Creating a melodic line


Objectives: Students will understand the rules under each of the five categories used
to create a good simple melody.

Materials: Chalkboard, Tonal Harmony textbook, electric piano, outline, Tonal Harmony
workbook

Procedures:
1. Give student the half sheet melody assignment and ask them to complete it to the
best of their ability at the beginning of class. Students won't know how to do this.
2. Pass out the outline for Chapter 5
3. Rhythm. Explain that the rhythm of each melody should be simple and end on s a
strong beat. Explain strong beat.
4. Harmony. Explain that each note should fit the chord that harmonizes it. Ask example
like, "What is I in the key C?"
5. Contour. Explain the difference of conjunct (stepwise) motion and skips and leaps.
Give an example on the board and then play it on the piano.
6. Explain what a focal point is that there should be only one in a phrase. Have them
listen to and sing the examples on page 72.
7. Explain the rules regarding leaps. Illustrate on the board the rule about how leaps
should be approached and left. Give an example of consecutive leaps.
8. Tendency tones. Play a scale on the piano and go up to 7, but don't resolve to 1. The
students will hear how unstable this note is and that it should resolve up to 1. Explain
that 7 is a tendency tone, because it has a tendency to resolve to 1. Ask "What is the
tendency tone for the key of Ab?"
9. Look at self-test 5-1 and do A. in class. Give students a few minutes to complete the
exercise and then ask for volunteers to show the answers on the board.
10. Assign 5-1 A and B as homework and give time in class to begin homework and ask
questions as needed. This gives time to speak with individuals who seemed to not
understand the lecture.
11. Hand back the assignment they completed at the beginning of class ask them to
redo it following the rules they have learned in class today.

Assessment: Next day, we go over homework and go around the room for answers, if
someone doesn't get an answer, we explain it on the board.

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