AP Theory Syllabus

FINE ARTS COURSE SYLLABUS
Course Title: Music Theory AP
Department: Fine Arts Department
Primary Course Materials: The Music Theory Handbook by Marjorie Merryman, Music for Sight
Singing by Robert Ottman , Tonal Harmony with an Introduction to Twentieth-Century Music by Stefan
Kostka and Dorothy Payne, The Complete Musician by Steven Laitz
Course Description: AP Music Theory is designed for students who require it for career study as
well as those who desire it for enrichment. Though the main emphasis is placed on music of the
Common Practice Period (Western tonality from1600-1900), music of other stylistic periods and
cultures is also studied.
Essential Questions: What is the difference between notes in different clefs? What are the differences
between the three forms of minor scales? How can all the intervals be identified by ear and sight? What is
good voice leading? What are the differences between basic musical forms? What are some methods for
successful dictation?
Course Objectives: At the end of this course, students should be able to:
a. Notate pitch and rhythm in accordance with standard notation practices

b. Read melodies in treble, bass, and movable C clefs
c. Write, sing, and play major scales and all three forms of minor scales
d. Recognize by ear and by sight all intervals within an octave
e. Use the basic rules that govern music composition
f. Harmonize a melody with appropriate chords using good voice leading
g. Analyze the chords of a musical composition by number and letter name
h. Transpose a composition from one key to another
i. Express musical ideas by composing and arranging
j. Understand and recognize basic musical forms: binary, ternary, rondo, etc.
k. Write simple rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic dictation
Common Goals:
Thinking and Communicating

1) Read information critically to develop understanding of concepts, topics and
issues.
2) Write clearly, factually, persuasively and creatively in Standard English.
3) Speak clearly, factually, persuasively and creatively in Standard English.
4) Use computers and other technologies to obtain, organize and communicate
information and to solve problems.
5) Conduct research to interpret issues or solve complex problems using a variety of
data and information sources.
Gain and Apply Knowledge in and across the Disciplines
6) Gain and Apply Knowledge in:
a) Literature and Language
b) Mathematics
c) Science and Technology
d) Social Studies, History and Geography
e) Visual and Performing Arts
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f) Health and Physical Education
Work and Contribute
7) Demonstrate personal responsibility for planning one’s future academic and
career options.
8) Participate in a school or community service activity.
9) Develop informed opinions about current economic, environmental, political and
social issues affecting Massachusetts, the United States and the world and
understand how citizens can participate in the political and legal system to affect
improvements in these areas.
Learning Standards from the Massachusetts Curriculum Framework:
A chart is attached identifying which of the standards from the Massachusetts Curriculum
Frameworks will be assessed in this course.
Additional Learning Objectives Beyond the Curriculum Framework:
Content Outline:
Week 1
Review of basic pitch notation: clefs, ledger lines, grand staff, octave designation, half and whole
steps, intervals, chromatic alterations, enharmonic equivalents, accidentals [SC1]
Resources: The Music Theory Handbook, Part 1
Tonal Harmony, Chapter 1
Melodic dictation/Sight-Singing: Major key, diatonic pitches, conjunct melodies using scale degrees
1-6 [SC15 & SC16]
Resources: Music for Sight Singing, Part 1
Harmonic Dictation: bass voice
Week 2
Review of meter and rhythm: the proportional system, beat and tempo, accent, meter and measure,
meter signatures, simple meters, compound meters, asymmetric meter, conflict of rhythm and meter,
borrowed divisions, syncopation, cross rhythms, hemiola, dots, ties, dynamic and articulation
markings
Melodic Dictation/Sight-Singing: Major key, diatonic pitches, conjunct melodies using scale degrees
1-6
Harmonic Dictation: bass voice
Week 3
Review of major scales/circle of fifths/key signatures: the chromatic scale, whole-tone scale, major
scale, pentatonic scale, transposition, tonality, key signatures, placement of sharps and flats, outer
circle of fifths [SC7]
Melodic Dictation/Sight-Singing: major key diatonic pitches, conjunct melodies using scale degrees 1-
6, add movement from scale degree 7-1
Harmonic Dictation: bass and soprano voices
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Week 4
Review of minor scales/circle of fifths/key signatures: the inner circle of fifths, relative major and
minor scales, the natural minor scale, the harmonic minor scale, the melodic minor scale, the parallel
minor keys [SC7]
Melodic Dictation/Sight Singing: major key, diatonic pitches, conjunct melodies using scale degrees
1-6, add movement from scale degree 7-1
Week 5
Review of intervals: numeric values of intervals, quality of intervals (major, minor, diminished,
augmented), the intervals of the major scale, alteration of interval quality, enharmonic intervals,
inversions of intervals, simple versus compound intervals, diatonic versus chromatic intervals
Melodic Dictation/Sight-Singing: Major key, diatonic pitches, melodies with skips using scale degrees
1, 3, and 5
Resources: Music for Sight Singing, Part 2 & 3
Week 6
Review of triads/seventh chords: building and identifying triads (major triads, minor triads,
diminished triads, augmented triads), building and identifying seventh chords (major seventh
chords, minor seventh chords, diminished seventh chords, augmented seventh chords)
Resources: The Music Theory Handbook, Parts 1 & 3
The Complete Musician, Part 1
Melodic Dictation/Sight-Singing: Major key, diatonic pitches, melodies with skips using scale degrees
1, 3, and 5
Week 7
Chord inversions: identifying and building triadic inversions (root position, 1st inversion, 2nd
inversion), identifying and building inversions of the seventh chord (root position, 1st inversion, 2nd
inversion, 3rd inversion) [SC1]
Tonal Harmony, Part 3
Melodic Dictation/Sight-Singing: Major key, diatonic pitches, melodies with scale degree 1-3-5 skips,
add cadential skips from scale degree 5-1
Week 8
Chord symbols and figured bass, using traditional 18th century nomenclature to identify and analyze
chords, realization of Roman numeral progressions [SC3, SC4 & SC5]
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Resources: Music for Sight Singing, Parts 2 & 3
Week 9
Diatonic triad functions in major and minor keys, diatonic primary and secondary chords in a major
key, diatonic and chromatically altered primary and secondary chords in a minor key (based on
form of scale) [SC8]
Week 10
Functional tonal principles: tonality, chordal hierarchy, progression versus regression, harmonic
motion, harmonic rhythm, variants in a minor key, idiomatic chord substitutions (vii/V, IV/ii)
Melodic Dictation/Sight-Singing: Major key, diatonic pitches, melodies with skips, add skips to scale
degree 6
Harmonic Dictation: bass and soprano voices, authentic cadence
Week 11
Cadences: authentic and perfect authentic cadence, plagal cadence, half cadence, deceptive cadence
[SC13]
degree 6
Harmonic Dictation: bass and soprano voices, authentic and plagal cadences
Week 12
Embellishing/nonharmonic tones: passing tone, neighboring tone, changing tone, anticipation,
suspension, retardation, simultaneous embellishing tones, pedal point, use of nonharmonic tones in
harmonic analysis [SC9]
Tonal Harmony, Chapters 11 & 12
degree 6
Harmonic Dictation: bass and soprano voices, authentic/plagal/half/deceptive cadences
Week 13
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Melodic principles in four-part writing/voicing chords: characteristics of the individual line’s range,
tessitura, spacing, movement, and doubling and resolution of tendency tones [SC8]
degree 4
Harmonic Dictation: bass and soprano voices, primary triads (major and minor)
Week 14
Principles in chord connection: contrary motion, oblique motion, similar motion, parallel motion
[SC8]
degree 4
Harmonic Dictation: bass and soprano voices, primary triads (major and minor)
Week 15
Connecting root position triads: triads in a fifths relationship, traids in a third relationship, triads in
a seconds relationship, realization of figured bass [SC3]
Tonal Harmony, Chapters 3 & 11
degree 4
Harmonic Dictation: bass and soprano voices, primary and secondary triads (major and minor)
Week 16
Voicing triads in first inversion: frequency, spacing, doubling of first-inversion chords, connecting
root position and first-inversion triads, successive first-inversion triad
Melodic Dictation/Sight-Singing: Major key, diatonic pitches, melodies with skips to any scale degree
Resources: Music for Sight Singing, Chapter 3
Week 17
Part writing using nonchord tones: voicing suspensions and retardations, stylistic use of nonchord
tones
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Week 18
Review for Exam
MID-YEAR EXAM
Week 19
Triads in the second inversion: the cadential six-four chord, the passing six-four chord, the pedal six-
four chord, the arpeggiated six-four chord
Melodic Dictation/Sight Singing: Major key, chromatic pitches based on natural minor
Resources: Music for Sight Singing, Chapters 3 & 4
Harmonic Dictation: outer voices, primary and secondary triads (major and minor)
Week 20
Connecting triads in all positions
Tonal Harmony, Chapter 7-9
Week 21
Harmonizing a melody and part writing for SATB voices: writing with inversions, writing with
nonchord tones, writing with inner voices [SC2]
Tonal Harmony, Chapter 7-9
Week 22
Phrase structure, motives, and melodic forms [SC6 & SC13]
The Complete Musician, Part 3 & 4
Melodic Dictation/Sight Singing: Major key, chromatic pitches based on harmonic minor
Harmonic Dictation: outer voices, primary and secondary triads, seventh chords
Week 23
The dominant-seventh chord: part writing with the V7 chord, part writing with inversions of the V7
chord, proper resolutions of tendency tones in the V7 chord [SC10]
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Week 24
The leading-tone seventh cord: part writing with the vii°7 chord, part writing with inversions of the
vii°7 chord, proper resolution of tendency tones in the vii°7 chord [SC10]
Week 25
Harmonizing with other seventh chords: common diatonic seventh chords in major keys, common
diatonic seventh chords in a minor key (based on scale), voice leading with non-dominant seventh
chords, predominant seventh chords, sequences using seventh chords, chain suspensions using
seventh chords [SC10]
Week 26
Secondary dominant chords: the V/V, V/iii, V/ii, V/vi chords and the V7/V, V7/iii, V7/ii, V7/vi chords
[SC11]
Resources: Tonal Harmony, Chapter 16
Melodic Dictation/Sight Singing: Major key, chromatic pitches based on melodic minor
Harmonic Dictation: outer voices, all triads, seventh chords, secondary dominants
Week 27
Secondary leading-tone chords: the vii°/V, vii°/iii, vii°/ii, vii°/vi chords and the vii°7/V, vii°7/iii,
vii°7/ii, vii°7/vi chords [SC11]
Resources: Tonal Harmony, Chapter 17
Melodic Dictation/Sight Singing: Major key, chromatic pitches based on melodic minor
Week 28
Identifying secondary dominants in analysis of music, part writing with secondary dominants, voice
leading with secondary dominants
Resources: Tonal Harmony, Chapter 16 & 17
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Melodic Dictation/Sight Singing: Major key, chromatic pitches out of the key (that is, secondary
dominants)
Week 29
More harmonization and analysis with use of secondary dominant chords, modulation to closely
related keys [SC12]
Tonal Harmony, Chapter 16 - 18
dominants)
Week 30
Small forms: simple binary, rounded binary, ternary form, and theme & variations [SC14]
dominants)
Weeks 31-34
Review for AP Music Theory Exam
Take practice free-response questions
Week 35
Work on final analytical/compositional projects [SC18]
Week 36
Present final analytical/compositional projects
FINAL EXAM
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Major Evaluation Strategies:
Name of Assessment Type of Assessment Common Standards Other Objectives

Test Performance Goals Assessed Assessed
Assessment Assessed
Melodic dictation 2, 5, 6b, 6e, 7 1, 2, 4, 5
Harmonic dictation 2, 5, 6b, 6e, 7 1, 2, 4, 5

Sight-Singing 1, 3, 5, 6b, 6e, 7 1, 2
Harmonic Analysis 1, 2, 5, 6b, 6e, 7 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10
Composition/Arranging 1, 2, 5, 6b, 6e, 7 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10
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Learning Standards from the Massachusetts Curriculum Framework:
MUSIC STRANDS AND STANDARDS

PreK–12 STANDARD 1 Students will sing, alone and with others, a varied
Singing repertoire of music.
PreK–12 STANDARD 2 Students will read music written in standard notation.
Reading and Notation
PreK–12 STANDARD 3 Students will play instruments, alone and with others, to
Playing Instruments perform a varied repertoire of music.
PreK–12 STANDARD 4 Students will improvise, compose, and arrange music.
Improvisation and Composition
PreK–12 STANDARD 5 Students will describe and analyze their own music and
Critical Response the music of others using appropriate music vocabulary.
When appropriate, students will connect their analysis to
interpretation and evaluation.
PreK–12 STANDARD 6 Students will describe the purposes for which works of
Purposes and Meanings in the dance, music, theatre, visual arts, and architecture were
Arts and are created, and, when appropriate, interpret their
meanings.
PreK–12 STANDARD 7 Students will describe the roles of artists, patrons,
Roles of Artists in Communities cultural organizations, and arts institutions in societies of
the past and present.
PreK–12 STANDARD 8 Students will demonstrate their understanding of styles,
Concepts of Style, Stylistic stylistic influence, and stylistic change by identifying
Influence, and Stylistic Change when and where art works were created, and by
analyzing characteristic features of art works from
various historical periods, cultures, and genres.
PreK–12 STANDARD 9 Students will describe and analyze how performing and
Inventions, Technologies, and visual artists use and have used materials, inventions,
the Arts and technologies in their work.
PreK–12 STANDARD 10 Students will apply their knowledge of the arts to the
Interdisciplinary Connections study of English language arts, foreign languages,
health, history and social science, mathematics, and
science and technology/engineering.
THEATRE STRANDS AND STANDARDS
PreK–12 STANDARD 1 Students will develop acting skills to portray characters
Acting who interact in improvised and scripted scenes.
PreK–12 STANDARD 2 Students will read, analyze, and write dramatic material.
Reading and Writing Scripts
PreK–12 STANDARD 3 Students will rehearse and stage dramatic works.
Directing
PreK–12 STANDARD 4 Students will demonstrate skills in using the basic tools,
Technical Theatre media, and techniques involved in theatrical production.
PreK–12 STANDARD 5 Students will describe and analyze their own theatrical
Critical Response work and the work of others using appropriate theatre
vocabulary. When appropriate, students will connect
their analysis to interpretation and evaluation.
meanings.
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VISUAL ARTS STRANDS AND STANDARDS
PreK–12 STANDARD 1 Students will demonstrate knowledge of the media,
Media, Materials, and materials, and techniques unique to the visual arts.
Techniques
PreK–12 STANDARD 2 Students will demonstrate knowledge of the elements
Elements and Principles of and principles of design.
Design
PreK–12 STANDARD 3 Students will demonstrate their powers of observation,
Observation, Abstraction, abstraction, invention, and expression in a variety of
Invention, and Expression media, materials, and techniques.
PreK–12 STANDARD 4 Students will demonstrate knowledge of the processes of
Drafting, Revising, and creating and exhibiting artwork: drafts, critique, self-
Exhibiting assessment, refinement, and exhibit preparation.
PreK–12 STANDARD 5 Students will describe and analyze their own work and
Critical Response the work of others using appropriate visual arts
vocabulary. When appropriate, students will connect
their analysis to interpretation and evaluation.
meanings.
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Course Title: Music Theory AP

Department: Fine Arts Department

a. Notate pitch and rhythm in accordance with standard notation practices

Thinking and Communicating

Learning Standards from the Massachusetts Curriculum Framework:

Additional Learning Objectives Beyond the Curriculum Framework:

Harmonic Dictation: bass voice

Harmonic Dictation: bass voice

Harmonic Dictation: bass and soprano voices

Harmonic Dictation: bass and soprano voices

Harmonic Dictation: bass and soprano voices

Harmonic Dictation: bass and soprano voices

Harmonic Dictation: bass and soprano voices

Harmonic Dictation: bass and soprano voices

Harmonic Dictation: bass and soprano voices

Harmonic Dictation: bass and soprano voices, authentic cadence

Harmonic Dictation: bass and soprano voices, authentic/plagal/half/deceptive cadences

Name of Assessment Type of Assessment Common Standards Other Objectives

Harmonic dictation 2, 5, 6b, 6e, 7 1, 2, 4, 5

MUSIC STRANDS AND STANDARDS

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