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AP Music Theory Syllabus
Mrs. Lauren Martin
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (386) 575-4153 X44073
Welcome to Advanced Placement Music Theory. You have decided to embark on a journey that
will help you discover the elements of music. This course is not for the faint of heart, but if you
are willing to put in the time and energy, you will leave with a much deeper understanding of
music. AP Music Theory is designed around the AP exam which is done in several parts,
written and aural dictation, and sight-singing.
Out of Class Study
This class will be structured in such a way as you will get A LOT of information during actual
class time. It is up to YOU to digest the information outside of class in personal or group study
time. Study groups are highly encouraged. A good rule of thumb for figuring study time at
the AP level is a ratio 1:1. One minute of study time for every one minute of class time. If you
feel that your written portion of a class assignment is done, you should practice sight-singing
and dictation.
School Retake Policy
Students may only retake ONE Summative per nine weeks. Students must retake that
summative BEFORE the next summative is administered.
School Homework Policy
Homework is given as an essential part of the curriculum to reinforce student skills and assess
student learning. Believing homework is important to promote student success; Deltona High
School teachers will assign homework as appropriate, assess that homework for accuracy,
provide timely feedback, and assign the homework to the Formative category.
Required Materials
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Three- ring binder
Five Dividers
Pencils and pens
Staff paper (you can purchase at the local music store or for free on
www.musictheory.net)
Computer/internet access
Notebook paper
Notebook (Spiral bound or journal type)
AP Music Theory Syllabus
Mrs. Lauren Martin
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (386) 575-4153 X44073
Online resources
Musictheory.net
Sonicfit.com
Required Textbooks
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Barron’s AP Music Theory (with Audio Compact Discs) by M. Elizabeth and N.
Scoggin
o This will need to be purchased by the end of the first week of school. Students
will find the book on www.amazon.com. The price of the book is $24.40 + tax,
shipping, and handling
Tonal Harmony by Stefan Kostka and Dorothy Payne
o Will be provided in class as a supplement text
Grading Policy
Formative: 40%
10%
Class Work and
Homework
10%
Concept Application
Summative: 60%
20%
Open Book review
Quizzes
20%
Aural Skills Assessment
30%
Exams
Course Plan
Student Objectives/ Skills
Aural Skills
Sunshine State
Standards
FCAT
AP Music Theory Syllabus
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Week 1.1
Basic Notation
Week 1.2
Musical Staff Clefs/ Letter
Names
Signs/ Symbols
Scales: Major, Minor, Modal
forms, Pentatonic, Blues and
Whole Tone scales
Rhythmic Elements
rhythmic
dictation
Intervals
MUA 3.4.2
Rhythmic
Dictation
Melodic Dictation
2 ms.
Intervals
MUA 3.4.2
Rhythmic
Dictation
Melodic Dictation
Group SightSinging
same as above
MUB 2.4.1
Melodic Shape/ Phrases
Rhythmic and
Melodic
Dictation
Sonata Allegro Form
Them and Variations
Analysis Mozart
Analysis Haydn
Review wks 1-4
Four Part Writing Rules
Relative/ Melodic/ Harmonic
Minor
Assign Notecards - Elements of
Music
same as above
Sight-singing
Harmonic
and Relative
minor
Recognize
Cadences
Four- Part Writing
Analysis of SA Selection
Inversions of Triads
same as above
Chordal Analysis
Intervals
Music Terms and Symbols
Hot Seat on Triads
Melodic Dictation
Sightsinging in
Notes and Rests
Time/ Key Signatures
Forms: Binary/ Ternary Rondo
Week 1.3
Major Scales- All Cadences
Major, Minor, Aug, Dim. Chords
Circle of Fifths
Week 1.4
Week 1.5
Week 1.6
Week 1.7
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Composition #1 Assignment
MUA
3.4.3
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MUD 1.4.1
MUD
1.4.2
MUD 1.4.1
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MUA 3.4.2
MUB
2.4.2
MUD
1.4.2
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MUD 3.4.3
MUB
2.4.1
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MUC 1.4.1
Same as Above
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Same as above
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Perform Compositions
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Trios
Recorgnize
Cadences
MUA 2.4.1
Week 1.8
Review
Seventh Chords and Inversions
Same as Above
Samve as Above
Week 1.9
Analysis of Composition
Review for 9 weeks exam
Same as Above
Intervals
Same as above
Four Part Writing Rules Review
Sample AP Aural
MUA 3.4.3
Bass Movt. 5th apart
Bass Movt 2nd apart
Review Keys/ Major and Minor
Scales
Drills
Cadences
Music Analysis
Voice Leadings
Cadences Aurally
Melodi Dictation
Harmonic
Dictation
Week 2.1
Week 2.2
MUA
3,4,2
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MUE 1.4.1
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Stylistic Practices
Doubling
Week 2.3
Seventh Chordsand Inversions
Same as Above
Non- Harmonic Tones
Assignment of Holiday
Arrangement
Week 2.4.
Work on Holiday Arrangement
Non- Harmonic Tones
MUB 2.4.1
MUA
3.4.3
MUB 2.4.2
same as above
Sight-singing
Individually
Same as Above
Chordal Analysis
MUC 1.4.3
Analyis of Composition
Melodic Dictation
MUE 1.4.2
Realization of Figured Bass
Harmonization of Melody line
Secondary Dominants
Intervals
Sample AP Aural
Same as Above
Harmonization of a Melody Line
Week 2.5
Week 2.6
MUC
1.4.1
MUE
1.4.1a
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AP Music Theory Syllabus
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Week 2.7
SAMPLE AP EXAM
Week 2.8
Review of Exam and Final
Semester
Exam - Rough Drafts of Holiday
Comp.
Week 2.9
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SAMPLE AP
EXAM
All State Standards
All Sundshine State
Standards
Exam and Perform Holiday
Arrangements
MUA 2.4.3
MUC
1.4.1
MUA 2.4.1
Week 3.1
Four Part Writing
Secondary Dominant
Resolutions
Harmonization of Melody Line
Week 3.2
Ecclesiastical Modes
Intervals
Samples for AP
Same as Above
M- R
same as above
MUC 1.4.3
MUE
1.4.2
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Sight-singing
Melodic Dictation
MUC 1.4.2
MUC
1.4.3
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Hot Seat Review
Harmonic Progressions
Week 3.3
Drop the Laser
Music History
Week 3.4
Catch up and Review
All material
Week 3.5
Same as Above
same as above
MUC 1.4.2
MUC
1.4.3
MUE
2.4.3
M-R
same as above
MUE2.4.1
MUC
1.4.2
Mr - R
Realize Figured Bass
Review Root Relationships
Week 3.6
Modulations in Four Part
Writing
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Phone: (386) 575-4153 X44073
SecondaryDominants
Week 3.7
none
MUC 1.4.2
none
MUC 1.4.2
MUC 1.4.3
Media Center Research
Week 3.8
Group Research Projects
Week 3.9
SAMPLE A.P. EXAM
Week 4.1
Review and Grading of AP
Exam
Week 4.2
Selections for Past AP Exams
Week 4.3
Preparation of John Cage's
"Sonata's for Prepared Piano"_
Twelve Tone Row
Sample AP Exam
Past AP Exams
MUC 1.4.2
Mr - R
Harmonic
Dictation
Sight singing
Week 4.4
Twelve Tone Row Composition
Review all aspects of Exam
same as above
MUC 1.4.2
Week 4.5
SAMPLE AP EXAM
Sample AP Exam
All of State Standards
Week 4.6
Review All Material for REAL
Exam
All of State Standards
Week 4. 7
AP EXAM - TBA
All of State Standards
Week 4.8
All Textbooks Turned In
Course Objectives
The following is a summary of the material to be covered and skills to be mastered in the AP
Music Theory course in preparation for the AP Music Theory Examination.
I. Musical Terminology and II. Notational Skills:
1. Notate and identify pitch in four clefs: treble, bass, alto, and tenor.
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AP Music Theory Syllabus
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Phone: (386) 575-4153 X44073
2. Notate, hear, and identify simple and compound meters.
3. Notate and identify all major and minor key signatures.
4. Notate, hear, and identify the following scales: chromatic, major, and the three forms of
the minor.
5. Name and recognize scale degree terms, e.g., tonic, supertonic, etc.
6. Notate, hear, and transpose the following modes: Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, and
Mixolydian (authentic forms only).
7. Notate, hear, and identify whole tone and pentatonic scales.
8. Notate, hear, and identify all perfect, major, minor, diminished, and augmented
intervals inclusive of an octave.
9. Notate, hear, and identify triads and seventh chords including inversions.
10. Define and identify common tempo and expression markings.
11. Analysis of motivic treatment and development.
III. Basic Compositional Skills:
1. Compose a bass line for a given melody to create simple two-part counterpoint in
seventeenth- and/or eighteenth-century style; analyze the implied harmonies.
2. Realize a figured bass according to the rules of eighteenth-century chorale style, major
or minor key, using any or all of the following devices: diatonic triads and seventh
chords, inversions, non-harmonic tones, and secondary-dominant and dominant
seventh chords.
3. Realize a four-part chorale-style progression from Roman and Arabic numerals.
IV. Score Analysis (with or without aural stimulus):
1. Identify authentic, plagal, half, Phrygian half, and deceptive cadences in major and
minor keys.
2. Identify in score the following non-harmonic tones: passing tone (accented and
unaccented), neighboring tone, anticipation, suspension, retardation, appoggiatura,
escape tone, changing tone (cambiata), and pedal tone.
3. Small-scale and large-scale harmonic procedures, including:
A. identification of cadence types
B. Roman-numeral and figured-bass analysis, including non-harmonic tones,
seventh chords, and secondary-dominant chords
C. identification of key centers and key relationships; recognition of modulation to
closely related keys
4. Melodic organization and developmental procedures:
A. scale types; modes
B. melodic patterning
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C. motivic development and relationships (e.g., inversion, retrograde, sequence,
imitation)
5. Rhythmic/metric organization:
A. meter type (e.g., duple, triple, quadruple) and beat type (e.g., simple, compound)
B. rhythmic devices and procedures (e.g., augmentation, diminution, hemiola)
6. Texture:
A. types (e.g., monophony, homophony, polyphony)
B. devices (e.g., textural inversion, imitation)
V. Aural Skills:
1. Detect pitch and rhythm errors in written music from given aural excerpts.
2. Notate a melody from dictation, 6 to 8 bars, major or minor mode, mostly diatonic
pitches, simple or compound time, treble or bass clef, 3 to 4 playings.
3. Notate melodies from dictation, 6 to 8 bars, major or minor mode, chromatic alteration
from harmonic/melodic scales, simple or compound time, treble or bass clef, 3 to 4
playings.
4. Sight-sing melodies, 4 to 8 bars long, major or minor key, duple or triple meter, simple
or compound time, treble or bass clef, using solfege, pitch names, numbers, or any
comfortable vocal syllable(s).
5. Hear the following non-harmonic tones: passing tone (accented and unaccented),
neighboring tone, anticipation, suspension, retardation, appoggiatura, escape tone,
changing tone (cambiata), and pedal tone.
6. Notate the soprano and bass pitches and Roman and Arabic numeral analysis of
harmonic dictations in eighteenth-century chorale style. Features may include seventh
chords, secondary dominants, major or minor key, 3 to 4 playings.
7. Identify processes and materials in the context of music literature representing a broad
spectrum of genres, media, and styles:
A. melodic organization (e.g., scale-degree function of specified tones, scale types,
mode, melodic patterning, sequences, motivic development)
B. harmonic organization (e.g., chord function, inversion, quality)
C. tonal organization (e.g., cadence types, key relationships)
D. meter and rhythmic patterns
E. instrumentation (i.e., identification of timbre)
F. texture (e.g., number and position of voices, amount of independence, presence
of imitation, density)
G. formal procedures (e.g., phrase structure; distinctions among literal repetition,
varied repetition, and contrast; small forms)
AP Music Theory Syllabus
Mrs. Lauren Martin
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (386) 575-4153 X44073
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