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Course/ Subject: HARMONY
Grade: 10-12
Teacher: D.Burmylo-Magrann
Month: SEPTEMBER – Chapter 1 – Key Signatures and Intervals
Enduring Understandings
 Music –making is one of the oldest, most intimate and basic forms of communication and cultural expression.
 Reading and notating music are essential to music literacy.
 Educated music listeners learn to describe, analyze and evaluate music and music performances as an expressive art form.
Essential Questions
 Why and how do people create music?
 How is music analyzed and understood?
 How and why is music composition evaluated?
 How does music reflect as well as shape history and culture?
Standards
9.1.12.A, B
Content
PITCHES
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9.1.12.A, B
SCALES
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KEY SIGNATURES
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9.1.12.A, B
INTERVALS
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Skills
Memorize treble clef and
pitches
Memorize bass clef and
pitches
Recognize relationships
between enharmonic pitches
Define scale degrees
Recognize and notate Major,
minor (natural, harmonic and
melodic) and chromatic
scales
Model the Circle of 5ths
(Major and minor)
Identify scale fragments
Recite key signatures
Assessment
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Worksheets 1A-1D
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Worksheets 1A-1D
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Timed key signature quiz
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Worksheets 1E-1G
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9.1.12.A, B, J
INTRODUCTION TO FINALE
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Identify general and specific
intervals
Understand difference
between diatonic and
chromatic intervals
Recognize relationship
between compound and
simple intervals
CHAPTER 1 PRACTICE QUIZ &
TEST
Understand the simple scribe
functions of finale; Erasing
extra measures, entering
pitches (flats, naturals and
sharps), changing key
signatures, fitting measures,
etc.
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Course/ Subject: HARMONY
Grade: 10-12
Teacher: CLOAK
Month: OCTOBER – Chapter 2 - Triads
Content
TRIADS
 Inversions
 Roman Numerals
 Open/Closed position
Skills
SWDAT:
 Construct Major, minor,
diminished and augmented
triads
 Analyze triads built on Major
and minor scales
 Realize triads in R.P., 1st and
2nd inversion
 Identify the proper Roman
Numeral for each scale
Assessment
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Worksheets 2A-2I
Analyze a simple piece and
discuss how triads enhance
and fit into the melody
CHAPTER 2 TEST
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9.1.12.A, B, C
9.2.12.E
9.3.12.A, B, C, D, E, G
degree (Major and minor)
Recognize triads expanded to
4-part harmony
Understand the concept of
doubling chord tones
Define the difference
between open and closed
position
COMPOSE
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Pick a childhood melody and
harmonize using block triads
Analyze a melody and
compose a simple
harmonization
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Course/ Subject: HARMONY
Grade: 10-12
Teacher: CLOAK
Month: NOVEMBER – Chapter 3 – The Major Mode
Standards
9.1.12.A, B, J
Content
INTRO. TO TRANSPOSITION
Skills
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Explain difference between
transposing and nontransposing instruments
Identify 5 instruments that
are transposing and 5
instruments that are not.
Assessment
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Transpose a simple piece
for a brass quintet
9.1.12.A, B, J
HARMONIC PROGRESSION
 RULES OF THUMB
 EXCEPTION TO THE RULES
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PARALLEL 5-8THS
DIRECT 5-8THS
OVERLAPPING/CROSSED
VOICES
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COMMON CHORD
PROGRESSIONS
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Explain the two Rules of
Thumb and their exceptions
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Compose a basic 4-part
harmonization using the
rules of thumb and both
exceptions
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Worksheets 3A-3C
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Worksheet 3D
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Define and identify direct
and parallel 5ths and 8ths,
crossed and overlapping
voices.
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Show the 4 main distances
to ensure a solid chord
progression.
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Worksheets 3E-3H
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Investigate the 4 ways to
add musical interest to the
harmonization
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CHAPTER 3 TEST
IMPROVING THE EXERCISE
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Course/ Subject: HARMONY
Grade: 10-12
Teacher: CLOAK
Month: DECEMBER – Chapter 4 – The Minor Mode
Standards
9.1.12.A, B, C
Content
MOTION
 Melodic Motion
 Types of Motion
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Skills
Define and incorporate
conjunct and disjunct motion
into compositions
Define and recognize
contrary, oblique, similar and
Assessment
parallel motion
9.1.12.A, B
MINOR SCALE REVIEW
9.1.12.A, B
MINOR TRIADS
9.1.12.A, B, J
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Construct all 3 types of minor
scales
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Produce Roman Numerals
representing minor triads
using the natural, harmonic
and melodic scales
MINOR HARMONIZATION
9.1.12.A, B
INTERVALS
9.1.12.A, B, C
9.2.12.E
9.3.12.A, B, C, D, E, G
COMPOSITION
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Minor Mode Practice
Worksheet
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Worksheets 4A-4F
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Understanding that basic
minor harmonization uses a V,
CHAPTER 4 TEST
dim. vii, and III
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Avoid Aug. II and dim. v
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Alter an existing composition
from Major to minor and
change basic concepts such as
rhythms, tempo, style,
dynamics and instrumentation
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Arrange an existing holiday
carol from Major to minor
and alter the basic aspects of
the piece
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Course/ Subject: HARMONY
Month: JANUARY – Chapter 5 – Modes
Grade: 10-12
Teacher: CLOAK
Standards
9.1.12.A, B, D
Content
MODES
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Skills
Define the concept of modes
and list the two most
common modalities
Compose modal, whole tone
and pentatonic scales
List the seven modes in order
and identify and analyze
pieces composed in modes
9.1.12.A, B
TONAL DEGREES
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Define and identify the three
most important tonal degrees
9.1.12.A, B
TONAL IDENTIFICATION
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9.1.12.A, B
PICARDY THIRD
Understand how to look at a
few given chords and identify
the mode
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Identify and incorporate into
a composition
ARPEGGIATION
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9.1.12.A, B, C
9.2.12.E
9.3.12.A, B, C, D, E, G
Identify and incorporate into
a composition
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Assessment
Mode Practice Worksheet
Worksheets 5A-5D
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Worksheet 5E and 5F
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Worksheets 5G-5K
CHAPTER 5 TEST
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COMPOSITION
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Original modal composition
Compose a modal piece
incorporating arpeggiation
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Course/ Subject: HARMONY
Grade: 10-12
Teacher: CLOAK
Month: FEBRUARY – Chapter 6 – Figured Bass
Content
INVERSIONS
 Fauxbourdon
DOUBLING
USAGE OF TRIADS
FIGURED BASS
 Numbers
 Accidentals
Skills
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Construct chord type and
inversion on a given note
Identify figured bass numbers
and understand that the
numbers represent intervals
above the given bass pitch
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Understand figured bass rules
of chord tone doubling
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Understand the reasoning
behind each inverted chord
and the proper time to
incorporate each inversion
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Define and compose with a
given figured bass line
Assessment
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Worksheet 6A
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Worksheet 6B-6F
CHAPTER 6 TEST
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Course/ Subject: HARMONY
Month: MARCH – Chapter 8 – Non-Harmonic Tones
Grade: 10-12
Teacher: CLOAK
Content
Skills
NON-HARMONIC TONES
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Passing Tone, Neighbor Tone,
Accented Passing Tone,
Accented Neighbor Tone,
Anticipations
Escape Tone and Reaching
Tone
Appoggiatura, Preparation,
Suspension, Changing Tones,
and Retardation
COMPOSITION
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Define, identify and
incorporate into
compositions
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Analyze, compose and define
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Assessment
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Worksheet 8A
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Worksheets 8B-8C
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Worksheets 8E-8F
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Worksheets 8G-8J
Original Composition
Recognize, compose and
define
Recognize, compose and
define
Incorporate and label all
types of NHT into an original
composition
CHAPTER 8 TEST
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Course/ Subject: HARMONY
Grade: 10-12
Teacher: CLOAK
Month: APRIL – Chapter 9 – Harmonization of a Melody
Content
Skills
PROPER HARMONIZATION
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Understand three aspects to
good harmony selections
ANALYSIS OF THE MELODY
 Determine the tonality
 Melodic skips
 Sustained tones
 Available chords
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Understand, apply and
compose using the analysis
of the melody criteria
Assessment
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Harmonization of a Melody
practice
Worksheets 9A-9F
CHAPTER 9 TEST
COMPOSITION
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Follow the steps for
Harmonization of a Melody
and arrange a piece for a well
known melody
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Melody composition
Course/ Subject: HARMONY
Grade: 10-12
Teacher: CLOAK
Month: MAY – Chapter 10 – Six Four Chords
Chapter 15 – Dominant 7th Chords
Content
SIX FOUR CHORDS
 Passing
 Auxiliary (Pedal)
 Cadential
 Arpeggiated
Skills
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Understand that the six-four
chord is unstable and is
placed between two stable
harmonies.
Define, recognize and
compose all four types of sixfour chords
Assessment
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CHAPTER 10 TEST
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DOMINANT 7TH CHORDS
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Express origin of V7 Chord
Show figuration for root
position and inversions
Identify the two dissonant
intervals: dim 5 an min 7
Demonstrate regular
resolution of a
V7 – I
Worksheets 10A-10E
Worksheets 15A-15E
CHAPTER 15 TEST
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Course/ Subject: HARMONY
Grade: 10-12
Teacher: CLOAK
Month: JUNE – Chapter 16 – Secondary Dominants
Culminating Composition
Content
9.1.12.A, B
SECONDARY DOMINANTS
Skills
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9.1.12.A, B, C
9.2.12.E
9.3.12.A, B, C, D, E, G
Identify three sources for
accidentals
Understand how to properly
compose using secondary
dominants
Identify the proper resolution
for a secondary dominant
Assessment
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CHAPTER 16 TEST
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COMPOSITION
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Incorporate all of our learned
skills into one masterpiece
Worksheets 16A-16F
Final composition