2. PIANO/THEORY 4 COMPOSITION PACING GUIDE 1 ST Quarter

3. Piano/Theory 4 Week 1 - Review Lesson 51-53 1. Sing and Play these intervals in B flat major: M/m2; M/m3; P/A4; P/d5; 2. Sing and Play triads within B flat Major scale. 3. Ear Training 4. Dictation

4. Piano/Theory 4 Sing & Play Given Scales & Intervals Each Week.

5. Piano/Theory 4 Week 2 - Review Lesson 54-55 Review Sing & Play Drills (M/m2; M/m3; P/A4; P/d5) Sing & Play drills in C & G Review inversions of triads & seventh chords Ear Training Sight Reading Dictation

6. Piano/Theory 4 Sing each triad within the given mode in root position and all inversions.

7. Piano/Theory 4 Sing each V 7 chord in root position and all inversions..

8. Piano/Theory 4 Week 3 & 4 – Review Quiz 1 Figured Bass Sing & Play drills in C, G & D Ear Training Dictation

9. Piano/Theory 4 Week 4 – Review Quiz 1 Figured Bass Sing & Play drills in C, G & D Ear Training Dictation

10. Piano/Theory 4 Composing Music

11. Piano/Theory 4 Week 5 - Composition Tools Introduction to four tools used in composition (retrograde, inversion, augmentation, diminution) Theory - Figured bass

12. Piano/Theory 4 Week 6 – Compositional Tools (2) Use these compositional tools to create your original composition on manuscript:  Retrograde  Inversion  Augmentation  Diminution  Sequencing  Retrograde inversion

13. Piano/Theory 4 Week 6 – Compositional Tools (3) Write your composition on Sibelius 5 (notation software) Introduction to using Sibelius Compass

14. Piano/Theory 4 Week 7 & 8 Using Sibelius & Sibelius Compass to compose music Write your composition on Sibelius 5 - continuation (notation software)

15. Piano/Theory 4 DIRECTIONS To Review Compositional Tools using Sibelius Compass: Click on Pitch Shapes & follow the directions.

16. Piano/Theory 4 Pitch Shapes: Using Musical Motifs

17. Piano/Theory 4 Pitch Shapes: Introduction to Pitch Shapes Observe repeated patterns or similar groups of notes. What do you notice about the upward or downward movement and steps or leaps used?

18. Piano/Theory 4 Pitch Shapes: Original Motif

19. Piano/Theory 4 Pitch Shapes: Retrograde (backwards)

20. Piano/Theory 4 Pitch Shapes: Inversion Upside down – using the same intervals but tuning rising intervals into falling ones.

21. Piano/Theory 4 Pitch Shapes: Changing Octave & Contour Smoothing

22. Piano/Theory 4 Pitch Shapes: Pitch Shapes & Words

23. Piano/Theory 4 Pitch Shapes: Augmentation

24. Piano/Theory 4 Pitch Shapes: Diminution

25. Piano/Theory 4 Saving Your Quiz Scores in Sibelius Compass

26. Piano/Theory 4 Quiz Scores User: My Quiz Scores Scores will be saved to the User file named above. Each quiz is out of 5 except for  Sentence Construction and Monophony (10)  Homophony & Polyphony (10)  Chords & Harmony (25)

27. Piano/Theory 4 Week 9, 10 & 11 Scales

28. Piano/Theory 4 Introduction to Scales

29. Piano/Theory 4 Important Scale Terms

30. Piano/Theory 4 Pentatonic Scales

31. Piano/Theory 4 Blues Scale

32. Piano/Theory 4 Blues Scale Listen to the Guitar Solo

33. Piano/Theory 4 Jazz Scale

34. Piano/Theory 4 Ionian Scale

35. Piano/Theory 4 Dorian Scale

36. Piano/Theory 4 Mixolydian Scale

37. Piano/Theory 4 Jazz Scales – Church Modes

38. Piano/Theory 4 Minor Scales

39. Piano/Theory 4 Minor Scales 2

40. Piano/Theory 4 Whole Tone Scale

41. Piano/Theory 4 Whole Tone Scale -piece

42. Piano/Theory 4 Complete up to Lesson 61 & all Ear Training Activities. Complete Composition #1 following the given guidelines.

43. Piano/Theory 4 Learning to Compose Music is Fun! I can sing the tune I wrote!