Fundamentals of Music (Theory)
I delivered this course at Columbia University in Fall 2016.
Notes
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- If you are a BC student, I have to add you manually - please let me know if you ever encounter issues accessing materials.
Schedule
Please find the schedule for this course here (sign-in required)
Readings
Occasionally, weekly readings or supplements to weekly readings will be posted/linked to from here.
- Reading due 9/8 (Snodgrass, p. 1-7) (sign-in required)
- Reading due 9/13 (Snodgrass, p. 7-14) (sign-in required)
- Reading due 9/15 (Handout ‘More on musical time’)
- Reading due 9/20 (Snodgrass, p. 26-33) (sign-in required)
- Reading due 9/22 (Snodgrass, p. 49-59) (sign-in required)
- Reading due 9/27 (Snodgrass, p. 71-81) (sign-in required)
- Reading due 9/29 (Handout ‘Transposition’)
- Handout ‘Kinds of Contrapuntal Motion’
Midterm study guide
Final study guide
Assignments
Weekly assignments will be available here shortly after the class they were released.
Assignment 1 [pdf] - Due 9/13 in class
- Question 0 is just a really useful (and optional) online drill. Aim to be able to get 19/20 right in 2 minutes. No need to email me your report [link]
- Question 4 should read “Notate the following whole and half steps above the given pitch as indicated…” (i.e. omit “and below”)
- You can ignore the clef questions referring to the alto clef without penalty. If you like, check out the material here and attempt the questions.
Assignment 2 [pdf] - Due 9/20 in class
Assignment 3 [pdf] - Due 9/27 in class
- Note that you must also email me a completion code to get full credit in this assignment.
Assignment 4 [pdf] - Due 10/11 in class
Assignment 5 [pdf] - Due 10/18 in class
- Note that you must also email me a completion code to get full credit in this assignment.