Teaching Music Through Composition: A Curriculum Using Technology

This book is a full multimedia curriculum that contains over 60 Lesson Plans in 29 Units of Study, Student Assignments Sheets, Worksheets, Handouts, Audio and MIDI files to teach a wide array of musical topics, including: general/basic music theory, music appreciation and analysis, keyboarding, composing/arranging, even ear-training (aural theory) using technology.

Cover -- Contents -- About the Companion Website -- Introduction -- PART I: INTRODUCTION TO MUSIC COMPOSITION -- 1 Tour of the Software for Music Creation -- Lesson 1a: Creating Software Instrument Tracks -- Lesson 1b: Tour of the Loops Library -- 2 Using Loops -- Lesson 2a: Creating Melodies with Loops -- Lesson 2b: Understanding Song (AB) Form -- Lesson/Project 2c: Creating a Piece Using the Software's Prerecorded Loops in AB Song Form -- 3 Recording Drum Tracks -- Lesson 3a: Understanding Rhythmic Notation with Rhythm States -- Lesson 3b: Reading Graphic Rhythms with Rhythm States -- Lesson 3c: Rhythm Dictations -- Lesson 3d: Drum Beats -- 4 Composing Drum and Percussion Beats -- Lesson 4: Drum Beats Project -- 5 Writing Melodies -- Lesson 5a: Understanding the Piano Keyboard -- Lesson 5b: Melodic Dictations -- Lesson 5c: Evaluating Melodies -- Lesson 5d: Composing a Melody in D Dorian -- 6 Melodic Variations Using Rhythmic Alterations -- Lesson 6: Melodic Fragments, Rhythmic Augmentation, and Rhythmic Diminution -- 7 Creating More Variations -- Lesson 7: Manually Changing the Pitch Level of a Region -- 8 Composing with Original Regions -- Lesson/Project 8: D Melody Piece in Modified Sonata Allegro Form -- PART II: DEVELOPING BASIC MUSICAL SKILLS -- 9 The Sound FX Piece -- Lesson 9a: How Ideas Evolve over Time -- Lesson 9b: Creating Two-Dimensional Sound Images and Sonic Space -- Lesson 9c: Using Reverb to Create Three-Dimensional Space -- 10 Basic Keyboard Theory -- Lesson 10a: Whole and Half Steps -- Lesson 10b: Understanding Basic Generic Intervals -- Lesson 10c: Understanding Major Scales -- 11 MIDI Remix -- Lesson 11a: Analyzing a Remix 1 -- Lesson 11b: Analyzing a Remix 2 -- Lesson 11c: MIdI Remix -- 12 More Rhythms -- Lesson 12a: Eighth and Sixteenth Combinations -- Lesson 12b: Rhythmic Improvisation: Call and Response -- 13 Dictation.

Cover; Contents; About the Companion Website; Introduction; PART I: INTRODUCTION TO MUSIC COMPOSITION; 1 Tour of the Software for Music Creation; Lesson 1a: Creating Software Instrument Tracks; Lesson 1b: Tour of the Loops Library; 2 Using Loops; Lesson 2a: Creating Melodies with Loops; Lesson 2b: Understanding Song (AB) Form; Lesson/Project 2c: Creating a Piece Using the Software's Prerecorded Loops in AB Song Form; 3 Recording Drum Tracks; Lesson 3a: Understanding Rhythmic Notation with Rhythm States; Lesson 3b: Reading Graphic Rhythms with Rhythm States; Lesson 3c: Rhythm Dictations

Lesson 3d: Drum Beats4 Composing Drum and Percussion Beats; Lesson 4: Drum Beats Project; 5 Writing Melodies; Lesson 5a: Understanding the Piano Keyboard; Lesson 5b: Melodic Dictations; Lesson 5c: Evaluating Melodies; Lesson 5d: Composing a Melody in D Dorian; 6 Melodic Variations Using Rhythmic Alterations; Lesson 6: Melodic Fragments, Rhythmic Augmentation, and Rhythmic Diminution; 7 Creating More Variations; Lesson 7: Manually Changing the Pitch Level of a Region; 8 Composing with Original Regions; Lesson/Project 8: D Melody Piece in Modified Sonata Allegro Form

PART II: DEVELOPING BASIC MUSICAL SKILLS9 The Sound FX Piece; Lesson 9a: How Ideas Evolve over Time; Lesson 9b: Creating Two-Dimensional Sound Images and Sonic Space; Lesson 9c: Using Reverb to Create Three-Dimensional Space; 10 Basic Keyboard Theory; Lesson 10a: Whole and Half Steps; Lesson 10b: Understanding Basic Generic Intervals; Lesson 10c: Understanding Major Scales; 11 MIDI Remix; Lesson 11a: Analyzing a Remix 1; Lesson 11b: Analyzing a Remix 2; Lesson 11c: MIdI Remix; 12 More Rhythms; Lesson 12a: Eighth and Sixteenth Combinations; Lesson 12b: Rhythmic Improvisation: Call and Response

13 DictationLesson 13: Melodic Dictations; 14 Melody Writing Drills; Lesson 14a: Creating Melodic Motives; Lesson 14b: Motive Variations; Lesson 14c: Motive Sequences; Lesson 14d: Improvising Melodies; 15 More Melody Writing Drills; Lesson 15: Compose to a Given Rhythm; 16 Melody Forms; Lesson 16a: Question-and-Answer Form; Lesson 16b: AB Tonic/Dominant; Lesson 16c: Rondo; 17 Ringtone Project; Lesson 17: The Ringtone Project; 18 More Basic Keyboard Theory; Lesson 18a: Major and Minor Thirds; Lesson 18b: Understanding Triad Qualities; Lesson 18c: Building Triads on Scale Degrees

19 Chord ProgressionsLesson 19a: Basic Chord Progressions; Lesson 19b: Twelve-Bar Blues; Lesson 19c: Given Chord Progressions from the Simple Chord Map; Lesson 19d: Common Chord Progressions Not on the Simple Chord Map; 20 Accompaniment Patterns; Lesson 20: Accompaniment Patterns; 21 Putting It Together; Lesson 21a: Composing Four-Measure Melodies; Lesson 21b: Drone; Lesson 21c: Generic Parallel Intervals; Lesson 21d: Countermelody; Lesson 21e: Adding Chords; Lesson 21f: Understanding Bass Notes; Lesson 21g: Creating Bass Lines from Roots; Lesson 21h: Creating Bass Lines from Roots and Fifths