Teaching Music Through Composition: A Curriculum Using Technology

Contents

• Introductory material
• Introduction to Music Composition
• 1. Tour of the Software for Music Creation
• (a) Lesson: Creating Software Instrument Track
• (b) Lesson: Tour of the Loops Library
• 2. Using Loops
• (a) Lesson: Creating Melodies with Loops
• (b) Lesson: Understanding Song (AB) Form
• (c) Lesson/Project: Creating a Piece Using the Software's Prerecorded Loops in AB Song Form
• 3. Recording Drum Tracks
• (a) Lesson: Understanding Rhythmic Notation with Rhythm States
• (b) Lesson: Reading Graphic Rhythms with Rhythm States
• (c) Lesson: Rhythm Dictations
• (d) Lesson: Drum Beats
• 4. Composing Drum & Percussion Beats
• (a) Lesson/Project: Composing Drum & Percussion Beats
• 5. Writing Melodies
• (a) Lesson: Understanding the Piano Keyboard
• (b) Lesson: Melodic Dictations
• (c) Lesson: Evaluating Melodies
• (d) Lesson: Composing a Melody in D Dorian
• 6. Melodic Variations Using Rhythmic Alterations
• (a) Lesson: Melodic Fragments, Rhythmic Augmentation, And Rhythmic Diminution
• 7. Creating More Variations
• (a) Lesson: Manually Changing the Pitch Level of Regions
• 8. Composing with Original Regions
• (a) Lesson/Project: D Melody Piece in Modified Sonata Allegro Form
• 9. The Sound FX Piece
• (a) Lesson: The Sound FX Piece: How Ideas Evolve Over Time
• (b) Lesson: The Sound FX Project: Creating Two Dimensional Sound Image & Creating Sonic Space
• (c) Lesson: Using Reverb to Create Three Dimensional Space
• 10. Basic Keyboard Theory
• (a) Lesson: Whole & Half steps
• (b) Lesson: Generic Intervals Lesson Plan
• (c) Lesson: Basic Keyboard Theory: Understanding Major Scales
• 11. MIDI Remix
• (a) Lesson Plan: Analyzing a Remix 1
• (b) Lesson Plan: Analyzing a Remix 2
• (c) Lesson Plan: MIDI Remix
• 12. More Rhythms
• (a) Lesson Plan: More Rhythms
• (b) Rhythmic Improvisation
• 13. Dictations
• (a) Lesson Plan: Melodic Dictations
• 14. Melody Writing Drills
• (a) Creating Melodic Motives Lesson Plan
• (b) Lesson Plan: Motive Variations
• (c) Lesson Plan: Motive in Sequence
• (d) Lesson Plan: Improvising Melodies
• 15. More Melody Writing Drills
• (a) Lesson Plan: Compose to a Given Rhythm (Rhythmic Continuity)
• 16. Melody Forms
• (a) Lesson Plan: Question & Answer
• (b) Lesson Plan: AB Tonic/Dominant
• (c) Lesson Plan: Rondo
• 17. The Ringtone Project
• (a) Lesson Plan: The Ringtone Project
• 18. More Basic Keyboard Theory
• (a) Lesson Plan: Major & Minor Thirds
• (b) Lesson Plan: Understanding Triad Qualities
• (c) Lesson Plan: Building Triads on Scale Degrees
• 19. Chord Progressions
• (a) Lesson Plan: Basic Chord Progressions
• (b) Lesson Plan: Twelve Bar Blues
• (c) Lesson Plan: Given Chord Progressions from the Simple Map
• (d) Lesson Plan: Common Chord Progressions Not on the Simple Map
• 20. Accompaniment Patterns
• (a) Lesson Plan: Accompaniment Patterns
• 21. Putting it Together
• (a) Lesson Plan: Composing Four-Measure Melodies
• (b) Lesson Plan: Drone
• (c) Lesson Plan: Generic Parallel Intervals
• (d) Lesson Plan: Counter Melody
• (e) Lesson Plan: Adding Chords
• (f) Lesson Plan: Understanding Bass Notes
• (g) Lesson Plan: Creating a Bass Line Part 1
• (h) Lesson Plan: Creating Bass Line Part 2: Root and Fifth
• (i) Lesson Plan: Adding Drums and Syncing the Bass
• 22. Melody
• (a) Lesson Plan: Melodic Non-chord Tones
• 23. Composing Instrumental Music for Live Performance
• (a) Lesson Plan: Solo Flute or Violin Piece Project
• 24. The Art Project: Rondo Form
• (a) Lesson Plan: The Art Project: Rondo Form
• 25. Introducing Audio and Audio Editing
• (a) Lesson Plan: The Speech Project
• (b) EQ
• 26. More Advanced Audio
• (a) Lesson Plan: The Radio Commercial Project
• (b) Lesson Plan: The Podcast
• 27. Aural Reporting
• (a) Lesson Plan: Aural Reporting
• 28. Music for Video
• (a) Lesson Plan: Music for Video
• Appendix
• Reading Rhythms with Rhythm States
• Piano Supplement Printed Material
• Piano Supplement Video Lessons
• Index