MUSC 105

Introduction to Major Scales (pdf file)

LECTURE: Memorizing and Recognizing Major Scales (3 1/2 min.) player (cc and searchable) | mp4 | wmv (cc) | transcript

Practice: Scales (teoria website) Be sure to double click Major Scales so that only the majors scales are tested.

Be sure to enlarge the figures in this quiz! You will not be able to see the staff lines otherwise.

Need more practice? Go to http://www.teoria.com/en/exercises/ii.php. Set the intervals to major 2 and minor 2 only. A major 2nd is a whole step, a minor 2nd is a half step.

Scale Degrees of the Diatonic Scale (m24691)

LECTURE: Scale Degrees (3 min.) player (cc and searchable) | mp4 | wmv (cc) | transcript

Further Explanation of Scale Degrees

Tutorial on scale degrees (musictheory.net website)

Organizing your personal Dropbox folder

Please see this webpage for where to place new files, old files, and screen shots of your tests and exams.

Catherine Schmidt-Jones. "Major Key Signatures." Music Fundamentals 1, Chapter 7.

Tutorial on key signatures (musictheory.net website)

Practice: Key Signatures Treble Clef (musictheory.net website)

Catherine Schmidt-Jones. "Major Keys and Scales." Music Fundamentals 1, Chapter 8.

Tutorial on Major Scales (musictheory.net website)

Tutorial on scales (teoria website)

Most musicians memorize the circle of 5ths, which is an arrangement of all of the major (and minor) keys. You don't need to memorize this for the course, but you might find it useful for the major scale quiz. It will give you a quick reference to each tonic and its key signature.

Wikipedia. "Circle of 5ths"--view the beginning chart and text only.

Catherine Schmidt-Jones. "Circle of 5ths." Music Fundamentals 1, Chapter 11.

Review Quizzes Quiz preparation for Test 2. 

Key Signature Practice

Scale and Key Signature Practice

These quizzes may be taken as many times as you like. These are in the new HTML5 format.

More key signature practice. link

Note Identification. This test has 20 questions, timed at 15 minutes. You may submit this test only once--the first submission will count for your grade. Test 2 link

REVIEW LECTURE: Save Test or Exam Results (1 min.) into your Dropbox folder. player | mp4 | webpage

REVIEW LECTURE: MuseScore Composition 1A Demonstration (14 1/2 min.) player (cc, searchable) | mp4 | wmv (cc) | Transcript

LECTURE: MuseScore Composition 1B Demonstration (13 min.) player (cc, searchable) | mp4 | wmv (cc) | Transcript

chord chart

LECTURE: Hearing a single instrument in Musescore (2 min.) player | mp4 | wmv | mov

Files for Analysis 1 (review all three).

• BrownSusan_Comp0.mscz
• KramerMelissa_Comp0.mscz
• RidgeJason_Comp0.mscz

Review this file carefully. Print out the instructions and rubric.

Here is the chord chart, which you will use to match melody notes with the harmony:

chord chart