Music Theory Powerpoint for Part Writing

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Question for the Class

Here's a question for everyone to mull over a wee bit - which came first, the chicken or the egg?

Homework for 9/15/11

Hey class! Tomorrow for homework, practice sections 4.21-4.23 for aural skills class and do pages 30 and 35 in your theory book.

We will go over major scales, the minors that relate to them, and the different modes of minor keys.

Key Signatures

Hello class! Today we worked on being able to identify and memorize key signatures in both major and minor. REMEMBER YOUR VOCABULARY FROM EARLIER, IT WILL HELP! Here is the circle of 5ths for you visual learners:

There are several different ways you can remember them (I will cover only major scales for now - minor, we will discuss in class tomorrow so we can go over the different modes):

Major (sharp)

C - Catholic

G - Gods

D - Don't

A - Always

E - Eat

B - Berries

F# - From

C# - Church

Major (flat)

C - Crazy

F - Fat

Bb - Brats

Eb - Eat

Ab - All

Db - Delicious

Gb - Gooey

Cb - Candy

Note: Remember that notes go from A-G then repeat again in a different octave, there is no H note!