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Music Technology II (SCP) 812
Seventh Chords


TIME FRAME: 1 week
GRADE: 9-12
CONTACT:


         MAP LEVEL:
01.2 THE ARTS - MUSIC

01.2.4.0.2 -- Students will create and arrange short songs and instrumental pieces within specified guidelines

01.2.4.0.3 -- Students will use a variety of sound sources when composing.

01.2.5.0.1 -- Students will read whole, half, dotted half, quarter and eighth notes and rests in 2/4, 3/4, and 4/4 meter signatures

01.2.5.0.2 -- Students will use a system (that is, syllables, numbers or letters) to read simple pitch notation in the treble clef in major keys

01.2.5.5.1 -- Students will read whole, half, quarter, eighth, sixteenth and dotted notes and rests in 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 6/8, 3/8, and alla breve meter signatures

01.2.5.5.4 -- Students will use standard notation to record their musical ideas and the musical ideas of others

01.2 THE ARTS - MUSIC

01.2.6.9.2 -- Students will demonstrate extensive knowledge of the technical vocabulary of music

01.2.6.5.1 -- Students will describe specific music events in a given aural example, using appropriate terminology



What are the different types of seventh chords?
What are the different sounds of a seventh chord?
How does a seventh chord function harmonically?




Students will learn about the structure, function and resolution of seventh chords built upon the second, fifth and seventh scale degrees.




The student will:
* Identify seventh chords built upon the second, fifth and seventh scale degree and determine their quality.
*demonstrate an understanding of how to correctly resolve a seventh chord
*Analyze seventh chords with in musical examples
*Compose harmonic progressions incorporating seventh chords.



*Visual identification of all types of seventh chords via written work and
Music Lessons II computer drills.
*Aural identification of all types of seventh chords via class discussions and
Music Lessons II computer drills.
*Written composition incorporating seventh chords with correct resolution.
*Inputting composition into FINALE music notation program



Students will be assessed for this unit via:
*Music Lessons II drills
*Written Quizzes and tests
*Class participation
*Written homework
*Composition