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*Focus on: MM, Mm, mm, dm, dd, mM chords.
*Focus on: MM, Mm, mm, dm, dd, mM chords.
*Student will be able to derive seventh chords from a major and minor scale.
*Student will be able to derive seventh chords from a major and minor scale.
*Student will be able to notate 7th chords in various notations (figured bass or lead sheet notations).
*Student will be able to notate 7th chords in various notations (figured bass or lead sheet notation).


==Resources==
==Resources==


==== Readings ====
* OpenMusicTheory: [http://openmusictheory.com/triads.html Triads & Seventh Chords]
* MusicTheory.Net Tutorial:
** Seventh Chords [https://www.musictheory.net/lessons/45 Part 1], [https://www.musictheory.net/lessons/48 Part 2]
** [https://www.musictheory.net/lessons/47 Seventh Chord Inversion]
* Teoria.com Tutorial:
** [https://www.teoria.com/en/tutorials/chords/08-sevenths.php Seventh Chords]
* ''Music Theory for Musicians and Normal People:''
** [https://tobyrush.com/theorypages/pdf/en-us/diatonic-seventh-chords.pdf Diatonic Seventh Chords]
* ''How Music Works:''
** [https://www.howmusicworks.org/702/Playing-with-Chords/Chord-Inversions 7.2 Chord Inversion]
** [https://www.howmusicworks.org/701/Playing-with-Chords/Alternate-Chord-Symbols 7.3 Alternate Chord Symbols]
** [https://www.howmusicworks.org/703/Playing-with-Chords/Slash-Chord-Notation 7.4 Slash Chord Notation]
* Hutchinson, ''Music Theory for the 21st Century Classroom''
** [http://musictheory.pugetsound.edu/mt21c/SeventhChordsIntroduction.html Chapter 8.1: Introduction to Seventh Chords]
** [http://musictheory.pugetsound.edu/mt21c/FiguredBassInversionSymbols.html Chapter 16.2: Figured Bass Inversion Symbols]
** [http://musictheory.pugetsound.edu/mt21c/FiguredBassAdditionalInformation.html Chapter 16.5: Additional Information]
* Tobey, ''A Feeling for Harmony'': [http://legacy.earlham.edu/~tobeyfo/musictheory/Book1/FFH1_CH6/6D_FiguredBassChordInve.html Figured Bass Chord Inversions]
* ''Music Notes Now'': [https://www.musicnotes.com/now/tips/a-complete-guide-to-chord-symbols-in-music/ A Complete Guide to Chord Symbols]
==== Tools ====
* [https://www.teoria.com/en/tutorials/chords/10-const.php Teoria.com Chord Constructor]
* [https://www.teoria.com/en/tutorials/chords/11-geom.php Teoria.com Geometrical Chord Constructor]


==Class Activities==
==Class Activities==
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*Writing seventh chords
*Writing seventh chords
*Identifying seventh chords
*Identifying seventh chords
==== Drills ====
* Teoria.com
** [https://www.teoria.com/en/exercises/c4i.php Seventh Chord Identification]
** [https://www.teoria.com/en/exercises/c4sc.php Seventh Chord Construction from Chord Symbol]
** [https://www.teoria.com/en/exercises/c4c.php Seventh Chord Construction]
* Musictheory.net
** [https://www.musictheory.net/exercises/chord-construction Chord Construction]
** [https://www.musictheory.net/exercises/chord Chord Identification]


==Notes==
==Notes==

Revision as of 17:54, 30 July 2020

This lesson is part of the Fundamentals of Twelve-Tone Equal Temperament category.

Objectives

  • Students will be able to construct any type of seventh chord with a given note as root, third, fifth, or seventh.
  • Students will be able to invert any type of seventh chord with a given note as root, third, fifth, or seventh.
  • Focus on: MM, Mm, mm, dm, dd, mM chords.
  • Student will be able to derive seventh chords from a major and minor scale.
  • Student will be able to notate 7th chords in various notations (figured bass or lead sheet notation).

Resources

Readings

Tools

Class Activities

  • Discussion and definition of seventh chord types including classical and lead sheet naming conventions
  • Construction and performance of a given seventh chord

Assignments

  • Writing seventh chords
  • Identifying seventh chords

Drills

Notes