2 Wednesday

Goals:

ID and spell more complicated/difficult intervals above a note, e.g. if the bottom note does not have a major scale Spelling intervals below a given note Identifying and spelling intervals via inversions Identifying and spelling intervals via white-key intervals (if time)

• Go over exams if you didn’t have time Monday
  • spots that your class had the most trouble with;
  • importance of memorizing key signatures from here on out
• Review and do more difficult intervals (e.g. those that start on a note that is not a M scale) thinking of the M scale of the same note name, then modifying
  • go over HW from Monday in class--students correct each other or their own HW
    • if you assign
  • what to do when the note above
• Spelling intervals below a given note
  • still think of M scale of bottom note to figure out the initial quality, but to get the desired quality, you modify the bottom note to make the interval smaller or larger
• Interval inversions
  • Analyze generic sizes of intervals above, then below C; show how 2s invert to 7s, etc., and how M inverts to m; P stays P
    • Sing Major interval song from low and high Do
    • construct inversion charts:
    • generic size adds up to 9
      • 2<-->7
      • 3<-->6
      • 4<-->5
    • quality inverts to opposites (I draw a line through the P to show a “plane of inversion”)
      P m M d A
  • Practice spelling intervals below a given note through inversion
    • Do the major-scale method, but after figuring out the inversion
• IF TIME–10 minutes or more: (if not, do on Friday) Alternate ways to ID and spell intervals
  • White-key intervals (memorize m2s, M3s, A4, and do the rest through inversion/modifying those)
  • Show them the counting half steps part of the book and have them circle the ‘(this method is slow and full of errors)’ part, and cross that table out in their book. :-)
  • Descending intervals: if the interval fits in the major scale of the top note, all intervals will be m/P; modify from there

Homework for Friday:

Workbook 6.3 I. A and B (odds or evens only?), 6.4 I, II (maybe also odds or evens only?)