Dalcroze Musical Arts

Starts Tuesday September 12, 2023

Runs for 28 Sessions ending in May 2024

AD Advanced Placement II:

Rhythm Skills

• Complete Review of AP I
• Complex Meters with all beat values through the 2nd Subdivision and the 2nd Multiple
• Conducting, articulating, and dictating rhythms in Duple, Triple, and Quadruple Meters (Simple, Compound, and Complex)
• Beat equals Beat and Division equals Division Metric changes
• Improvisation of rhythmic patterns
• Dictation of intermediate level rhythmic patterns and phrases

Solfège and Harmony Skills

• Complete Review of AP I
• Chord quality and function along with Chord descriptors
• All varieties of triads and their inversions (sung and written)
• All varieties of 7th chords and their inversions (sung and written)
• Sight-singing that includes more leaps, including arpeggiation of the tonic, the dominant, and intermediate harmonies. We sing using scale degree numbers for function and letter names for pitch.
• Intermediate Harmonic Analysis using Roman Numeral and Figured Bass
• Intermediate harmonization techniques and chord progressions including progressions of descending 5ths, 3rds, and some sequences.
• Harmonic function as passing chords, neighbor chords, pedal chords, arpeggiated chords, and use of the cadential 6-4
• Realization of a Figured Bass and/or Roman Numeral Analysis in 4 part chorale style
• Improvisation of melodic patterns and motifs
• Basic analysis of more advanced forms: Rounded Binary forms, Rondo forms, Sonata Rondo forms
• Non-harmonic tones: Analysis, Dictation, and Notation of
• Passing Tones
• Neighbor Tones (complete and incomplete, chromatic and diatonic, double)
• Escape Tones
• Appoggiaturas
• Changing Tones
• Cambiata
• Trills and Turns
• Suspensions (4-3, 7-6, 9-8)
• Retardations
• Anticipations